I often come back here to listen to this song. I met the love of my life in 1999 when these guys played in a small club, after they finished around midnight and I was finishing my drink ready to leave and a girl (young lady) walked in to the club, I stop and stared, she smiled. It took me an hour to pluck up the courage to say hello. It was instant, she was the one and the next twenty years were the best of my life. We both like The Searchers and saw them again this time as a couple soon after getting together. 20 years of bliss followed. In 2019, we played this at her funeral as the coffin disappeared behind the curtains, I lost her to cancer, she was only 41. Sitting back of an evening, I am in my happy place listening to this now.
One minute I was chatting up the girls like a machine gun then suddenly this vision came walking across the dance floor, my nerve went I stuttered and made weak jokes then slowly removed myself from the group. Thank God she felt the same we talked outside for what seemed like hours. Married 54 years now, it hits you like a sledge hammer and if you are lucky it lasts for a lifetime.
They say you can go back to the place but you can’t go back to the time. Songs like this one certainly take me back to the time. They trigger a certain feeling that is unique to that song.
I read an interview in The Guardian lately with Jackie, 82 years and still going strong. She laughed about how Liberty Records was more interested in her as a writer than a performer, though I remember being amazed by her performances as a child.
Why the past tense? They are doing a final tour in May. I bought my tickets way back in January. Do try to see them one last time. You wouldn`t regret it.
For me it was in Sunday School. I was 13, he was 15. The minute he walked in the room, cracked a stupid joke and everyone laughed! He was great! We married at 18 and 20. 41 years, June 10, 2024.
Saw the Searcher live many times - 60's music was so full of love and feeling and WORDS you could understand not like today's rubbish. Very sad they have retired now. THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC GUYS!
So glad I got to live thru the 60s & 70s. Saw all those fabulous bands. Beatles, The Who, Clapton, Pink Floyd Hendrix and so on. I wouldn't change it for the world. ❤
You're so lucky. I got to see many of the great bands in the 70's, but yeah the 60's were something else. So raw and fresh. Can only watch their video's now, but nothing compares to live...
That is amazing! I love the 60's I was a little child growing up.But the 60's are forever etched in my memories.My Mum was young so music was always on and I loved the 60's fashion.I so wanted to be 18! I was born in 1958 now I wish I was back there in the 60's!
as a young teenager in the sixties this song and myriads of others from the era take me back there (memories). My kids well adult kids appreciate them now. Happy Days.
Born in 1949 I developed an obsession with electric guitars. It has never left me ! I play this and needles a lot as they're easy songs to play and sound good. I do it in D to make it even easier.
Wow, what a beautifully written song. Timeless and tells such a beautiful story. Pam Tillis also did a great cover of this song too. The Ventures guitarist Nokie Edwards also made a great instrumental of this very song. Iconic and nostalgic message in this song. Such deep meaning.
We used to play this song during our sets. I played lead on my 12 string. I never tried when we played it. Brings back memories of a better time. George lead guitar player The Way West.
@@jameslundy8951 once Mike saw George Harrison's US model 360/12 he traded his Gibson ES-345 for the Rose Morris 1993 model in 1964. He first used it on "When You Walk In The Room" and from then on he used it extensively in the studio and on tour until it was stolen in 1969.
@@GSP21 so does it means the Seachers guitarist imitated the jingly sound from Harrison and not in backwards? I've read on someplace the Seachers were the first ones with this sound...
Original line up- Mike Pender- lead vocals and lead guitar/ Tony Jackson-bass guitar and back up vocals/ John McNally- rythym guitar and back up vocals/ Chris Curtis- drums and back up vocals. Frank Allen replaced Jackson in 1965 and also sang lead.
The Searchers was the ONLY concert l have been to see. They were Co- starring with Bobby Vee. Never heard of either of them by the time went to College, but my friend and l had a great , screaming time!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
As a young boy remember hearing this 💎 playing on my fathers tape recorder-considered one of their best and most enduring songs it's been one of my favorite songs for over 50yrs thanks for the pist Auckland New Zealand 2023
@@andyinoregon I think that Sonny Bono got the royalties from Needles and Pins but Jackie De Shannon has always claimed that it was she who wrote it. What is not disputed is that The Searchers based their version on Jackie De Shannon's.
