SEARCHERS
A while back I
wrote an article listing the links to all Searchers videos on YouTube, an
internet site that has now become a household name.
It is excellent for
music videos but also some nasty elements to it. However I won’t dwell on that.
My article proved
as much use in the end, as a chocolate fireguard, because whilst waiting to be
published in the Magazine the vast majority of clips were removed due to
infringement of copyright, this only normally happens if a person or organisation
who hold the copyright makes an official complaint.
An almost futile
gesture in some ways as no sooner are they removed then they start to
re-appear.
We all know that
our heroes seem to have no problem with anyone taking photos at concerts in
fact positively encourage it, whereas I came close to getting thrown out of a
Hank Marvin concert because some uniformed usher thought he saw me using a tape
recorder, I was as it happened but frankly it was only to tape little bits of
the show for my own use not for commercial gain, unlike some who tape shows and
then sell the stuff on e-bay or through other channels. The quality of my
recording would have been so poor that the exercise was a waste of time, it was
embarrassing however to be arguing the toss whilst only 4 rows from front and
Hank playing Sleepwalk, I reluctantly gave the tape to the “guards”, mainly
because I was fed up of my wife kicking my chins and muttering she’d never been
so shown up.
Now of course
people use mobile phone, digital cameras to record shows and bang them on
youtube within hours.
Anyway I thought it
may be of some interest to list what is popular on youtube as regards The
Searchers, this time I am not going to give the link but list in order of
popularity, based on number of views a clip has received, the numbers quoted
are based on views as at time of writing.
Asterisk * denotes
fan video whereas, unless stated, clips are from TV shows
I am ignoring clips
that have received less than 500 views otherwise be here forever.
In some cases clips
are merely montages of photos presented as a video to a Searchers track, where
this is case I state so, indeed may I recommend RCPINSA video channel, key RCPINSA
in to youtube search engine.
I have chosen to
ignore clips that feature a Searchers track but the video is nothing to do with
Searchers, it is a cartoon or scenery, in one case clips of Superman film, with
When You Walk In The Room as the background music.
The figure after
description is number of times video has been viewed and there is no truth in
the rumour, as far as I know, that Tim Viney and Wendy Burton are clicking on
the videos every 5 minutes to get the viewing figures up!
The Searchers Video Hit List.
1.
Needles
and Pins 89 Prom Video 446436
2. Don't Throw Your Love away NME 64 Concert 249226
3. When
You Walk In The Room German TV (82) 173525
4.
Love Potion No 9 (American TV 65/66 miming to original
featuring Tony Jackson) 164319
5. Needles
and Pins (original
version) Montage 99554
6. Finale
from "live"
7. When
You Walk In The Room -
8.
Hits Medley Kedron Wavell 2007 *
71898
9. Sweets
for my Sweet (beat club 67) 64983
10. Sweets for my Sweet Caloundra
11. Needles and Pins Ed Sullivan Show 1964 49223
12. Needles and Pins re-recorded version 1992
let's have a party
German TV show 42328
13. When You Walk In The
Room just a video of Kapp single
being played 35665
14. Umbrella Man Beat Club 68 34857
15 When You Walk In The
Room montage - poor 34745
16. Farmer John NME
Concert 64
27283
17. Needles and Pins re-recorded version Oldies Parade
94 26978
18. Live at Star Club
63 only 45 seconds long 26036
19. Don't Throw
Your Love Away just a French EP picture 24972
20. Searchers v Hollies
pointless clip 90 seconds of a 1966 clip of
Needles & Pins and a 64 clip of Hollies
doing Just One Look 24638
21. Sugar and Spice
montage of some good photos 22127
22. Don't Throw
Your Love Away
23. Colour Me Pop
TV show 65 but in B&W, good ten minute video
I had a small hand in, it features tracks
from the Sounds
Like Searchers album 17945
24.
25. Sweets For My Sweet
26. What Have They
Done To The Rain live in
27. When I Get Home
28. Let The Good Times Roll NME Concert 1965 14672
29. Needles and Pins
30. What Did I say
NME Concert 64 14184
31. Saturday Night Out
from film 11232
32. Be My Baby just
a picture of
33. Goodbye My Love
montage
7607
34. Hi Heel Sneakers Shindig 65 6227
35. i'll be missing you This is just Kapp record playing * 5970
36. Searchers on Little
and Large show in 1982 5857
37. See See
Rider/Jenny Take Ride German TV show 66? 5794
38. Medley from 81 TV
show called Knees Up 5666
39. Needles and Pins
live at
40. Sandman from
Live show in
41.. Love Potion No 9 montage 5292
42. What Have They
Done To The Rain Hullabaloo
TV show 65 4712
43. Live show
44. I Count The Tears
montage 4181
45. Mr Tambourine Man
from
46. Live show
47. Live show
48. Live show
49. Have You Ever Loved
Somebody montage 2273
50. Don't Throw Your
Love Away just a video of single being played * 2102
51. Love Potion No 9
German TV show 66? 2051
52.Live show
53. Live show
54. Live show
55. This Feeling
Inside Ready Steady Go 65 1622
56. What Have They
Done To The Rain
57. Live show
58. In This Life Live
59. Live show
60. Live show
61. Live show
62. Seven Nights To Rock montage 579
63. Running Scared
montage
535
64.
65. Desdemona
montage 500
So there you have
it 65 videos of Searchers some better than others.
My own favourite is
number 27 a clip thought lost forever and I also think the track deserved
better.