743 The Searchers “Don’t Throw Your Love Away” 1964

“The Searchers were one of the best groups to emerge from the Mersey scene. Mike Predergast (1941- ) and John McNally (1941- ) originally teamed up as an instrumental duo, naming themselves the Searchers after the John Wayne movie…The Searchers toured the States in April 1964 during which time they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. After seeing them, noted jazz critic Nat Hentoff commented, ‘the initial impression was more favourable musically than had been the case with the Beatles and the Dave Clark Five’” (Bell Harry, The British Invasion: How the Beatles and Other UK Bands Conquered America, 2004).    

The Searchers “Don’t Throw Your Love Away”