I often come back here to listen to this song. I met the love of my life in 1999 when these guys played in a small club, after they finished around midnight and I was finishing my drink ready to leave and a girl (young lady) walked in to the club, I stop and stared, she smiled. It took me an hour to pluck up the courage to say hello. It was instant, she was the one and the next twenty years were the best of my life. We both like The Searchers and saw them again this time as a couple soon after getting together. 20 years of bliss followed.
In 2019, we played this at her funeral as the coffin disappeared behind the curtains, I lost her to cancer, she was only 41.
Sitting back of an evening, I am in my happy place listening to this now.
Take care my friend.
Oh my my heart just hurt for you sending a virtual Hug .❤
I'm so sorry to read your story. I've listened to this great record ever since it came out, and now I'll think about you every time I hear it.
Great story but a sad end. Feel for you.
Sad story my friend. I am glad you had the years you did together.
One minute I was chatting up the girls like a machine gun then suddenly this vision came walking across the dance floor, my nerve went I stuttered and made weak jokes then slowly removed myself from the group. Thank God she felt the same we talked outside for what seemed like hours. Married 54 years now, it hits you like a sledge hammer and if you are lucky it lasts for a lifetime.
Nice story, you sound very happy x
35 years next May for my husband and I. ❤
Beautiful everyone should have their perfect one
Lovely. We all could do with that experience❤
Congratulations to both of you xx
Beautiful song. The sixties what a great time to be a teenager
yes auch in Germany - tolle Zeit mit vielen außergewöhnlichen englischen Gruppen
More fun than being a teenager from 1979-1982, let me tell you.
Except for that little Viet Nam episode. Lots of guys never made it past their teen years because of that.
It sure was❤
This is my parent’s song. They will have been married 59 years this July 2024.
Without any doubt I say that The Searchers were one of the very best British groups in those years. I still listen regularly to their songs.
Totally agree. If only they had been able to write a few songs of their own they Would be all time greats.
I agree totally they should never have stopped working and making these fabulous songs 🎵 love Mike ❤️
The best band that came out of LIVERPOOL was THE SEARCHERS....JOHN LENNON
They say you can go back to the place but you can’t go back to the time. Songs like this one certainly take me back to the time. They trigger a certain feeling that is unique to that song.
Absolutely brilliant. Loved the Searchers. Written by the gorgeous, talented, Jackie de Shannon
I read an interview in The Guardian lately with Jackie, 82 years and still going strong. She laughed about how Liberty Records was more interested in her as a writer than a performer, though I remember being amazed by her performances as a child.
She also wrote Needles and Pins didn't she??
@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13I thought Sonny Bono wrote that.
Why the past tense? They are doing a final tour in May. I bought my tickets way back in January. Do try to see them one last time. You wouldn`t regret it.
@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 She has said that she contributed to the writing but didn't get a credit .
British Invasion is defined by songs like this.......original invasion Animals, Stones, Beatles, Who etc etc.....
It's been a fantastic year I've clear from cancer for 1 year thanks to all my friends and family xx
Oh, that's wonderful news! God Bless you ...
Thank so much . What a lovely kind thoughtful person your God bless you xx
For me it was in Sunday School. I was 13, he was 15. The minute he walked in the room, cracked a stupid joke and everyone laughed! He was great! We married at 18 and 20. 41 years, June 10, 2024.
God bless you, hope you all the happiness xxxxx
I was. 13 in 1964 it was a great time to be young.
Saw the Searcher live many times - 60's music was so full of love and feeling and WORDS you could understand not like today's rubbish. Very sad they have retired now. THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC GUYS!
I STILL LOVE this song, after all these yrs!
Who doesn't?
jackie deshannon was a beautiful woman and songwriter!
she still is!!
So glad I got to live thru the 60s & 70s. Saw all those fabulous bands.
Beatles, The Who, Clapton, Pink Floyd Hendrix and so on. I wouldn't change it for the world. ❤
You're so lucky. I got to see many of the great bands in the 70's, but yeah the 60's were something else. So raw and fresh. Can only watch their video's now, but nothing compares to live...
Yes, and The Hollies, Small Faces and The Animals🎸🎶🎵🎸
@@finnerikpetersen4444 Steve Marriott wrote some brilliant songs that still sound good today.
