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In 1963, "Sweets for My Sweet" was released by English Merseybeat band the Searchers as their debut single, reaching No. 1 on the UK Single Chart for two weeks that August. [4] [5] According to Bill Harry, Dusty Springfield considered the Searchers' recording of the song to be "the best record to come out of Liverpool" as of July 1963. [6]
Meet The Searchers is the 1963 debut and most successful album by British rock band The Searchers.The album featured their first single released in June 1963, a version of the Drifters' "Sweets for My Sweet", which was a UK No.1 for the band, as well as their version of the Clovers "Love Potion No.9", which was released as a single in the U.S. (but not in the UK) the following year.
Treadwell recruited the Five Crowns [2] to become the new Drifters. The new Drifters' first release was the 1959 hit "There Goes My Baby". Charlie was lead singer on two of the group's top 40 hits, "Sweets for My Sweet" and "When My Little Girl Is Smiling". [3] [4]
The Searchers are an English Merseybeat group who flourished during the British Invasion of the 1960s. [1] [2] The band's hits include a remake of the Drifters' 1961 hit, "Sweets for My Sweet"; "Sugar and Spice" (written by their producer Tony Hatch); remakes of Jackie DeShannon's "Needles and Pins" and "When You Walk in the Room"; a cover of the Orlons' "Don't Throw Your Love Away"; and a ...
Sweets For My Sweet – The Searchers At The Star-Club Hamburg. Label: Star-Club Records (FILD 002) Format: 2 LP – German double LP album is the first with the complete Searchers' Star-Club recordings (1963) Incl. additional songs by the Star Combo, The Rattles and Sounds Incorporated
The song is a sweet serenade to a lost lover, and it was rerecorded by Donna Summers in 1984. Donaldson Collection - Getty Images “Great Balls of Fire” by Jerry Lee Lewis (1957)
The composer and producer of "Sugar and Spice", Tony Hatch, had produced the precedent Searchers' single: a cover of the Drifters' "Sweets for My Sweet", which had afforded the Searchers a #1 UK hit.
The Drifters' Greatest Hits: 1961 "Some Kind of Wonderful" b/w "Honey Bee" (Non-album track) A: Rudy Lewis B: David Baughn 32 6 — — Save the Last Dance for Me "Please Stay" b/w "No Sweet Lovin'" A: Rudy Lewis B: Bill Pinkney 14 13 — — "Sweets for My Sweet" b/w "Loneliness or Happiness" (from Up on the Roof – The Best of the Drifters ...