Needles and Pins (1963 song)
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| Artist = [[Jackie DeShannon]]
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{{Infobox Single <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Songs -->
| Name = Needles and Pins
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| Artist = [[The Searchers (band)|The Searchers]]
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| B-side = "[[Saturday Night Out]]"
| Released = 1964
| Format = [[7" single]]
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| Genre = [[Beat music|Merseybeat]]
| Length = 2:14
| Label = [[Pye]] 7N15594 (UK)<br>[[Kapp Records|Kapp]] 577 (USA)
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| Chart position = UK: #1
| Last single = "Sweet Nothins"<br>(1963)
| This single = "Needles and Pins"<br>(1964)
| Next single = "[[Don't Throw Your Love Away]]"<br>(1964)
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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]], originally recorded by [[Jackie DeShannon]]. Other hit versions of the song were recorded by [[The Searchers (band)|The Searchers]], [[Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers]] with [[Stevie Nicks]] and by [[The Ramones]].
==Jackie DeShannon version (1963)==
The song's original was recorded by [[Jackie DeShannon]] in [[1963]] and in the US, peaked at #84 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart in May of that year [See: ''Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990'', Record Research, Inc., Menomonee Falls WI, 1991]. Though it was only a minor US hit, DeShannon's recording of the song topped the charts in English Canada, hitting number one on the [[CHUM Chart]] in early 1963.
==The Seachers version (1964)==
[[The Searchers (band)|The Searchers]] heard [[United Kingdom|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 peaked at #13 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart in [[United States|America]] and was number one in the [[United Kingdom]].
==Other versions==
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 [[Willy DeVille]] on his 1999 (''[[Horse of a Different Color (Willy DeVille album)|Horse of a Different Color]]'' album), [[Crack The Sky]] (on their ''[[World in Motion 1]]'' album)<ref>Crack The Sky, ''World in Motion 1'', LP Criminal #1696 (1983)</ref>, [[Smokie (band)|Smokie]], [[Ramones|the Ramones]] (on their ''[[Road to Ruin (Ramones album)|Road to Ruin]]'' album) as well as the Swedish national rock-band [[Ultima Thule|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]]''.
==References==
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* ''Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990'' Record Research, Inc., Menomonee Falls WI, 1990 [[ISBN 0-89820-089-X]]
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| before = "[[Glad All Over]]" by [[Dave Clark Five]]
| title = [[List of number-one singles from the 1960s (UK)|UK number one single]]<br>"Needles and Pins" by [[The Searchers (band)|The Searchers]]
| years = [[January 30]], [[1964]] (3 weeks)
| after = "[[Diane (song)|Diane]]" by [[The Bachelors]]
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