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Popcorn Double Feature
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2002 5:59 am
by mdenger
Here's my latest page about the Searchers first single from 1967 Popcorn
Double Feature. Not so much material this time but worth visiting anyway:
http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~mdenger/
Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 11:20 am
by david
You didn't mention who wrote this one.Was this a Searchers'composition?Not a bad song .I'd call this folk pop, sort of a rung below the slightly more serious folk rock bands.Many of the 60's groups felt the need to come out with "messages" as the 60's progressed,titles like It's Good News Week and Everyone's Gone To The Moon come to mind though the topic would be a study in itself.Throw in the strident strings a la "I am The Walrus" and immediately you knew something really heavy was going down. Wasn't the song covered later.How did that fare?
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2002 1:12 am
by royclough
Song was written by Weiss/English the latter being I believe Scott English an American who scored a hit in Britain in 71, with a song called Brandy later redone as Mandy by Barry Manilow.
Song was covered in the 80's by The Fall, whose version I have never heard.
Weiss, who's forename is Barry I think, also co-wrote one of my favourite Searchers tracks "Does She Really Care For Me" featured on the final album for PYE.
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2002 10:06 am
by sjd37
Roy: I think his name is Larry, actually. This team also wrote "Bend Me, Shape Me" by The American Breed and "In The Cold Light Of Day" by Gene Pitney. I always thought those two songs, as well as "Popcorn," were simply okay, not great. "Does She Really Care For Me" is better.
English also had a slow, haunting doo-wop number on the American charts in '64: "High On A Hill," featuring a group called The Accents on backup vocals.
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2002 12:06 pm
by royclough
Many thanks for Info SJ