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This article is about the Australian music group. For other uses, see The Seekers (disambiguation). The Seekers were a group of Australian folk-influenced popular musicians which was formed in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1962. They were the first Australian popular music group to achieve significant chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States. The Seekers may refer to: The Seekers, an Australian folk-influenced pop group The Seekers, a British 60s newspaper comic strip The Seekers, a 1998 non-fiction book of cultural history in the knowledge trilogy Seekers, the British historical religious group Seekers (Transformers), several jet-based characters in the Transformers...
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The New Seekers was an Australian pop group, formed in 1969 by Keith Potger after the break-up of his group, The Seekers. ...
Judith Durham Judith Durham (born Judith Mavis Cock on July 3, 1943) was a jazz singer who became the lead singer for the Australian popular folk music group The Seekers in 1964. ...
Athol Guy (born January 5, 1940, in Colac, Victoria, Australia), is one of the members of the Australian pop music-folk music group The Seekers. ...
Keith Potger (born March 2, 1941) at Columbo in Sri Lanka, is one of the members of the Australian pop-folk group The Seekers. ...
Bruce Woodley (born July 25, 1942 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), is an Australian songwriter, singer and guitarist, best known as a member of the successful pop-folk group The Seekers, and as composer of the song I Am Australian. // Main article: The Seekers Before joining the Seekers, Bruce Woodley had...
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Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including: Traditional music: The original meaning of the term folk music was synonymous with the term Traditional music, also often including World Music and Roots music; the term Traditional music was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the...
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They had nine hits in Britain and Australia in the 1960s: "I'll Never Find Another You", "A World of Our Own", "The Carnival Is Over" (which The Seekers have sung at various closing ceremonies in Australia, including Expo '88 and the Paralympics), "Someday One Day", "Walk With Me", "Morningtown Ride", "Georgy Girl" (the title song of the film of the same name), "When Will The Good Apples Fall" and "Emerald City". Athol Guy (born January 5, 1940, in Colac, Victoria, Australia), is one of the members of the Australian pop music-folk music group The Seekers. ...
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Keith Potger (born March 2, 1941) at Columbo in Sri Lanka, is one of the members of the Australian pop-folk group The Seekers. ...
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Bruce Woodley (born July 25, 1942 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), is an Australian songwriter, singer and guitarist, best known as a member of the successful pop-folk group The Seekers, and as composer of the song I Am Australian. // Main article: The Seekers Before joining the Seekers, Bruce Woodley had...
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The Seekers usually end their concerts singing The Carnival is Over, and the song, being sung by The Seekers, has become a tradition to close some of the special events within Australia. ...
Expo 88 - as seen from the Brisbane River (photo taken from Victoria Bridge) Expo 88 - showing a globe of the world (photo taken from Victoria Bridge) Expo 88 at night (photo taken from Victoria Bridge) Expo 88 was a Worlds Fair held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia between April 30...
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Bruce Woodley and Dobe Newton's "I Am Australian", which has been recorded by The Seekers, and by singer Judith Durham with Russell Hitchcock and Mandauway Yunupingu, has become an unofficial Australian anthem.
History
An Australian band The Seekers were formed by Athol Guy, double bass, and guitarists Keith Potger and Bruce Woodley, who all attended Melbourne High School. Their lead singer was Ken Ray, who later left the group to get married. His place was taken by Judith Durham who was an established trad jazz singer, having recorded an EP with the Melbourne group Frank Traynor's Jazz Preachers (she was replaced by Margaret RoadKnight). The Seekers soon gathered a strong following in Melbourne and Durham's connections with W&G Records led to the group being offered a contract. Athol Guy (born January 5, 1940, in Colac, Victoria, Australia), is one of the members of the Australian pop music-folk music group The Seekers. ...
Keith Potger (born March 2, 1941) at Columbo in Sri Lanka, is one of the members of the Australian pop-folk group The Seekers. ...
Bruce Woodley (born July 25, 1942 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), is an Australian songwriter, singer and guitarist, best known as a member of the successful pop-folk group The Seekers, and as composer of the song I Am Australian. // Main article: The Seekers Before joining the Seekers, Bruce Woodley had...
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Judith Durham Judith Durham (born Judith Mavis Cock on July 3, 1943) was a jazz singer who became the lead singer for the Australian popular folk music group The Seekers in 1964. ...
Discovery in the UK After a brief career in Australia, The Seekers were offered the chance to travel to the U.K. on the Sitmar cruise liner Fairsky, in exchange for providing on-board entertainment. They had intended to return to Australia ten weeks later on the same ship, but on arrival in the UK they were offered work by the prestigious Grade Organisation. The Sky Wonder (formerly Pacific Sky and Sky Princess) first entered service in 1984, and as of May 2006 operates in the Pullmantur Cruises fleet. ...
