Tracks: 1) Everybody Come And Clap Your Hands; 2) If I Could Find Someone; 3) Magic Potion; 4) I Don’t Want To Go On Without You; 5) Bumble Bee; 6) Something You Got Baby; 7) Let The Good Times Roll; 8) A Tear Fell; 9) Till You Say You’ll Be Mine; 10) You Wanna Make Her Happy; 11) Everything You Do; 12) Goodnight Baby; 13*) This Feeling Inside; 14*) Goodbye My Love; 15*) Till I Met You; 16*) He’s Got No Love; 17*) So Far Away; 18*) When I Get Home.
For me, "Bumble Bee" was the highlight of this album. I guess I'm too used to 50's silly rockabilly lyrics, so it never crossed my mind that it might be a "joke" song - I just wrote the words off as "another silly love tune", - but I must say I prefer The Searcher's instrumentation to the original: it's menacing, clean, and very much sounds like The Searchers to me, or rather like the selection of The Searchers songs I consider "great". It's not unlike "Sho' Know A Lot About Love" from "It's The Searchers": another joke tune sang to a most menacing acoustic arrangement that I absolutely adore.
Huh, having written the last sentence, I come to a conclusion that I actually like what The Searchers do to joke songs - I perfectly understand the love for "Love Potion No. 9", for example. Different strokes and all that, I guess.
I'm not sure I'd ever apply the word "menacing" to anything in the Searchers catalog (LaVern Baker, on the contrary, could be quite menacing when she wanted to - one really mean mother in a pinch!), but I can see your point. The arrangements are different enough to warrant existing, although they still don't justify the purpose of these covers nearly as strongly as, say, early Beatles or Stones material.
For me, "Bumble Bee" was the highlight of this album. I guess I'm too used to 50's silly rockabilly lyrics, so it never crossed my mind that it might be a "joke" song - I just wrote the words off as "another silly love tune", - but I must say I prefer The Searcher's instrumentation to the original: it's menacing, clean, and very much sounds like The Searchers to me, or rather like the selection of The Searchers songs I consider "great". It's not unlike "Sho' Know A Lot About Love" from "It's The Searchers": another joke tune sang to a most menacing acoustic arrangement that I absolutely adore.
Huh, having written the last sentence, I come to a conclusion that I actually like what The Searchers do to joke songs - I perfectly understand the love for "Love Potion No. 9", for example. Different strokes and all that, I guess.
I'm not sure I'd ever apply the word "menacing" to anything in the Searchers catalog (LaVern Baker, on the contrary, could be quite menacing when she wanted to - one really mean mother in a pinch!), but I can see your point. The arrangements are different enough to warrant existing, although they still don't justify the purpose of these covers nearly as strongly as, say, early Beatles or Stones material.