What song reached number 13 on the US charts in 1964 by a famous merseybeat group? (7,3,4)

McGruff

Needles and Pins The Searchers had a hit in 1963 Sweet For My Sweet, which leaped to the top of the UK charts. The Drifters originally recorded it and Mort Shuman wrote it. They targeted a hit in 1964 with Needles and Pins, US. Chart #13 and British chart #1, co-written by Jack Nitzsche and Sonny Bono. It is my favorite Searchers song, competing with Love Potion Number 9, which hit the Top Ten in the U.S. The Beatles were the first group from Liverpool to score a hit and The Searchers were second. Two six-string guitars are playing in the intro (Needles and Pins), which sounds like a 12-string, as the echo switch is still on because the engineer luckily forgot to turn it off and decided it sounded great, so it is said. They definitely had a unique guitar sound in 1963. The were originally a skiffle group founded in 1957 by John McNally and Mike Pender. Apparently, they were John Wayne fans, as they got their name from his 1956 Western called The Searchers. http://deltachord.tennerblog.com/category/56/merseyside-merseybeat.html Nov 26 07, 10:12 AM