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Needles and Pins (1963 song)
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| "Needles and Pins" | ||
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| Single by Jackie DeShannon | ||
| Writer | Jack Nitzsche, Sonny Bono | |
| "Needles and Pins" | |||||
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| Single by The Searchers | |||||
| B-side | "Saturday Night Out" | ||||
| Released | 1964 | ||||
| Format | 7" single | ||||
| Genre | Merseybeat | ||||
| Label | Pye 7N15594 | ||||
| The Searchers singles chronology | |||||
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- For other uses of Needles and Pins see Needles and Pins
"Needles and Pins" is a song by Jack Nitzsche and Sonny Bono.
The song's original was recorded by Jackie DeShannon in 1963, but her version barely made it into the top 100. The Searchers heard British performer Cliff Bennett perform "Needles and Pins" at a club in Hamburg, Germany, and instantly wanted it to be their next single. Soon after, in 1964, "Needles and Pins" appeared on the Searchers' next album, It's Fab! It's Gear! It's The Searchers. It made the top 20 in America and was number one in the United Kingdom.
Later in 1986, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with Stevie Nicks, recorded a live version of "Needles and Pins" for Pack up the Plantation: Live! which entered the top 40. Various other artists have recorded the song "Needles and Pins", including Crack The Sky (on their World in Motion 1 album)[1], Smokie, the Ramones (on their Road to Ruin album) as well as the swedish nationalrock-band Ultima Thule (on their "Blonda Svenska Vikingar" album) . Megadeth made use of a sample of the song for the introduction of "Use the Man" from their 1997 album Cryptic Writings.
- ^ Crack The Sky, World in Motion 1, LP Criminal #1696 (1983)
| Preceded by "Glad All Over" by Dave Clark Five |
UK number one single "Needles and Pins" by The Searchers January 30, 1964 (3 weeks) |
Succeeded by "Diane" by The Bachelors |
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