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“Sweets for My Sweet” is a song written by the songwriting team of Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, originally recorded by The Drifters. The group’s first single featuring Charlie Thomas on lead vocal, “Sweets for My Sweet” reached #16 (#10 R&B) in October 1961. This was one of the few post-1958 Drifters singles that did not feature a string section. It also featured four female backup vocalists, all of whom would later have hit records, Cissy Houston, Doris Troy, Dionne Warwick, and Dee Dee Warwick. In 1963, “Sweets for My Sweet” became the debut single for Merseybeat band The Searchers, reaching number one on the UK Single Chart for two weeks that August. The Searchers’ version was also issued in the US in the spring of 1964 but failed to chart. “Sweets for My Sweet”... Read on...