The Searchers discography
A discography of The Searchers.
Albums
Searchers album releases varied significantly between the UK and the US; even those with the same or similar names had different contents. In addition, very many compilation and repackaging releases have been made over the years.
| Year | Album details | Chart Positions | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
GER [2] | |||
| 1963 | Meet The Searchers
|
2 | 20 | |
Sweets For My Sweet – The Searchers At The Star-Club Hamburg
|
NR | 11 |
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Sugar and Spice
|
5 | 30 |
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| 1964 | It's the Searchers
|
4 | — |
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| 1965 | Sounds Like Searchers
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8 | 28 |
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Take Me for What I'm Worth
|
— | — |
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| 1972 | Second Take
|
— | — |
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| 1979 | Searchers
|
— | — | |
| 1981 | Play For Today
|
— | — |
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| 1988 | Hungry Hearts
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NR | — |
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| "—" denotes a release that did not chart, "NR" means not released in the UK | ||||
US Albums
Searchers album releases varied significantly between the UK and the US; even those with the same or similar names had different contents.
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| US [3] | |||
| 1964 | Meet The Searchers / Needles and Pins
|
22 |
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Hear! Hear!
|
120 |
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This Is Us
|
97 | ||
The Searchers Meet the Rattles
|
– |
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| 1965 | The New Searchers LP (Chris, John, Mike, Frank)
|
112 | |
The Searchers No. 4
|
149 | ||
| 1966 | Take Me for What I'm Worth
|
— |
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| 1974 | Needles & Pins
|
— |
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| 1979 | The Searchers
|
191 | |
| 1981 | Love's Melodies
|
— | |
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart. | |||
Collectors editions
- There are some Searchers CD compilation albums with previously unreleased materials.
- 1990 – German, French + Rare Recordings
- 2001 – The Swedish Radio Sessions
- 2002 – The Iron Door Sessions
- 2004 – BBC Sessions
Compilation albums
- There are many, many Searchers compilation albums, but Smash Hits and Smash Hits Vol. 2 included a number of chart hits that had never made it to a regular album up to that time. Play the System also contained early 1960s songs that did not appear on previous albums.
- 1965 – Smash Hits
- 1967 – Smash Hits Vol. 2
- 1971 – Needles And Pins (Hallmark label)
- 1972 – Golden Hour Of The Searchers
- 1973 – Golden Hour Of The Searchers Vol. 2
- 1987 – Play the System
- 1992 – 30th Anniversary Collection 1962-1992 (contains some previously unreleased materials)
- 1999 – Second Take – The Complete RCA/UK Recordings
- 2008 – The Very Best of The Searchers (UK #11)
- 2017 – Another Night: The Sire Recordings 1979-1981
- 2019 – The Farewell Album / The Greatest Hits & More (UK #35)
Singles
| Year | Title (A-side) | B-side | Chart Positions | U.K. Album | U.S. Album | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK Singles Chart[4] | US Charts[5] |
VG-lista, Norway[6] | Swedish Sales Chart[7] | German Sales Chart[8] | NL Top 40[9] | |||||
| 1963 | "Sweets for My Sweet" (originally recorded by The Drifters) |
"It's All Been a Dream" | 1 | – | 8 | 5 | 44 | – | A: Meet The Searchers B: Non-album track |
A: Hear! Hear! B: Non-album track |
| "Sweet Nothin's" (originally recorded by Brenda Lee) |
"What'd I Say" | 48 | – | – | – | – | – | Non-album tracks | A: The Searchers Meet The Rattles B: Non-album track | |
| "Sugar and Spice" (originally recorded by Tony Hatch) |
"Saints and Searchers" | 2 | 44 | – | – | – | – | Sugar and Spice | Non-album tracks | |
| 1964 | "Needles and Pins" (originally recorded by Jackie DeShannon) |
"Saturday Night Out" (UK and US 2nd pressings) "Ain't That Just Like Me" (US original pressings) |
1 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 8 | – | A: It's The Searchers UK & US 2nd B: Non-album tracks US original B: Sugar and Spice |
Meet The Searchers |
| "Don't Throw Your Love Away" (originally recorded by The Orlons) |
"I Pretend I'm with You" | 1 | 16 | – | 3 | 37 | – | A: It's The Searchers B: Non-album track |
This Is Us | |
| "Someday We're Gonna Love Again" (originally recorded by Barbara Lewis) |
"No One Else Could Love Me" | 11 | 34 | – | – | – | – | A: The Searchers' Smash Hits B: Non-album track |
Non-album tracks | |
| "When You Walk in the Room" (originally recorded by Jackie DeShannon) |
"I'll Be Missing You" | 3 | 35 | – | 20 | – | – | A: Searchers' Smash Hits Vol. 2 B: Non-album track |
Non-album tracks | |
| "Love Potion No. 9" (originally recorded by The Clovers) |
"Hi-Heel Sneakers" | NR | 3 | – | – | 23 | – | A: Meet the Searchers B: It's The Searchers |
