Great record this, and though the original's a lost soul classic, I still think I prefer the cover.
And I was pleased Paul Du Noyer was so kind about The Searchers in his book - 'the sound that was so special....radiant, chiming twin-guitars...a profound influence on The Byrds' Roger McGuinn' ; they weren't songwriters and couldn't compete with the Lennons and McCartneys and Davies and Stones, but their singles were so much a part of our late 60s infancies, always there, in the air, needles and pins-ah - shimmering clean.
I don't remember this one from the time, which made me love it all the more when it finally reached me on a reissue label sampler, sometime in the early 90s when it was otherwise all squall and baggy and blast.
The Searchers - 'Goodbye My Love' (1965)
I love The Searchers, it's such a crisp sound, more chimey than The Byrds ever were if you ask me.
ReplyDeleteI have this on an old tape, taped from one of those shows on Radio 1 back in the day that picked hits from a year and then told you what the year was at the end.
Lovely. The Golden Hour: Master(Simon)Bates.
ReplyDeleteAnd it was the year I was born.
ReplyDeletehis mums going to be furious when she sees the state of her cheesegrater...
ReplyDeletewhat a treat. i think i only know needles and pins. is there more?
hell the golden hour was just so eeeeeasy i mean there just weren't that many years. if you more than one wrong either way well....
ReplyDeleteAlways liked thisone.
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Love this. One of my first LPs was The Golden Hour of The Searchers.
ReplyDeleteHave you heard He's Got No Love? A lost gem written by Curtis & Pender.
I havenae.
ReplyDeleteIt's on Youtube.
ReplyDeleteEchoey
ReplyDeleteLovely work Mr H.
ReplyDeleteThey're still at it y'know.
There are two rival outfits I think.
ReplyDeleteContractual tussles and cabaret eh? Seems it often ends that way.