Don't Throw Your Love Away Explained

Don't Throw Your Love Away
Type:	single
Artist:	The Orlons
A-Side:	Bon-Doo-Wah
Released:	November 1963
Genre:	R&B
Length:	2:04
Label:	Cameo C-287
Prev Title:	Crossfire!
Prev Year:	1963
Bon-Doo-Wah
Title2:	Don't Throw Your Love Away
Next Title:	Shimmy Shimmy
Next Year:	1964

Don't Throw Your Love Away
Type:	single
Artist:	The Searchers
Album:	It's the Searchers
B-Side:	I Pretend I'm With You
Released:	April 1964
Recorded:	1963
Studio:	Pye Studios, London
Genre:	Merseybeat
Length:	2:17
Label:	Pye 7N15630 (UK)^[1] Kapp 593 (USA)
Producer:	Tony Hatch
Prev Title:	Needles and Pins
Prev Year:	1964
Next Title:	Someday We're Gonna Love Again
Next Year:	1964

"Don't Throw Your Love Away" is a song written by Billy Jackson and Jimmy Wisner that was originally released in 1963 by The Orlons. It was the B-side to "Bon-Doo-Wah", which peaked at No.55 in the US charts.

Cover Versions

• The Searchers released it in April 1964^[1] and went to No.1 on the UK Singles Chart^{[2] [3]} and the Irish Singles Chart; No.4 in Denmark, No. 3 on Canada's CHUM Chart,^[4] No.6 on 24 July 1964 on WLS,^[5] and No.16 on 11 July 1964 on the Hot 100.^[6]
• Elvis Costello and Amsterdam recorded a version of the song for Liverpool – The Number Ones Album released in 2008.^[7]

See also

• List of number-one singles of 1964 (Ireland)
• List of number-one singles from the 1960s (UK)

Notes and References

1. Book: Rice , Jo . 1982. The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits. 1st. Guinness Superlatives Ltd . Enfield, Middlesex. 78. 0-85112-250-7.
2. Book: Roberts , David . 2006. British Hit Singles & Albums. 19th. Guinness World Records Limited . London. 1-904994-10-5. 162–3.
3. Web site: Discography . The-searchers.co.uk . 2014-04-05 . 2014-04-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140407071022/http://www.the-searchers.co.uk/discog.htm . dead .
4. Web site: CHUM Hit Parade - July 20, 1964.
5. Web site: Silver Dollar Survey. WLS. 1964-07-24.
6. Web site: Hot 100. Billboard. 1964-07-11.
7. Web site: Number One Project. https://web.archive.org/web/20081205043842/http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/capital-of-culture/numberoneproject/. 5 December 2008. 20 June 2022. Liverpool Echo.