The Very Best of the Seekers

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Great CD
I bought this CD for one track in particular. I found out that I really enjoyed the rest of the songs on the CD. Nice sound quality.

Baby Boomers here they are
This is the Pop/Folk group that topped the Beatles, the Kinks, and the Rolling Stones in 1967 with the Song Georgy Girl. They also had international hits, I'll Never Find Another You, A World of our Own, Morningtown Ride, and many others. They were the first Australians to sell a million records in the US. What a great way to go back to a slower time in our lives.

Fine music, fine voices
A lot of folk groups deserved the merciless skewering delivered by Christopher Guest's "A Mighty Wind". What separates The Seekers from that horrid morass of Terminal Earnestness inflicted on pop culture in early sixties? A few things: One, the writing of Tom Springfield (Dusty's brother) who was responsible for two of their finest songs (World of Our Own, I'll Never Find Another You). Two, the fine harmonies of the group. Three, the lovely voice of Judith Durham. (I would bet that more than a few men now in their fifties had a teenage crush on Ms. Durham.) What also comes through is a respect for the material. Some folk musicians, even some great ones, don't take too much care with things like notes or diction or phrasing, as long as the emotional content is delivered right on cue. That sometimes works, but often the result is a recording which gets wearisome on repeated listening. In contrast, take the Seekers' version of "Danny Boy", a song which is usually done in an over-emotional lachrymose fashion. Here it's done rather simply, which makes its message all the more powerful. There are a few clunkers on this disc--I don't care if I ever hear "Kumbayah" ever again. Their big hit "Georgy Girl" hasn't aged well--yes, it's still classic bouncy BritPop, but the message ("fix yourself up so you can catch a guy") is a tad out of step with 21st century thought. Still, the disc is worth the purchase price just for "World of our Own" and "I'll never find another you", and if you like any of the others, that's just lagniappe.

Actually this one does have the Very Best of the Seekers
I have no problem with the idea that the Seekers were the most popular Australian group of the early Sixties mainly because off the top of my head I could not think of another Australian group from that time period until somebody reminded me of the Bee Gees but they moved down under and they were certainly not as big as the Seekers were at that time, so there. But from late 1965 to about 1967 the Seekers were the hottest part of the folk-rock segment of the British Invasion on the strength of their hits "A World of Our Own Pop Singles" (#19), "I'll Never Find Another You" (#4), and "Georgy Girl" (#2). I have to admit, I always thought of them in the same breath as the New Christy Minstrels and the Rooftop Singers than Peter & Gordon or Chad & Jeremy. The Seekers consisted of high school classmates Athol Guy on (upright) bass, Keith Potger on 12-string guitar, and Bruce Woodley on guitar, who were joined by singer Judith Durham, who was actually a jazz-singer with perfect pitch dabbling in singing folk songs. The other important figure in their story was Tom Springfield, the brother of singer Dusty Springfield, who wrote most of their top hits once the group got to England. There they also met a young Paul Simon, who wrote "Someday One Day" for the Seekers. What makes "The Very Best of the Seekers" worthy of the hyperbolic title is that in addition to all of the group's recognizable hits it includes their versions of several folk standards, from the traditional "Whiskey in the Jar" to Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind." The more folk albums you listen to from the Sixties the more you will discover that you can find covers of the same songs over and over again, which in this case means the Seekers doing "Kumbaya," "Lemon Tree," "Five Hundred Miles," "The Gypsy Rover," and "The Water is Wide." Then for good measure there are some Australian songs, both familiar ("Waltzing Matilda") and not ("South Australia"). The best thing I can say about this album is that even without all of the essentially hits of the Seekers it would still be worth having.

Brilliant sixties folk-pop group
This isn't truly the best of the Seekers but it contains all the essentials. The first half of the collection contains all their hit singles and a couple of other tracks, while the second half is a re-issue of their debut album - an interesting collection of folk songs. Because the hits are all at the beginning, you can always play those on their own, which I sometimes do if I'm in a particular mood.They had five huge hits in the UK - I'll never find another you, A world of our own, The carnival is over, Morningtown ride and Georgy girl. Three of them went all the way to number one and the other two came close. In America, Georgy girl was their biggest hit though A world of our own also made thr top five. They gained further recognition via Sonny James, who covered I'll never find another you and A world of our own, taking them to the top of the country charts.Someday one day, Walk with me, When will the good apples fall and Emerald city were less successful but still excellent. Island of dreams is a cover of a song that was a top five UK hit for the Springfields - a group that included Tom Springfield, who became producer for the Seekers after his sister, Dusty, went solo.The final twelve songs contain a mix of mostly traditional folk songs from Ireland, Australia and America, though there are one or two contemporary songs here, most famously Blowing in the wind.This is an excellent introduction to the music of the Seekers.