From about 1963 to 1966, the "British Invasion" sound was very popular worldwide, a poppy British version of American soul and rock styles. But musical styles were rapidly changing and growing more sophisticated. By 1967, the psychedelic sound was ascendant, and old styles were passe. Some musical acts evolved and grew, and some fell behind. The Searchers, unfortunately, definitely fell behind. In 1965, they were almost up there with the Beatles in terms of popularity in Britain, but their popularity dropped so rapidly that they didn't even release another new studio album in Britain after 1965.
This album documents their decline. It's all good music, mind you. In fact, I like this one the best out of the three BBC volumes. Their style was increasingly out of touch with the musical trends of the time, but that doesn't matter when it comes to listening to this music now.
The band stuck together well beyond this time frame, and even had some minor revivals years later. But it seems they were too unpopular to merit any more BBC sessions after 1967. It didn't help that they only released one single in 1968. They did play some songs for the "Beat Club" TV show in Germany in 1968, including the excellent "Umbrella Man," but I looked closely at the YouTube videos and those are lip-synced, so I didn't include them here.
As usual, BBC DJs talked over the music of some songs (the ones with "[Edit]" in their titles), and, as usual, I fixed those using the X-Minus audio editing program.
This album is 37 minutes long.
01 Four Strong Winds (Searchers)
02 When I Get Home (Searchers)
03 I'm Never Coming Back [Edit] (Searchers)
04 Too Many Miles [Edit] (Searchers)
05 Take Me for What I'm Worth (Searchers)
06 It's Time (Searchers)
07 Take It or Leave It (Searchers)
08 Blowin' in the Wind [Edit] (Searchers)
09 Have You Ever Loved Somebody (Searchers)
10 C. C. Rider - Jenny Take a Ride [Edit] (Searchers)
11 Popcorn Double Feature (Searchers)
12 Goodbye, So Long [Edit] (Searchers)
13 I'll Be Loving You [Edit] (Searchers)
14 Western Union (Searchers)
15 I Don't Believe [Edit] (Searchers)
https://www.upload.ee/files/15175627/TSearchrs_1965-1967_BBSessionsVol3_atse.zip.html
The cover photo comes from the "Hippodrome" TV show in 1966.
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