Sugar & Spice – THE SEARCHERS***

Sugar & Spice/Don’t Cha Know/Some Other Guy/One Of These Days/Listen To Me/Unhappy Girls/(Ain’t That) Just Like Me/Oh My Lover/Saints & Searchers/Cherry Stones/All My Sorrows/Hungry For Love

The Searchers quickly followed their debut album with a similar package of pop and rock & roll covers. Sugar & Spice featured the bouncy title track UK No. 2 hit single. (UK:5)

"The Searchers' 1963 LP Sugar & Spice was typical of most early British Invasion albums, built around one hit and 11 covers of American rock & roll standards."

"Its better than the average period artefact, due to the group's always enjoyable harmonies and arrangements. Actually, nearly half of the tracks are first-rate."

"The Searchers' first album Meet The Searchers set the tone for upfront melodic Merseybeat and Sugar & Spice continued in a similar vein."

"Its all good stuff with energy, although I particularly like the slow song, All My Sorrows."

"Buddy Holly would seem a strong inspiration for songs like Sugar & Spice."

"The group seem to have been unable or unwilling to update their crisply optimistic, teen-beat pop sound."

"They boasted a sound which was totally unique among the British 1960s beat boom bands, built around a chiming 12-string guitar and Everly Brothers styled close vocal harmonies. Moreover, they almost invariably chose exactly the right songs to suit their musical strengths."