High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Searchers are an English
rock band who emerged as part of the 1960s Merseybeat scene along with
The Beatles, The Swinging Blue Jeans, and Gerry & The Pacemakers.
The band's hits included a remake of the Drifters' 1961 hit, "Sweets for
My Sweet"; remakes of Jackie DeShannon's "Needles and Pins" and "When
You Walk In The Room"; an original song written for them, "Sugar and
Spice"; The Orlons' "Don't Throw Your Love Away"; and a remake of The
Clovers' "Love Potion No. 9". They were the second group from Liverpool,
after the Beatles, to have a hit in the United States when "Needles and
Pins" charted during the first week of March 1964. Originally founded as
a skiffle group in Liverpool in 1959 by John McNally and Mike Pender,
the band took their name from the classic 1956 John Wayne western The
Searchers.