The group decided to remain in the UK and after filling on a bill headlined by Dusty Springfield, they met up with her brother, songwriter-producer Tom Springfield, who had experience with folk-pop material with his earlier group The Springfields. He penned a song for them called "I'll Never Find Another You", which they recorded in November 1964. It was released by EMI Records (on the Columbia label) in December 1964 and was championed by the pirate radio station Radio Caroline. Despite the fact that the group had not signed a contract with EMI, the single reached the UK Top 40 and quickly began selling. In February 1965, it reached #1 in the U.K. and Australia, and #4 in the U.S. where it was released on EMI's Capitol label. Dusty Springfield OBE (16 April 1939 - 2 March 1999) was a popular English singer whose career spanned four decades. ...
Born Dion OBrien on 2nd July 1934 in Hampstead, London, England, Tom Springfield was the brother of Dusty Springfield and an important figure in the 1960s folk and pop music scene. ...
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The distinctive and soaring soprano voice of lead singer Judith Durham, the group's sweet harmonies, memorable songs, and non-threatening image encouraged the BBC to give them exposure, making them appealing to a broad cross-section of the pop audience.
Remarkable string of hits "I'll Never Find Another You" sold 1.75 million copies worldwide, and made The Seekers the first Australian pop group to have a Top 5 hit in all three countries (Australia, UK, and United States) simultaneously. They were also the first Australian recording artists to sell more than a million copies of a single. The Seekers followed "I'll Never Find Another You" with two more Tom Springfield compositions, "A World of Our Own" (which reached #1 in May 1965 in the UK) and "The Carnival Is Over", which reached #1 in November. At its peak, "The Carnival Is Over" was selling 90,000 copies a day in the U.K. alone. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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The Seekers usually end their concerts singing The Carnival is Over, and the song, being sung by The Seekers, has become a tradition to close some of the special events within Australia. ...
The Seekers usually end their concerts singing The Carnival is Over, and the song, being sung by The Seekers, has become a tradition to close some of the special events within Australia. ...
In 1966, they recorded Paul Simon’s "Someday, One Day", which reached #4 in Australia and #11 in the UK. This was Simon's first UK success as a writer, and his first hit as a composer outside of his work with Simon & Garfunkel. Bruce Woodley co-wrote several songs with Simon at this time, including "Red Rubber Ball" which became a US #1 single for The Cyrkle. Also co-written with Simon were "I Wish You Could Be Here", and "Cloudy", which was included on the Simon & Garfunkel release, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, but without a Woodley writing credit. Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, half of the folk-singing duo Simon and Garfunkel who continues a successful solo career. ...
Bridge Over Troubled Water was Simon and Garfunkels last album; the title track was their only number one hit in the United Kingdom. ...
Bruce Woodley (born July 25, 1942 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), is an Australian songwriter, singer and guitarist, best known as a member of the successful pop-folk group The Seekers, and as composer of the song I Am Australian. // Main article: The Seekers Before joining the Seekers, Bruce Woodley had...
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After returning to Australia in early 1966, The Seekers filmed their first television special, At Home With The Seekers. The Seekers were named Best New Artists at the 1966 New Musical Express Poll Winners Awards and they appeared at the celebratory Wembley Arena concert, on a bill that included The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield and The Animals. The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a weekly magazine about popular music published in the UK. It is unlike many other popular music magazines due to its intended focus on guitar-based music and indie rock bands, instead of mainstream pop acts. ...
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The same year, the group appeared at a Royal Command Performance at the London Palladium, before the Queen Mother. The Royal Command Performance is an annual music festival event, originally first staged in the Palace Theatre in 1912, in front of King George V and Queen Mary. ...
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Malvina Reynolds' "Morningtown Ride" was the Seekers' sixth major hit, reaching #1 on the British Charts in December 1966. The single had been recorded earlier on the 1964 album "Hide and Seekers" but, for copyright reasons, the song was re-recorded for The Seekers' Christmas 1966 single. Ear to the Ground, a posthumous release of Malvina Reynolds recordings on the Folkways label, 2000. ...
Their biggest US hit is "Georgy Girl" (#1 in Feb 67, #3 in the UK), for which the Seekers were awarded a Gold Record for 1 million copies sold in the United States.[1] Jim Dale and Tom Springfield were nominated by the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for best song of 1967. They lost out to Leslie Bricusse. The recording sold 3.5 million copies. Georgy Girl is a 1966 British film, based on a novel by Margaret Forster. ...
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Triumphant return to Australia In March 1967, The Seekers returned to Australia for a triumphant homecoming tour, which included a record-breaking concert at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, attended by more than 200,000 people. This concert was listed in the 1993 Guinness Book Of World Records as the largest concert crowd ever gathered in the southern hemisphere. Vision of the appearance was incorporated into their 1967 Australian television spectacular The Seekers At Home and Down Under, which was screened on the Seven Network and drew a record rating of 67, and it still remains in the Top 10 Most Watched Television Specials in Australian history. Image File history File links The_Seekers_dvd. ...
