[PzLdr]

Wrote my favorite tune [with Jack Nitszche], “Needles and Pins”.

[webrover]

IS that the same “Needles & Pins” done by the Searchers in the Summer of ‘64.

[dennisw]

Jack Nitszche.... The guy who wrote the Neil Young book is writing one on Nitsche who was a self made genius. Unsung genius

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Nitzsche

[Fiji Hill]

Wrote my favorite tune [with Jack Nitszche], “Needles and Pins”.

Indeed, "Needles and Pins" by Jackie De Shannon, from the spring of 1963, was a solid hummer, as was Nitzsche's "The Lonely Surfer" from the summer of '63.