"The Searchers - It’s The Searchers / Take Me For What I`m  Worth" (MFCD 667).

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The Searchers – brytyjski zespół rockowy, który największą popularność zdobył w latach 60. Działa od 1957 roku do dzisiaj.

Hitami grupy była między innymi piosenka "Sweets for My Sweet", wydana po raz pierwszy w 1961 roku przez grupę Drifters; utwór Jackie DeShanno "Needles and Pins", po raz pierwszy wydany w 1963 roku, a także piosenki takie jak: "When You Walk In The Room"; "Sugar and Spice"; "Don't Throw Your Love Away"; cover zespołu The Clovers – "Love Potion No. 9". Była to druga grupa z Liverpoolu (po Beatlesach), której hit zaistniał w USA – dzięki piosence "Needles and Pins" w marcu 1964.

1 -It's in Her Kiss
2- Glad All Over
3- Sea of Heartbreak
4- Livin' Lovin' Wreck
5- Where Have You Been
6- Shimmy Shimmy
7- Needles and Pins
8- This Empty Space
9- Gonna Send You Back to Georgia
10- I Count tte Tears
11- Hi Heel Sneakers
12- Can't Help Forgiving You
13- Sho'Know a Lot About Love
14- Don't Throw Your Love Away
15- I'm Ready For Me
16- I'll Be Doggone
17- Does She Really Care
18- It's Time
19- Too Many Miles
20- You Can't Lie to a Liar
21- Don't You Know Why
22- I'm Your Loving Man
23- Each Time
24- Be My Baby
25- Four Strong Winds
26- Take Me for What I'm Worth

“It’s The Searchers”.

 Perhaps the best studio album by a band that is really best represented by greatest-hit collections. This 1964 LP includes the classic hits “Needles and Pins” and “Don’t Throw Your Love Away”. It also features some of their best LP cuts, on which they applied their famed harmonies to American material that was both strong and obscure. The best of these covers are Bacharach/David’s “This Empty Space” (originally by Dionne Warwick), the Jackie DeShannon-penned “Can’t Help Forgiving You”, the Drifters’ “I Count the Tears”, the folkish “Sea of Heartbreak”, and “Where Have You Been” (which was also part of the Beatles’ repertoire during their Hamburg days). The harder-rocking songs don’t lend themselves as well to the group’s talents, which always (with some notable exceptions) lay more in the folk-rock and Merseybeat direction than R&B/rockabilly.

“Take Me For What I’m Worth”.

 The Searchers were not only slipping in popularity by the time of this release, but were also slipping considerably behind the prevailing musical trends of the times. Maybe that’s why they offered more original tunes (four) than usual. Still, the group sounded pretty much like they always did in the mid-’60s, though this is perhaps one of their weaker albums. Their interpretation of P.F. Sloan’s anthemic protest folk-rock title track is good, and gave the group their final British Top 20 hit. But, as usual, their R&B covers (of Fats Domino and Marvin Gaye) are inoffensively second-rate and dated, and the originals equally inoffensive and unmemorable. Their cover of The Ronettes’ “Be My Baby” is competent but ill-advised; nothing’s going to compete with the original. The harmonies and arrangements are never less than pleasant and professional, but even big fans of the group will count this among their lesser relics. It does, however, include a couple of their better album tracks: a cover of the obscure Jackie DeShannon composition “Each Time” and, especially, a fine acoustic reading of Ian Tyson’s “Four Strong Winds”.