The Searchers - The Ultimate Collection [Castle] (1990) torrent

This is the same torrent that was uploaded to Demonoid in July 2008.


The Searchers - The Ultimate Collection [Castle] (1990)

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Includes:
Files by track, ripped at FLAC 8 using Easy CD-DA Extractor (www.poikosoft.com)
Tracks have full tags (including embedded thumbnail).
All artwork in jpgs at 300 d.p.i. Rotated and cropped losslessly using jpegcrop.
AMG Bio.txt
Notes.txt (which is simply these notes included in the torrent)

Bio Excerpt from All Music:

Founded in 1957 by John McNally (guitar/vocals), the Searchers were originally one of thousands of skiffle groups formed in the wake of Lonnie Donegan's success with "Rock Island Line." The Searchers' immediate competitors included bands such as the Wreckers and the Confederates, both led by Michael Pender (guitar, vocals), and the Martinis, led by Tony Jackson (guitar/vocals). By 1959, McNally and Pender were working together as a duet; later in the year, Jackson joined as the lead vocalist. After drummer Norman McGarry left the Searchers he was replaced by Chris Crummy, who quickly renamed himself Chris Curtis. Other changes were in the works as Jackson built and learned to play a customized bass guitar. Learning his new job on the four-stringed instrument proved too difficult to permit him to continue singing lead, and McNally and Pender brought in a fifth member, Johnny Sandon (born Billy Beck). Johnny Sandon & the Searchers lasted from 1960 through February of 1962, and were extremely popular on the dance hall and club circuit in Liverpool. Sandon cut out for a career on his own, with another band called the Remo Four in early 1962.

Meanwhile, the Searchers, now a quartet with Jackson once again lead singer, became one of the top acts on the Liverpool band scene, playing textured renditions of American R&B, rock & roll, country, soul, and rockabilly. ...

To read the entire bio:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jifixqr5ldke~T1

There is no review at All Music, but an exceedingly bare entry is here: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wbfixqrgldhe

Track List:

01. Sweets For My Sweet
02. Listen To Me
03. When You Walk In The Room
04. Goodbye My Love
05. I Don't Want To Go On Without You
06. What Have They Done To The Rain
07. Don't Throw Your Love Away
08. Ain't Gonna Kiss
09. Since You Broke My Heart
10. Goodnight Baby
11. Hungry For Love
12. When I Get Home
13. Needles & Pins
14. Ain't That Just Like Me
15. Take It Or Leave It
16. Bumble Bee
17. Someday Were Gonna Love Again
18. Farmer John
19. Sugar & Spice
20. Have You Ever Loved Somebody
21. Take Me For What I'm Worth
22. Western Union
23. He's Got No Love
24. Love Potion No.9