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Post by moorlock2003 on Jan 5, 2024 3:22:22 GMT
My ultimate “Best of”
1. I Want Candy (US stereo version) Brian Poole +
2. Uncle Willie (US stereo version) Brian Poole +
3. Suddenly Winter
4. Sing Sorta Swingle (US version, mono)
5. What a state I’m In
6. Suddenly You Love Me
7. I’m with you all the way
8. Let Your Hair Hang Down
9. When I’m with her
10. Norman Stanley James Saint Clare
11. Call Me Number One
12. Here Comes My Baby
13. Willy & The Hand Jive
14. Girl From Nowhere
15. Helule Helule
16. I’ll see you there
17. Me and My Life
18. Such a Happy Song
19. Even the bad times are good
20. Silence is golden
21. Someone someone Brian Poole +
22. Time is on my side. Brian Poole +
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Post by peterc on Jan 5, 2024 8:04:35 GMT
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Post by moorlock2003 on Jan 5, 2024 13:19:24 GMT
My Searchers Top 22: 1. Everybody come clap your hands 2. I Can Tell 3. Bumble Bee 4. Crazy Dreams 5. I Pretend I’m with You 6. Needles & Pins 7. Don’t You Know Why 8. I’m Ready 9. He’s Got No Love 10. Desdemona 11. This kind of love affair 12. Cherry Stones 13. What have they done to the rain? 14. Twist and Shout 15. Ain’t that Just Like Me 16. Don’t Throw Your Love Away 17. September Gurls 18. Don’t Shut me out 19. Love Potion Number Nine 20. Sweets for my sweet 21. Hungry for love 22. Something you got I would have included “When You walk in the room” and “ Have you ever loved somebody?” but I prefer the versions by Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas and The Hollies respectively. |
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Post by moorlock2003 on Jan 5, 2024 20:53:28 GMT
All Tremeloes LPs released in the US were released in both mono and electronic stereo with the exception of the last LP, “ World Explosion”, which is true stereo. The Brian Poole & The Tremeloes” LP on Audio Fidelity sounds punchier in the electronically rechannelled stereo version. The “ Suddenly You Love Me” rechannelled to simulate stereo version does a good job of doing just that, although it’s tinny sounding. Interestingly, Epic released “ World Explosion” as a mono promo only. None of the US stereo LPs mentioned on the covers that they were in fact rechannelled stereo.
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Post by anthony on Jan 5, 2024 21:28:53 GMT
Hi Moorlock,
My favourite searchers song by a country mile is
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Post by baz on Jan 5, 2024 23:48:15 GMT
I regard The Searchers highly. Of all the Merseybeat era groups apart from the obvious one, they seemed to move with the times better than the rest. Much as I love The Swinging Blue Jeans, some of the material they were cutting in 1966 was absurdly archaic for that time... "This Boy" is a terrific song but sounded "old" in 1966 and they didn't add anything to it whereas I like their take on "Do You Believe In Magic?" As Wally Ridley lamented years later, their biggest problem was lack of original material. Gerry and The Pacemakers were pretty much finished as their final album was pretty much a showcase, grooming Gerry Marsden for a solo career so was rather MOR and cabaret in places which was sad and strange as Gerry had proved himself to be a capable songwriter. The Searchers were still releasing good material that fitted in with the changing times as their 1966 and 1967 singles proved but seems they too lacked confidence in their own material having to find outside material which they did really well. I love their take on "Have You Ever Loved Somebody?" which is way superior to the bombastic version Chris Curtis did with the Ryans. Then there was that remarkable Sire era where they reinvented themselves credibly... there were some great songs in there and they were frankly one of the last groups one would expect to go in that direction AND pull it off. When one considers during the same period The Hollies did the calculator and Buddy Holly albums, one feels sadness and frustration that The Hollies didn't go in a similar route to The Searchers... the albums would have been much livelier for a start! Just a pity that commercially it didn't do the trick for The Searchers as maybe had those albums and singles sold, it might had set them up for the 1980's and prevented the disaster that came when Mike Pender quit the band by which time they had lapsed back into "oldies band" mode.
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Post by Stranger on Jan 6, 2024 12:37:10 GMT
I always think The Searchers had a bit of class about them but somehow had no edge at all. Maybe they lacked natural songwriters too.
I really like some of their later material like Second Hand Dealer and Umbrella Man. They certainly progressed a bit if not a lot. Psychedelic Searchers in Kaftans seems unthinkable.
The Sire material is very good too.
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Post by peterc on Jan 6, 2024 14:13:55 GMT
Psychedelic Searchers in Kaftans seems unthinkable. Very true, but it's even more unthinkable to imagine (say) Gerry Marsden or Brian Poole in a kaftan!  |
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