Monday May 4, 2020 “Love Potion Number 9” The Searchers

A while back I suggested that it may not be the best idea to find inspiration and direction from rock and roll but now I find myself putting that theory aside and wondering why didn’t this idea occur to us earlier. All the pharmaceutical companies, universities and scientists who are searching for a cure for the corona virus and all the time it was right under our noses (or ears in this case)…Madame Rue!

If only we had been listening to The Searchers (and The Clovers before them) we could have taken this problem to her and she would have simply ‘bent down and turned around and mixed it up right there in her sink’. If she can solve love’s problems, Madame Rue’s potions can be applied to anything.

Before their success with the remake of Love Potion #9, which was written by Jerry Lieber & Mike Stoller, the Searchers charted another remake ‘Needles and Pins(a)’ a song written by Sonny Bono who was half of Sonny & Cher, for those of us old enough to remember when Cher was a duo.

Madame Rue’s got a place on 34th and Vine so let’s jet over there and get her on this.

I took my troubles Rue
You know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth
She's got a pad on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
Sellin' little Number Nine

I told her that I was a flop with chicks
I've been this way since ninteen-fifty-six
She looked sign
She said "what you need is Love Potion Number Nine"

She bent down and turned around and gave me a wink
She said "I'm gonna here in the sink"
It smelled ink
I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink

I didn't know it was day or night
I started in sight
But when I kissed a cop at Thirty-Fourth and Vine
He broke Number Nine

I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink

I didn't know it was day or night
I started in sight
I had so much fun that I'm going back again
I wonder number ten?
Love Potion Number Nine
Love Potion Number Nine
Love Potion Number Nine