Very Best of

Searchers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 15, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Castle Us
• ASIN: B0007TFHZM
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #202,347 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sweets for My Sweet

2. Needles and Pins

3. Love Potion No. 9

4. Don't Throw Your Love Away

5. Sugar and Spice

6. When You Walk in the Room

7. Ain't That Just Like Me

8. What Have They Done to the Rain

9. Some Day We're Gonna Love Again

10. Goodbye My Love

11. Bumble Bee

12. He's Got No Love

13. Take Me for What I'm Worth

14. Have You Ever Loved Somebody

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Like the Beatles and the Hollies? Try Out the Searchers for Some More Pleasure of Like Sort!, January 1, 2012

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Gerald Parker "Gerald Parker" (Rouyn-Noranda, QC., Dominion of Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Very Best of (Audio CD)

I listened to this CD, a dual-sided one (issued, at least in Canada, as Silverline Records 284570-2), twice over, shortly after having purchased it. The Searchers, which started off as a skiffle group, were one of the singing quartets that were part of "the British Invasion" ("Merseyside") trend. They recorded more "cover" versions in their output than some of the more influential Merseyside groups, among which the Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, and the Hollies were the most long-lastingly important. However, their vocal blend is as perfect as any of the others; this was a group of real musical quality. The Searchers just didn`t have quite the edge and individuality of musical and verbal inflection (at least in the recording studio) in handling the tunes and words compared to what the real kingpins of Merseyside did with the songs which they recorded, or even compared to the Monkees` way with a song (referring, of course, to the English group of that name, not to the Toronto studio group of similar appellation but of limited renown and of budget label dimestore-targeted sales).

The visual-music side of this disc has nice still images, but really does not add anything essential to what it offers. Get this one if you already have the essential recordings of the Beatles, of the Hollies, and of Gerry and the Pacemakers. You will enjoy it, if you give it a chance.