“Take It Or Leave It” / “Don’t Hide It Away” (Pye 7N. 17094) April 1966
The Searchers | Take It Or Leave It | (Pye) 1966 | This Jagger – Richard song should make it for the Searchers. It’s a track from the new Stones LP and the Searchers do it in similar style, but with that light-edged vocal sound. Needs a couple of plays to establish itself fully. A smooth, very smooth, production. Top Fifty Tip. (Record Mirror, 16/04/66)
Ex-Searcher Chris joins Pye as a producer
CHRIS CURTIS has joined Pye as a record producer! The drummer has quit the limelight of being a Searcher to become a “backroom boy” with a contract that is almost unique for an a-and-r man—for Pye managing director Louis Benjamin has told him to record who and what he likes.
The three-year contract with Pye was negotiated by Searchers’ agent Tito Burns, whom Chris has appointed his manager. By the deal, Chris can also record himself with any instrumental or vocal combination he chooses—so he is likely to remain an artist.
Speaking from his Liverpool home on Wednesday, Chris told the NME that he may also be associated with future Searchers’ recordings. He has collaborated with Tony Hatch on the arrangements for their previous hits and picked most of the songs including the Mick Jagger – Keith Richard composition “Take It Or Leave It” which is the Searchers’ latest single.
• The Searchers‘ new drummer is John Blunt who has been deputising for Chris since he stepped out of the group suffering from overstrain. (NME, 22/04/66)
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