My favorite song by the Searchers, never hear it anymore
Another great group that still one of the great songs are iconic . Still remember good old times will never hear or see this music again
Love the searchers
Best band to come out of LIVERPOOL...JOHN LENNON
Met them in 1967, saw them again ten years ago, still very good. One of the best groups from the 60’s
Yeah Yeah Yeah you forgot The Beatles😃🎸🎸🎸🎵🎶🎼🎤
this is a very special song it helped me recover from cancer thanks to everybody athe exeter hospital they saved my life xxxxx
Brilliant! My eyes are weeping happy tears and I'm dancing around my room like a crazy woman......whoops, I am a crazy teenager again!!
Love it good on ya.
Me tooooo.!!!
Thank you For being a huge part of my teens and now old age..we were a blessed generation
❤❤❤...
@@jackienuttall7549 YESSS...! 🕵🏻🎶❤️🎶👍👍👍👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿💃💃💃💃💃
Great group. Glad I was around all those years ago.
Me too 🥰
I wish I was
@@suzannenoa9736 Me too Suzanne, Fab times then and luvly memories of my parents too. Kind regards Glynn n greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands
An unmistakable sound.
The Beatles and the Searchers, my two favorite bands from days gone by but still my favorites.❤❤
One of the top groups of the sixties. I saw them several times at the Mersey View club on Frodsham Hill in the sixties, brilliant.
That is amazing! I love the 60's I was a little child growing up.But the 60's are forever etched in my memories.My Mum was young so music was always on and I loved the 60's fashion.I so wanted to be 18! I was born in 1958 now I wish I was back there in the 60's!
This is a sentiment all ‘50s and ‘60s kids felt when their beloved walked into a room! Me no exception.
Me many times!
Always hopeful for our crush. Maybe a first kiss? My heart is pounding!❤️
New love, young, awesome vibes!
Oh My! Sally Benedict FAFB, I think of you till this day.
Me to.
A thank you to everyone who up loaded this beautiful song . This song means so much to me
as a young teenager in the sixties this song and myriads of others from the era take me back there (memories). My kids well adult kids appreciate them now. Happy Days.
Great song from a great era
Fabulous song by a great band. They were as big as The Beatles at one point.
Love this song such a great beat
Loved the Searchers ❤❤
John McNally was a drastically underrated guitarist.
Born in 1949 I developed an obsession with electric guitars. It has never left me ! I play this and needles a lot as they're easy songs to play and sound good. I do it in D to make it even easier.
I play it in A, the lead bit is easier in that key.
One of the best guitar riffs.
The opening brings a smile to the face, always. Great song.
The Searchers were great!
That song was magic at the time.
Amazing taken me on a beautiful memory trip to my teens. ❤🎶❤🎶❤🎶
I was 11 when this song came out and I still count it as one of my very favourites! It captures exactly how I felt about my first love.💕
Thank you Searchers and Jackie DeShannon.
They were my first concert in '64. They played those great early hits...
Fabulous music 60s at its best
Great record, written by Jackie de Shannon. 💙🤍♥️🤍💙.
Still remember most of the Lyrics.Fab song and group.
Great Song it bring back of the 60er feeling
Saw them live in a Stoke on Trent club in the late 60s....thay were brilliant live. Lovely to hear them again!
This was my wedding song in 1971
GREAT SONG, GREAT BAND THE SEARCHERS FANTASTIC SOUND ONE OF THE VERY BEST TO COME FROM THE 60S SCENE THANK YOU.
Wow, what a beautifully written song. Timeless and tells such a beautiful story. Pam Tillis also did a great cover of this song too. The Ventures guitarist Nokie Edwards also made a great instrumental of this very song. Iconic and nostalgic message in this song. Such deep meaning.
We used to play this song during our sets. I played lead on my 12 string. I never tried when we played it. Brings back memories of a better time. George lead guitar player The Way West.
😅love this song. I play it over & over
Still a great song ❤
Für mich einer der schönsten Songs der 60er Jahre!
Kedvenc zenekarom volt, számaikat sokat játszották nálunk a nyaralóhelyen, sokat táncoltam erre a számra is. Nagyon szeretem őket.
I always loved that Merseybeat.
Great song
Lots of this mid sixties stuff helped me unravel the dark art of singing live harmonies.
Praise the Lord, I was young and impressionable in the 1960 's, when the music changed. From Jeff Walker in Chch
Remembering the Late
Tony Jackson.
Original Searcher before Frank Allan.
# Best Voice 5 ☆☆☆☆☆
Saw them live in ‘65 , I was 16 ,
Me too, and I was 16 at the time. Loved those days ...
I was 17,and not much more mature now.
