rare SHRINK "LOVE POTION #9" STICKER The SEARCHERS Beat Beatles Holllies POP
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$ 21
Sold For
Dec 2, 2018
Sold Date
Nov 29, 2018
Start Date
$ 10
Start price
8
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USA
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MINT IN SHRINK + HUGE STICKER!!
1964 MONO FIRST PRINT!
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" This Is Us "
THE SEARCHERS
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USA - KAPP RECORDS - KL 1409 - MONO
... STILL IN THE ORIGINAL FACTORY CELLOPHANE
Contains the MEGA RARE "LOVE POTION #9" BUMPER STICKER across the outer cellophane of front cover. You NEVER see this RARE sticker!
The Searchers, the English beat group from the British Invasion '60s, emerged indeed as part of the 1960s Merseybeat scene along with the Beatles, the Hollies, the Fourmost, the Merseybeats, the Swinging Blue Jeans, and Gerry and the Pacemakers.
The band's hits include "Sweets for My Sweet"; "Needles and Pins" "When You Walk in the Room"; "Sugar and Spice"; "Don't Throw Your Love Away"; and perhaps their greatest hit, "Love Potion No. 9".
With the Swinging Blue Jeans, the Searchers tied for the second group from Liverpool, after the Beatles, to have a hit in the US when their "Needles and Pins" and the Swinging Blue Jeans' "Hippy Hippy Shake" both reached the Hot 100 on 7 March 1964.
The Searchers, out of the many millions of circa-Liverpool bands of the early Sixties, make for a real proverbial case of being "unjustly forgotten". Many of their former hits are still frequently played on Sixties' radio stations, and no marginally comprehensive audio overview of that decade's music, not even the ruddy stuff they constantly advertise on public channels can really be complete without "Love Potion #9".
Our personal experience has led to believe that the Searchers were significantly more professional (in some respects) and had a much more refined taste than quite a few of their colleagues. But ooh, that sound, it can be so beautiful. One thing that is indeed notable about the Searchers is that they were the first - okay, among the first bands to actually employ that 12-string guitar jangle which the Byrds later became famous for. The "Searchers sound" first came into being on the R'n'B covers, which could, all of a sudden, become completely different sonic entities - milder, gentler, subtler, but preserving the melodicity and inventiveness of the originals. (An excellent, although chronologically late, example of this transformation is the band's reworking of 'I'll Be Doggone'). A little later on, however, it was discovered that this sound was even better suited for rearranging folk tunes from the "white" rather than the "black" tradition, which led to a drastic expansion of the band's repertoire and their dragging out obscure, but fantastic, tunes first tapped by folk veterans.
This is why is actually useful to hunt for the band's LPs rather than staying satisfied with hit collections as the collector may be potentially missing out on some nuggets which you couldn't really encounter among the output of their contemporaries, so much more intent upon rockabillying, rhythm-and-blueswailing, pop-rocking, or just plain surfing in style. Flawed, but unique in their way.
As far as favourites go, though, 'Love Potion # 9' gets our vote. It's a little weird that this cool, "mock-dangerous" ditty; the song was the Searchers' biggest hit across the Atlantic, and remains their primary visit card up to this day - yet another case of a band's strengths being misrepresented through accidental chart success); the song employs the combination of the tell-tale element, the comical ending, the steady R'n'B background and the overall generic catchiness, plus a certain mysterious air of delivering the lyrics - this all works towards making 'Love Potion # 9' the quintessential "eyebrow-raising" song of the early early early Sixties. Gotta love it! Of course, you can also spot a hint at social critique, what with the reference to cops breaking the protagonist's bottles of love potion # 9 (or is that a METAPHOR for something even more deeply Freudian?), but you know, we wouldn't go that far. Not today, at least.Elsewhere, the listener may be surprised the Searchers actually manage to rock the way they rock - fast numbers like 'Alright' or 'Farmer John', which they speed up at least twice compared to all the other versions of the song recorded.
Lineup: John McNally (vocals, rhythm guitar), Michael Pender (vocals, lead guitar), Tony Jackson (vocals, bass guitar), Chris Curtis (vocals, drums).
- Don't Throw Your Love Away
- Unhappy Girls
- Where Have You Been
- Hungry for Love
- This Empty Space
- Hi-Heel Sneakers
- B:
- It's in Her Kiss
- Count the Tears
- Can't Help Forgiving You
- Love Potion Number Nine
- Sea of Heartbreak
- I Pretend I'm With You
CONDITION: The cover: rated: MINT...stunning first print in factory cellophane including the mega-rare LOVE POTION #9 BUMPER STICKER ON FRONT COVER... After 53 years, has still a beautiful (ARCHIVE) fresh appearance -- 4 sharp corners, flat and square, see photo!! There are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ... VERY collection worthy ...
The vinyl: Rated: VG++ side one, VG side two; w/ stray light hairlines ... the complete album played here with very little notice of surface wear and ultimately enjoyable - better than visual side side two grade ... Both custom KAPP labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people..
EFFICIENT/CAREFUL GRADING
All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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