Their debut single was the traditional historic Australian bush ballad from 1894, " Waltzing Matilda", which appeared in November and reached the Melbourne "Top 40" singles chart. Their debut album, " Introducing the Seekers", was released in 1963. Durham's connections with W&G Records led to the group's later signing a recording contract with the label. The Seekers performed folk-influenced pop music and soon gathered a strong following in Melbourne. She was replaced in Traynor's jazz ensemble by Margret RoadKnight. ĭurham and Guy had met when they both worked in an advertising agency – initially Durham only sang periodically with the Seekers, when not performing at local jazz clubs. She had earlier recorded an extended play disc on W&G Records with the Melbourne group, Frank Traynor's Jazz Preachers. His place was taken by Judith Durham, an established traditional jazz singer who added a distinctive female lead voice. The Escorts had Ken Ray as the lead singer and in 1962 they became "The Seekers". In the late 1950s, Potger led The Trinamics, a rock 'n' roll group, Guy led the Ramblers and, with Woodley, they decided to form a doo-wop music group, the Escorts. Guy, Potger and Woodley had all attended Melbourne Boys High School in Victoria. The Seekers were formed in 1962 in Melbourne by Athol Guy on double bass, Keith Potger on twelve-string guitar and Bruce Woodley on guitar. The Seekers were individually honoured as Officers of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 2014. The Seekers have sold over 50 million records worldwide. With "I'll Never Find Another You" and "Georgy Girl", the band also achieved success in the United States, but not nearly at the same level as in the rest of the world.
Woodley's and Dobe Newton's song " I Am Australian", which was recorded by The Seekers, and by Durham with Russell Hitchcock and Mandawuy Yunupingu, has become an unofficial Australian anthem.
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"I'll Never Find Another You" was added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Sounds of Australia registry in 2011.
The band has reformed periodically, and in 1995 they were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. In July 1968, Durham left to pursue a solo career and the group disbanded. In 1967, they were named as joint " Australians of the Year" – the only group thus honoured. Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described their style as "concentrated on a bright, uptempo sound, although they were too pop to be considered strictly folk and too folk to be rock." It is still one of the top 50 best-selling singles in the UK. The group had Top 10 hits in the 1960s with " I'll Never Find Another You", " A World of Our Own", " Morningtown Ride", " Someday, One Day" (written by Paul Simon), " Georgy Girl" (the title song of the film of the same name), and " The Carnival Is Over" by Tom Springfield, the last being an adaptation of the Russian folk song " Stenka Razin". They were popular during the 1960s with their best-known configuration as: Judith Durham on vocals, piano, and tambourine Athol Guy on double bass and vocals Keith Potger on twelve-string guitar, banjo, and vocals and Bruce Woodley on guitar, mandolin, banjo, and vocals. They were the first Australian pop music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States. The Seekers are an Australian folk-influenced pop quartet, originally formed in Melbourne in 1962. The British band The New Seekers recorded a version of the song in 1976.The Seekers in 1965. Merle Haggard who, in his 1981 autobiography, "Sing Me Back Home", would confess his infatuation with Parton, also recorded the song. Nelly Furtado covered this song for the film The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom. Two decades later, Parton rerecorded the song for her 1995 album Something Special. A spiritual, which Parton described as her "talk with God", the song was released as a single in July 1975, just missing the top spot on the U.S. It was released as the first single from Parton's 1975 album, Dolly, and was also a top ten single on the U.S. "The Seeker" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Dolly Parton.
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