• Friends

Beside The Beatles, The Searchers were the only British group of the era who had most of the records issued in stereo at the time. Although a number of the UK Pye albums were issued in mono only, the US Kapp label issued all of their albums in stereo, and were almost completely in true stereo. Subsequent UK Castle and Santuary CD reissues have been very sloppy in using stereo masters. [Although others may say credit is due to the reissue companies for using the original (and better known) mono mixes.]