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In January 1968, in recognition of their many achievements, the group was named Australians of the Year for 1967 and accepted their award during a triumphant Australian tour. During their 1968 visit, the group also filmed another television spectacular, The World of The Seekers, which was screened in cinemas, before being screened nationally on the Nine Network to phenomenal ratings. The Australian of the Year Awards commenced in 1960. ...
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Later in 1968, Judith Durham made the shock announcement that she was leaving The Seekers to pursue a solo career, and the group disbanded. Their final performance in July 1968 was screened live by the BBC as a special called Farewell The Seekers, with an audience of more than 10 million viewers.
The special had been preceded by a week-long season at London's Talk Of The Town nightclub, and a live recording of one of their shows was released as the LP record, The Seekers Say Goodbye Live From The Talk Of The Town. It reached #2 on the U.K. charts. Also in July 1968, the compilation album The Seekers' Greatest Hits was released and spent 17 weeks at #1 in Australia. It was known as "The Best of the Seekers" in the UK and spent one week at #1 in February 1969, managing to knock The Beatles (White Album) off the top of the charts. The album spent 125 weeks in the charts in the UK. The UK version of the album, known as The Best of The Seekers The Seekers Greatest Hits was released in Australia by EMIs Columbia label (Catalogue No. ...
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Following the split, the solo careers of the artists struggled, and lapsed into obscurity (many attribute it to their lack of success in the US). Judith Durham released a Christmas album For Christmas With Love (recorded in Hollywood, California) and later signed with A&M Records, releasing two albums, A Gift of Song and Climb Ev'ry Mountain. Keith Potger formed the successful group The New Seekers in the UK. Bruce Woodley would release several solo albums and focus on songwriting, eventuating in the unofficial national anthem "I Am Australian". Eventually Potger re-joined Woodley and Guy in reforming The Seekers in 1975 with Louisa Wisseling, then Julie Anthony in the 1980s, and then Karen Knowles, but the unique timbre and perfect pitch of Durham's voice was missing from their sound. Durham later rejoined the group in 1992. Woodley himself left for a time in the 1970s and was replaced with Buddy England, before rejoining in the 1980s. Judith Durham Judith Durham (born Judith Mavis Cock on July 3, 1943) was a jazz singer who became the lead singer for the Australian popular folk music group The Seekers in 1964. ...
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The New Seekers was an Australian pop group, formed in 1969 by Keith Potger after the break-up of his group, The Seekers. ...
Bruce Woodley (born July 25, 1942 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), is an Australian songwriter, singer and guitarist, best known as a member of the successful pop-folk group The Seekers, and as composer of the song I Am Australian. // Main article: The Seekers Before joining the Seekers, Bruce Woodley had...
I Am/We are Australian is a popular Australian song written in 1987 by Bruce Woodley of The Seekers and Dobe Newton of The Bushwackers. ...
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Buddy England (born in England), was a former member of The Seekers, briefly replacing Bruce Woodley. ...
The Seekers in the 1990s and 2000s The Seekers re-united late in 1992, with the original lineup of Guy, Potger, Woodley and Durham. A 25 Year Silver Jubilee Reunion Celebration tour in 1993 was so successful that The Seekers remained together for a further 11 years. They staged several sell-out tours of Australia, New Zealand, and the U.K., released several albums, including new studio albums Future Road and Morningtown Ride to Christmas.
In 1995, they were inducted into the ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) Hall Of Fame, and were the subjects of a special issue of Australian postage stamps. [1], [2] The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry. ...
After much speculation (including a parody of the coming event by ABC TV's Olympics satire The Games) The Seekers reunited again for the closing ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games on 29 October 2000, with a performance of "The Carnival Is Over". Judith Durham had suffered a broken hip and performed at the Paralympics in a wheelchair. The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp, 1920. ...
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On 1 September 2006, having ceased touring, The Seekers were presented with the Key to the City by Melbourne's Lord Mayor, The Honourable John So. is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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See also This is an alphabetical list of songs performed by the Australian pop / folk group The Seekers — on record and live in concert. ...
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The New Seekers was an Australian pop group, formed in 1969 by Keith Potger after the break-up of his group, The Seekers. ...
References - ^ The Seekers At Home and Down Under — VHS and DVD releases
- Information about the Seekers - Australian Heritage Database
- The Seekers stamps - How to fit four giants on to a postage stamp sheet? - Australia Post official website
- The Seekers stamps - at Australia Post official website
- The Seekers - Australian of the Year - 1967 Award - Australian of the Year official website
- Information about the Seekers - Lord Mayor's Charitable Fund
- 'The Judith Durham Story - Colours Of My Life' by Graham Simpson (Random House, 1994, 1998, 2000), (Virgin Books, 2004).
- "The Dictionary of Performing Arts in Australia — Opera . Music . Dance — Volume 2" — Ann Atkinson, Linsay Knight, Margaret McPhee — Allen & Unwin Pty. Ltd., 1996
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