This Is Us | |
| "What Have They Done to the Rain" (originally recorded by Malvina Reynolds) |
"This Feeling Inside" | 13 | 29 | – | 13 | – | 25 | A: The Searchers' Smash Hits B: Searchers' Smash Hits Vol. 2 |
A: The New Searchers LP B: Non-album track | |
| 1965 | "Bumble Bee" (originally recorded by LaVern Baker) |
"Everything You Do" (US first pressings) "A Tear Fell" (US later pressings) |
NR | 21 | – | 20 | – | 23 | Sounds Like Searchers | The New Searchers LP |
| "I Don't Want to Go On Without You" (originally recorded by The Drifters) |
"A Tear Fell" | NR | NR | – | – | – | 17 | Sounds Like Searchers | The New Searchers LP | |
| "Goodbye My Love" (originally recorded by Jimmy Hughes) (US single shown as "Goodbye My Lover Goodbye") |
"Till I Met You" | 4 | 52 | – | – | 16 | 7 | A: Searchers' Smash Hits Vol. 2 B: The Searchers' Smash Hits |
No. 4 | |
| "He's Got No Love" | "So Far Away" | 12 | 79 | – | – | – | 14 | A: The Searchers' Smash Hits B: Non-album track |
Take Me For What I'm Worth | |
| "When I Get Home" (originally recorded by Bobby Darin) |
"I'm Never Coming Back" | 35 | – | – | – | – | – | Non-album tracks | ||
| "Don't You Know Why" | "You Can't Lie to a Liar" | NR | – | – | – | – | – | Take Me for What I'm Worth | ||
| "Take Me for What I'm Worth" (originally recorded by P. F. Sloan) |
"Too Many Miles" | 20 | 76 | – | 14 | – | 25 | |||
| 1966 | "Take It or Leave It" (originally recorded by The Rolling Stones) |
"Don't Hide It Away" | 31 | – | – | 16 | – | 5 | A: Searchers' Smash Hits Vol. 2 B: Non-album tracks |
Non-album tracks |
| "Have You Ever Loved Somebody?" (originally recorded by The Hollies) |
"It's Just the Way (Love Will Come and Go)" | 48 | 94 | – | – | – | – | |||
| 1967 | "Popcorn Double Feature"[10] |
"Lovers" | – | – | – | – | – | – | Non-album tracks | |
| "Western Union" (originally recorded by The Five Americans) |
"I'll Cry Tomorrow" | – | NR | – | – | – | 19 | |||
| "Second Hand Dealer" | "Crazy Dreams" | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| 1968 | "Umbrella Man" | "Over the Weekend" | – | NR | – | – | – | – | ||
| 1969 | "Somebody Shot the Lollipop Man" (Released under the pseudonym "Pasha") |
"Pussy Willow Dragon" | – | NR | – | – | – | – | ||
| "Shoot 'Em Up Baby" (originally recorded by Andy Kim) |
"Suzanna" | – | NR | – | – | – | – | |||
| "Kinky Kathy Abernathy" | "Suzanna" | – | NR | – | – | – | – | |||
| 1971 | "Desdemona" | "The World Is Waiting for Tomorrow" | – | 94 | – | – | – | – | A: Second Take B: Non-album track | |
| "Love Is Everywhere" | "And a Button" | – | – | – | – | – | – | Non-album tracks | ||
| 1972 | "Sing Singer Sing" | "Come On Back to Me" | – | – | – | – | – | – | A: Non-album track B: Second Take | |
| "Needles and Pins" (re-recording) | "When You Walk in the Room"/ "Come On Back to Me" |
– | – | – | – | – | – | Second Take | ||
| 1973 | "Solitaire" (originally recorded by Neil Sedaka) |
"Spicks and Specks" | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| "Vahevala" (originally recorded by Loggins & Messina) |
"Madman" | – | – | – | – | – | – | Non-album tracks | ||
| 1979 | "Hearts in Her Eyes" (given to the group by The Records) |
"Don't Hang On" | – | – | – | – | – | – | The Searchers | |
| "It's Too Late" | "This Kind of Love Affair" (UK) "Don't Hang On" (US) |
– | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| 1981 | "Love's Melody" (originally recorded by Ducks Deluxe) |
"Changing" (UK) "Little Bit of Heaven" (US) |
– | – | – | – | – | – | A & US B: Love's Melodies UK B: Non-album track | |
| "Another Night" | "Back to the War" | – | – | – | – | – | – | A: Love's Melodies B: Non-album track |
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| 1982 | "I Don't Want to Be the One" | "Hollywood" | – | – | – | – | – | – | Non-album tracks | |
EPs
- 1963 – Ain't Gonna Kiss Ya (UK #1)
- 1963 – Sweets for My Sweet (UK #5)
- 1964 – Hungry for Love (UK #4)
- 1964 – The Searchers Play the System (UK #4)
- 1965 – When You Walk in the Room (UK #12)
- 1965 – Bumble Bee (UK #1, 17 weeks in charts)
- 1965 – Searchers '65 (UK #15)
- 1965 – Four By Four
- 1966 – Take Me For What I'm Worth
References
- "Artist Chart History: Searchers". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
- "Official German Charts/". Offizielle Deutsche Charts. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
- "Billboard Chart History: Searchers". Billboard Top 200. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
- Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 486. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- "The Searchers Chart History: Hot 100". Billboard. 2019. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
- "VG-lista – The Searchers". Lista.vg.no. Retrieved 2013-07-26.
- Hallberg, Eric (1993). Kvällstoppen i P3 (1st ed.). Sweden: Drift Musik. ISBN 91-630-2140-4.
- "Die ganze Musik im Internet". musicline.de. Retrieved 2012-01-07.
- "Dutch Top 40". Top40Hitdossier.nl. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
- "Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum • View topic - Searchers, Byrds and Dusty Springfield". www.rickresource.com. Retrieved 2020-09-27.
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