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The Searchers' 40th Anniversary Collection is to be released on June 2, 2003. The CD cover is great and displays a Rickenbacker Model 360/12.



THE SEARCHERS 40th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION

CD1
Sweets For My Sweet (Iron Door)
All My Sorrows (Iron Door)
Let’s Stomp (Iron Door)
Sick And Tired (Star-Club)
Sweet Nothin’s (Star-Club)
Rosalie (Star-Club)
Sweets For My Sweet (PYE)
Ain’t Gonna Kiss Ya (PYE)
Farmer John (PYE)
Sugar And Spice (PYE)
Some Other Guy (PYE)
Needles And Pins (PYE)
Saturday Night Out (PYE)
Ain’t That Just Like Me (PYE)
Don’t Throw Your Love Away (PYE)
Sea Of Heartbreak (PYE)
Some Day We’re Gonna Love Again (PYE)
When You Walk In The Room (PYE)
Love Potion No 9 (PYE)
What Have They Done To The Rain (PYE)
Blowin’ In The Wind (BBC)
Memphis Tennessee (BBC)
The System (PYE)
Goodbye My Love (PYE)
Everbody Come And Clap Your Hands (PYE)
I Don’t Want To Go On Without You (PYE)
Bumble Bee (PYE)
He’s Got No Love (PYE)
When I Get Home (PYE)
Take Me For What I’m Worth (PYE)
Four Strong Winds (PYE)
Each Time (PYE)

CD2
Take It Or Leave It (PYE)
Have You Ever Loved Somebody (PYE)
Popcorn Double Feature
Western Union (PYE)
Second Hand Dealer (PYE)
Umbrella Man (Liberty)
Somebody Shot The Lollipop Man (Liberty)
Shoot ‘Em Up Baby (Liberty)
Kinky Kathy Abernathy (Liberty)
For What It’s Worth (Liberty) previously unreleased
Desdemona (RCA)
Vahevela (RCA)
Solitaire (RCA)
Spicks And Specks (RCA)
Hearts In Her Eyes (SIRE)
Love’s Melody (SIRE)
Almost Saturday Night (SIRE)
Everything But A Heartbeat (SIRE)
I Don’t Want To Be The One (PRT) original single mix
Hollywood (PRT)
Innocent Victim (PRT)
Forever In Love (Coconut)
Somebody Told Me You Were Crying (Coconut)
Needles And Pins [1988 Remix] (Coconut)

I am wondering what happened to "I Pretend I'm With You" and "No One Else Could Love Me." I am surprised that they are not here, particularly seeing as this is the fortieth anniversary and these two songs are original compositions by The Searchers.

Till I Met You in my view is the surprise exclusion,
one appreciates though all of us who contribute to this site ,
will have our own opinions on what tracks should have been on.
Great cover though, will appeal in particular to Peter no doubt.

It is a great cover and I agree completely that "Till I Met You" should have been on the CD. You are spot on as the cover holds great significance for me. It is a fine advertisement for Rickenbacker and The Searchers. So, who chose the songs Tim, and why did "Till I Met You", "I Pretend I'm With You" and "No One Else Could Love Me," not make the cut?

All the mentioned songs are available on other CDs currently available from Castle. This compilation was always going to be a compromise. It had to have the big hits and it had to represent all phases of The Searchers career. There will always be discussion as to which tracks should have been included. The mix of songs had input from John Reed (Castle), Roger Dopson and myself. If three others compilers had been involved, then I have no doubt that the track listing would have been different.

Tim

Off top of my head, For What It's Worth and Memphis(BBC Session) are the only tracks not to have ever been issued, Memphis does appear on Swedish Radio Sessions. Is there still a possibility of unreleased stuff appearing on any further releases or is this it. I know there is other stuff but getting the rights may no doubt have been difficult. Pity PRT shelved the proposed album for which some tracks were recorded, "Innocent Victim" would have been a fine follow up to "I don't want to be the one2.

Roy: Not to worry. They will be able to add tracks such as "Innocent Victim" to their 50th Annniversary Edition.

Said in jest no doubt but don't discount it, I could never have believed when I bought that first single in 63, as described on Clough Links - Take It Or Leave It, that I would still be going to see them AND discussing them more than ever 40 years later.

I couldn't agree more. I am amazed that The Searchers are still performing and even more amazed that I enjoy their music today as much as I did when I heard "Needles and Pins" for the first time.

The impressions The Searchers had on us during our adolescent years was destined to last forever and I don't think were really knew that at the time.

I would have liked to see "Saints and Searchers" (great guitar break-and left off the 30th CD), "Don't You Know", "Since You Broke My Heart" and "Goodnight Baby" from the PYE stuff, and "Silver", "It's Too Late" and "September Gurls" from the Sire CDs. I could have done without "let's Stomp", "Saturday Night Out", "The System", and "Everybody Come and Clap Your Hands" (if they wanted a Frank lead, I would have gone with his version of "Does She Really Care for Me")

I am equally puzzled by the omissions already alluded to, especially "Til I Met You"

John: Very nicely done. Your comments, to me at least, emphasize two points. To begin, the awareness of songs left out of this release depends on the favourites of the beholder. Moreoever, this 40th Anniversay CD, could well have been three discs.

Tim, was a three CD set an option or even considered? I realize that there is a tremendous amount of planning and preparation for a release such as this. Nontheless, why not one
"definitive" everything including the kitchen sink set? Was a three CD venture too risky or cost prohibitive?

At one stage two double-CD releases were being considered. In the end, as I said before, it was all about compromise. And the budget was also a factor in this compromise. I wanted all the Liberty recordings to be re-mastered for this CD as they are the only recordings not be be so treated.

John

I would say it's Chris Curtis on "Does She Really Care For Me" what does the crew think

Roy,

I got the impression (somewhere) that there's two versions- with Chris on one Frank on the other. Anybody have a clue, or am I in the midst of a "Senior Moment"? In either case, I think it should have been in. Come to think of it, I would have liked "You Can't Lie to a Liar", too. Great, and for them, unusual, guitar.

I'll be doggone is the track you are thinking of John, I believe