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Post by petercheck on Aug 28, 2018 10:15:34 GMT
All 3 songs from this Dutch TV performance, filmed at Schiphol Airport:
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Post by petercheck on May 17, 2023 8:16:38 GMT
Been searching (pun intended) for this footage for decades!
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Post by Patrick Coles on May 17, 2023 21:47:41 GMT
Great find Peter !
In retrospect while they did a few nice singles for Liberty it seems a pity they did not renew their PYE contract as intended with new producer Tony MacCauley taking over from Tony Hatch in 1967
- for years I had believed PYE just dropped them when the contract expired after 'Second Hand Dealer' but it appears this was not the case I later learned...
it's very possible that the actual band members themselves had no knowledge or say in the matter...(?)
- for example they later said they had NO idea at all that Paul McCartney had offered 'Things We Said Today' to their management in 1964...saying they would have jumped at the chance of cutting a version of Paul's song had they known...
turning down ex-Searcher Chris Curtis offer to produce their cover of The Hollies 'Have You Ever Loved Somebody' (Chris duly handling the Paul & Barry Ryan rival cover instead) was another unwise move in (easy) retrospect as well...
RCA UK wing while allowing them to cut mostly unissued at the time new material seemed only to really want re-cuts of old hits and appeared to view them as a nostalgia act which sporadic 'new' RCA singles such as 'Desdemona' (which charted in the USA) and 'Vahevala' (which picked up considerable airplay on Radio Luxembourg) indicated they were MUCH more than...
I would have loved a 1967 new Searchers album featuring Johnny Blunt on drums...and some proper new material RCA albums with Billy Adamson on drums rather than just the re-recordings (mainly) on 'Second Take' (which was then totally eclipsed by PYE's 'Golden Hour of...' original recordings set)
the two SIRE records albums later were excellent
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Post by petercheck on May 18, 2023 17:11:27 GMT
Glad you like it! The Searchers TV appearances from the early '70s were few and far between (my next aim is to locate their 10th August 1973 performance on 'The Midnight Special'!).
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Post by Patrick Coles on May 20, 2023 21:30:59 GMT
Good luck in locating that one ! for now here's the SIRE era line up of Mike Pender, John McNally, Frank Allen and drummer Billy Adamson playing live nine years on from that 'Midnight Special' in a 1982 concert in listenable sound quality ! A Little Bit of Heaven / Where Have All The Flowers Gone / Farmer John www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X8PkWRnAi0 |
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Post by Patrick Coles on May 20, 2023 22:00:40 GMT
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Post by petercheck on May 21, 2023 5:46:40 GMT
It's from a programme made for US TV called ‘Echoes Of The Sixties’, broadcast 24th July 1979. They also performed 'Needles and Pins' on a rooftop (London? I'm not sure!): I didn't post 'Magic Potion' but I'm familiar with the clip (it's from a TV special called ‘The Burt Bacharach Sound’, broadcast 14th April 1965). |
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Post by petercheck on May 26, 2023 22:24:56 GMT
A TV appearance from 1977:
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Post by Patrick Coles on May 27, 2023 21:24:47 GMT
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Post by jimhope on Jun 6, 2023 14:55:32 GMT
Some really excellent footage of the Searchers in the 70s there but apart from Beat Club in 1969 is there any footage out there of the Searchers say 1966-1968 after Chris Curtis was sacked from the band
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Post by petercheck on Jun 7, 2023 11:46:36 GMT
Some really excellent footage of the Searchers in the 70s there but apart from Beat Club in 1969 is there any footage out there of the Searchers say 1966-1968 after Chris Curtis was sacked from the band Only 'Beat! Beat! Beat!' 1966 (Love Potion No. 9 / Sweets For My Sweet / C.C. Rider) and Italy's ‘Studio Uno’ 1966 (mimed version of Ain’t That Just Like Me). Along with the two 1969 'Beat Club' clips, this is all that survives from the 1966-1969 John Blunt era. |
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Post by jimhope on Jun 7, 2023 14:35:21 GMT
Some really excellent footage of the Searchers in the 70s there but apart from Beat Club in 1969 is there any footage out there of the Searchers say 1966-1968 after Chris Curtis was sacked from the band Only 'Beat! Beat! Beat!' 1966 (Love Potion No. 9 / Sweets For My Sweet / C.C. Rider) and Italy's ‘Studio Uno’ 1966 (mimed version of Ain’t That Just Like Me). Along with the two 1969 'Beat Club' clips, this is all that survives from the 1966-1969 John Blunt era. thank you for that Peter |
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Post by Patrick Coles on Jun 7, 2023 21:32:27 GMT
Not the 1966-69 Searchers line up but here a now elderly Johnny Blunt returns on drums with the group on 21 October 2012 for 'Take it Or Leave it' and 'Have You Ever Loved Somebody' www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cpDb1KqCCoGreat comment by John at the end - while this live performance shows more of the actual power in John's drumming on 'Have You Ever Loved Somebody' that was so diluted by the producer / engineer on the 1966 single down to a mere 'tap tappy' sound minus all the power in John's great playing (causing Chris Curtis to remark; 'it sounds like a rat scurrying across the snare drum !') |
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Post by petercheck on Jun 8, 2023 6:04:06 GMT
Not the 1966-69 Searchers line up but here a now elderly Johnny Blunt returns on drums with the group on 21 October 2012 for 'Take it Or Leave it' and 'Have You Ever Loved Somebody' www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cpDb1KqCCoGreat comment by John at the end - while this live performance shows more of the actual power in John's drumming on 'Have You Ever Loved Somebody' that was so diluted by the producer / engineer on the 1966 single down to a mere 'tap tappy' sound minus all the power in John's great playing (causing Chris Curtis to remark; 'it sounds like a rat scurrying across the snare drum !') Check out the Swedish Radio Sessions CD if you can find it. John Blunt plays brilliantlly on the 1967 live songs, with 'Have You Ever Seen Somebody' sounding very powerful indeed. Here's 'Take Me For What I'm Worth': Those final 5 Pye singles in 1966-1967 are the band at their most brilliant IMO. Here's a real fave of mine: |
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Post by Patrick Coles on Jun 8, 2023 21:23:44 GMT
Yes indeed Peter !
if you take those final 5 PYE singles A and B sides ten songs and add on 'He's Got No Love' / 'So Far Away' plus 'When I Get Home' / 'I'm Never Coming Back' it's possible to construct a 14 track extra album from the PYE era following the 'Take Me For What I'm Worth' album (which Frank Allen revealed was recorded earlier in 1965 around the same time The Beatles released 'Help !' - but PYE sat on it for months finally releasing it later on in '65 by which time the album sounded a little dated in places compared to other albums of later 1965)
here is my suggested 'extra' Sixties Searchers 'missing album' track listing;
'side one'
1. He's Got No Love
2. So Far Away
3. When I Get Home
4. I'm Never Coming Back
5. Don't Hide it Away
6. It's Just The Way (That Love Will Come And Go)
7. Take it Or Leave it
'side two'
1. Have You Ever Loved Somebody
2. Popcorn Double Feature
3. Lovers
4. Western Union
5. I'll Cry Tomorrow
6. Crazy Dreams
7. Second Hand Dealer
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