The first two songs are from the tail end of 1964; all the rest are from 1965. Those first two are from a Swedish radio show. The rest are proper BBC studio sessions, and have been included on the official live album "BBC Sessions."
As I mentioned in Volume 1 of this series, the Searchers were never that big in the US. But in Britain, they were extremely popular for a couple of years. In fact, 1965 was probably their peak.
These BBC recordings suffer the usual problem of BBC DJs talking over the music. But the band got lucky this time, since only four of the songs here have "[Edit]" in their names. As I do, I used the X-Minus audio software to wipe the talking while keeping the underlying music.
This album is 35 minutes long.
01 Memphis, Tennessee (Searchers)
02 Hi-Heel Sneakers (Searchers)
03 What Have They Done to the Rain [Edit] (Searchers)
04 Something You Got (Searchers)
05 Let the Good Times Roll [Edit] (Searchers)
06 Everything You Do (Searchers)
07 Goodbye My Love (Searchers)
08 Magic Potion (Searchers)
09 Bumble Bee (Searchers)
10 Everybody Clap Your Hands [Edit] (Searchers)
11 Sweet Little Sixteen (Searchers)
12 Glad All Over [Edit] (Searchers)
13 He's Got No Love (Searchers)
14 Be My Baby (Searchers)
15 Ready, Willing and Able (Searchers)
https://www.upload.ee/files/15271708/TSearchrs_1964-1965_BBSessionsVol2_atse.zip.html
The cover photo is from a TV appearance in 1965, but I don't know the details.
thanks for all the BBC sessions you put up here. So good that all the DJ talk is edited out!
ReplyDeleteThanks for these 2 sets, I cannot think how you've got hold of these amazing BBC (et al) recordings. By the way, I think you'll find the final song here is not Ready Teddy, but Ready Willing And Able, a Fats Domino song
ReplyDeleteThanks for the fix. I just updated the post with the correct song name.
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