The Searchers - Meet the Searchers [Japan Bonus Tracks]

The Searchers' debut album was one of the better early-Merseybeat long-players, appearing in the middle of 1963. It was a pleasant enough release, but nowhere near as substantial as the singles The Beatles were generating during the same period -- strangely enough, Meet The Searchers [japan Bonus Tracks] would yield their biggest U.S. hit, "Love Potion No. 9," but in the total scheme of things, it was just a classy rock 'n' roll effort with some unusual folk influences balancing out the covers of hits by the Drifters and others. Read More