Fact #187359
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Short story:
The Searchers' release Sweets For My Sweet on Pye Records in the UK. The song is a cover of a 1961 hit for The Drifters in the USA.
Full article:
John McNally (The Searchers] : It was recorded on the way to our second visit to The Star Club, Hamburg. In fact, we got a train from Liverpool Lime Street down to London Euston, got all our gear round to the Pye Studios at Marble Arch and recorded it at the request of Tony Hatch.
The gear that we had to record Sweets on was a home-made bass amplifier and a home-made valve amplifier, and we recorded it all round two mikes, one for the lead vocal and the other for the harmonies. About three takes and it was done. We packed the gear up and caught the boat train to Hamburg.
They released Sweets as a single and at first it wasn`t doing anything. We thought we`d missed out while everyone else from Merseyside seemed to be making it. What changed everything was an interview in which John Lennon said that it was the best single to come out of Liverpool.
It took off and we had to buy our way out of our contract at The Star Club to fly home and promote it. It shot to Number One, helped by an appearance on Thank Your Lucky Stars, and our whole world changed.
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The gear that we had to record Sweets on was a home-made bass amplifier and a home-made valve amplifier, and we recorded it all round two mikes, one for the lead vocal and the other for the harmonies. About three takes and it was done. We packed the gear up and caught the boat train to Hamburg.
They released Sweets as a single and at first it wasn`t doing anything. We thought we`d missed out while everyone else from Merseyside seemed to be making it. What changed everything was an interview in which John Lennon said that it was the best single to come out of Liverpool.
It took off and we had to buy our way out of our contract at The Star Club to fly home and promote it. It shot to Number One, helped by an appearance on Thank Your Lucky Stars, and our whole world changed.
(Source : not known)