Always loved this song, since i first heard it in '64. Every version i loved, no matter whose singing it. Jackie is the best.
My all-time favorite Searchers record!!.. loved the jangling guitar sound and the harmonies!!
Rickenbacker 12 String.
Spot on Carlos!!....Great guitar sounds and brilliant harmonies...all very typical of 1960s music!!
@@GSP21 It was actually a Burns 12 string. It's in the photo at the end of the video.
@@jameslundy8951 once Mike saw George Harrison's US model 360/12 he traded his Gibson ES-345 for the Rose Morris 1993 model in 1964. He first used it on "When You Walk In The Room" and from then on he used it extensively in the studio and on tour until it was stolen in 1969.
@@GSP21 so does it means the Seachers guitarist imitated the jingly sound from Harrison and not in backwards? I've read on someplace the Seachers were the first ones with this sound...
Original line up- Mike Pender- lead vocals and lead guitar/ Tony Jackson-bass guitar and back up vocals/ John McNally- rythym guitar and back up vocals/ Chris Curtis- drums and back up vocals. Frank Allen replaced Jackson in 1965 and also sang lead.
The Searchers was the ONLY concert l have been to see. They were Co- starring with Bobby Vee. Never heard of either of them by the time went to College, but my friend and l had a great , screaming time!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
As a young boy remember hearing this 💎 playing on my fathers tape recorder-considered one of their best and most enduring songs it's been one of my favorite songs for over 50yrs thanks for the pist Auckland New Zealand 2023
Echt super, die Searchers. !!!
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Wonderful, in this Time , Iam was an Teenager. Inthe last Time the Hit's very, very good. I am remembering.
Een van de betere nummers van de jaren ' 60 !!!!!!
Great tune!
I just love this song 🎶 ❤
A British Invasion classic.
what can u say,total class.
Saw them on stage at the Granada, Kettering in 1964.. still brillant in my book!
Classic, use to listen to this on WKBW-am radio
Me too! Buffalo NY and St. Catharines, Ontario. What great times!
My brother loved this song. We lost him to cancer at the age of forty. Every time I hear this it brings him back to me, with tears.
So sorry Letty, it’s a great tune, hope it will also bring back good memories of your brother
@@Cloquet1 Thank you, Paul, you're right it does. 😊❤️
Under-rated group. Led the way for many to come, starting with The Byrds, featuring jangly guitar sound and really good harmonies.
Saw them live last night wow wow what a great evening. This is my favorite.
Probably the Searchers best effort at a pop hit. A straight lift from Jackie deShannon's original but that is no bad thing.
An effort? It is unique&amazing.
They had an even bigger hit in the U.S. with the Sonny Bono composition "Needles and Pins."
@@andyinoregon I think that Sonny Bono got the royalties from Needles and Pins but Jackie De Shannon has always claimed that it was she who wrote it. What is not disputed is that The Searchers based their version on Jackie De Shannon's.
@@perkinscrane copy Jackie De Shannon as close as you can, and you can't go far wrong.
@@andyinoregon LOVED NEEDLES AND PINS.
We have all had that wonderful. Experience.
Great Era.
What a song.
Biddy the best days ever 60s and 70s
Here, here!
This DeShannon song has been covered by 104 different artists! MIND BLOWING!
Brilliant saw them in 60s in the Isle of man at the Villa marina, TT week
That Burns 12 string is off the chart cool
My favorite song love it.❤❤
Très beau souvenir. Toute une époque
THE BEST VERSION
Fantastic song loveit ❤❤❤❤
Das war noch Musik , ganz große Klasse .
I love this song
Fantastic version!
Seen them 4 times unreal
You mean:That you seen them was unreal, or it was unreal that you seen them 4 times?
That I saw them
@@1954rocknroll what’s the matter son you jelous
@@Rose06091 🙄🙄
Steve Forbert did a quite good remake in the 80's - but the original is always on top!
Peter Popp Jackie De Shannon wrote and sang the oriiginal!.
Peter, ha ha, you asked for it there!
The interview with Rick Beato and Michael McDonald brought me here (where Michael talks about this guitar lick influencing the Beatles).
Saw them in there heyday Brilliant Band
Wonderful song. Inspired That Thing You Do movie. These guitars sound so awesome. A shame they cost around $4,000 now.
Still trying to act nochalant...good memories. Stralylia Summer n End o High School. Sutho Sydney. Keep makin the big entre fems.
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