The Searchers – Meet the Searchers / Needles & Pins album art
Meet the Searchers (1963) is the debut album by the Searchers, a rock band from Liverpool, England. Shown here is the cover of the North American release on Kapp Records from the following year, which is different both in regard to the cover and the included songs. It omits the band’s first single, “Sweets for My Sweet”. From Wikipedia:
In 1964 the British Invasion started and the Searchers were at the forefront with the Beatles and the Dave Clark Five. The group appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show with “Needles and Pins” and “Ain’t That Just Like Me”, both of which became hits in the US. Kapp Records got the rights and started to release the Searchers’ music. In the American market, albums were typically limited to 12 tracks and it was expected for albums to include the current hit single. Kapp Records released a compilation of the British market albums Meet the Searchers and Sugar and Spice (five songs from each) with additional songs from the single “Needles and Pins” / “Saturday Night Out”.
