744 The Searchers “Needles and Pins” 1964

Jack Nitzsche “began working in a steel factory in Muskegon, Michigan, as a dance-band sax player at night. At the same time, Nitzsche took a correspondence course in orchestration, dreaming of working as a film composer. In pursuit of this dream he moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960s, where he began working with the various small labels. He met Sonny Bono (later of Sonny & Cher) who was then working for the small Specialty label, and the duo wrote a pop song, ‘Needles and Pins,’ that was later a top hit for the British Invasion group the Searchers” (Howard Ferstler, Frank Hoffman, Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound, 2005). 

The Searchers “Needles and Pins”