Meet The Searchers

Meet the Searchers
Studio album by The Searchers
Released	August 1963
Recorded	1963
Genre	Rock/Pop, Merseybeat
Length	30:06 (1963 LP) 38:32 (2001 CD Reissue)
Label	Pye
Producer	Tony Hatch
The Searchers chronology
Meet the Searchers (1963) Sugar and Spice (1963)
Singles from Meet the Searchers
"Sweets for My Sweet" Released: June 1963 "Love Potion No. 9" Released: 1964 (USA)

Meet the Searchers is a 1963 album by English rock band, The Searchers. The album featured their first single released in June 1963, a version of The Drifters' "Sweets for My Sweet", as well as their version of The Clovers "Love Potion No. 9", released as a single the following year. It peaked on the US charts at # 22 on December 19, 1964.^[1]

Personnel

• Tony Jackson, lead singer and bass guitar
• Chris Curtis, drummer and vocalist
• Michael Pender lead guitar and vocalist
• John McNally, rhythm guitar and vocalist

Track listing

Side 1
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sweets for My Sweet"	Doc Pomus/Mort Shuman	2:28
2.	"Alright"	Ross/Vanador	2:09
3.	"Love Potion No. 9"	Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller	2:05
4.	"Farmer John"	Harris/Terry	1:59
5.	"Stand By Me"	King/Leiber/Stoller	3:28
6.	"Money (That's What I Want)"	Bradford/Gordy	2:47

Side 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
7.	"Da Doo Ron Ron"	Phil Spector/Jeff Barry/Ellie Greenwich	2:25
8.	"Ain't Gonna Kiss Ya"	Smith	2:05
9.	"Since You Broke My Heart"	Don Everly/Phil Everly	2:50
10.	"Tricky Dicky"	Leiber/Stoller	2:08
11.	"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"	Pete Seeger	2:57
12.	"Twist and Shout"	Medley/Russell	2:45

2001 Reissue Bonus Tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
13.	"It's All Been a Dream"	Curtis	1:49
14.	"Geld (Das Ist, Was Ich Wünsche) ("Money (That's What I Want)" in German)"	Bradford/Gordy (Translator unknown)	2:46
15.	"Landwirt John ("Farmer John" in German)"	Harris/Terry (Translator unknown)	2:00
16.	"Mais C'Était Un Rêve ("It's All Been A Dream" in French)"	Curtis (Translator unknown)	1:51

References

1. ^ Whitburn, Joel. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits: Revised and Enlarged, Billboard Books, New York, 1992