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hello,
just wanted to ask you another couple of questions which you may known the answers to...
1. The first one is about 'I'll be...', the song from 30th anniversary collection - the songwriting credit goes to the band so a) was it really an original or just a credits misprint and b) if it was an original who is responsible for the lyric?!
2. As you have all been to many Searchers' live shows, have you ever seen them play any of the following songs:
Sounds of silence; Green green grass of home; Wrote a song for everyone; Always on my mind; Great pretender; I can't get enough of you baby; Mad about love; Boat on the river; (A rolling stone) Gathers no moss.
Best regards - Sheena

A guess to 1. would John McNally.
2. Never heard them do any.

Roy,
thanks for your suggestion (mine was the same, to be true, but we'll never know the truth i guess).
Now something more about this song - funny and sad at the same time. Kind of a foreword: my dad was an amateurish record collector back in 60s and i can still remember (from the times i was so young i couldn't even buy milk in stores without parents, not to mention beer) his telling me about an odd 45 RPM he had back then. The A-side was "Barbara Ann" by the Beach Boys and the flipside was a song he was really 'high' about (pardon my poor knowledge of informal English). Of course he had no idea of who it was and what was the song. Yet today when we were hanging round cause of a Father's day or something, i asked if he wanted to hear my favorite song by the Searchers. He agreed and so i played this track to him. What he said was: "That's it. The flipside to 'Barbara Ann'". Weird?
Why is it sad anyway... i was so much interested in this song that i even dared to ask Frank Allen about who wrote it. He couldn't even recall the song. But okay... let it be a mistery.
Crazy little Sheena.