01 - Come the Day (Woodley)
02 - Island of Dreams (Springfield)
03 - The Last Thing on My Mind (Paxton)
04 - All Over the World (Hardy, More)
05 - Red Rubber Ball (Simon, Woodley)
06 - Well, Well, Well (Camp, Gibson)
07 - Georgy Girl (Dale, Springfield)
08 - Yesterday (Lennon, McCartney)
09 - I Wish You Could Be Here (Simon, Woodley)
10 - Turn, Turn, Turn (Seeger)
11 - Louisiana Man (Kershaw)
12 - California Dreamin' (Philips)
The Seekers
Formed: 1963 in Australia
Disbanded: 1968
Biography by Bruce Eder, All Music
Although it's difficult for those who weren't there to believe, for a short time during late 1965 and early 1966 the popularity of this singing quartet from Australia was sufficient to rival the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. The Seekers were at the head of the British Invasion's acoustic folk-rock division, right there with Peter & Gordon and Chad & Jeremy but without the personal Beatles connection of the former, and more successful than either -- they scored a string of number one hits in England and Top Ten successes in the U.S. that lasted into 1967, two years later than most of the rest of the British exports to America. They played acoustic instruments (even the upright bass), and they were closer in image and inspiration to the likes of the Rooftop Singers ("Walk Right In"), the New Christy Minstrels ("Green Green," etc.), or Peter, Paul and Mary than to the Beatles or even the Searchers, yet they managed to hang onto young listeners, as well as older teenagers and their parents, with songs like "I'll Never Find Another You," "A World of Our Own," "Come the Day," and "Georgy Girl."
The Seekers were formed in Australia in 1963 by Athol Guy (vocals, bass; b. January 5, 1940, Victoria, Australia), Keith Potger (vocals, 12-string guitar; b. March 2, 1941, Colombo, Sri Lanka), and Bruce Woodley (vocals, guitar; b. July 25, 1942, Melbourne, Australia), who had all attended Melbourne Boys High School together. Potger had led a band in the late '50s called the Trinamics, doing covers of Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, et al., while Guy had led a band called the Ramblers. The breakup of both groups got the two of them together with Woodley and a singer named Ken Ray, and they formed a doo wop outfit called the Escorts. By 1963, the folk boom that had started sweeping America and England in 1959 had made its way to Australia, and the Escorts evolved into the Seekers.
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