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| - The Seekers, as we know them, were formed in 1962, when Judith Durham, a young jazz singer, met Athol Guy, who sang and played bass in a folk trio called The Seekers with Bruce Woodley and Keith Potger. Judith was invited to join the boys that night, in a coffee bar in South Yarra (a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) called the Treble Clef. The trio went through their repertoire, and Judith joined in and improvised, creating the distinctive sound which would bring them so much success over the next few years.Potger went on to manufacture The New Seekers after the split of the Seekers.
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| - The Seekers are an Australian folk-influenced pop quartet, originally formed in Melbourne in 1962. They were the first Australian pop music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States. 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.The group had Top 10 hits in the 1960s with %22I'll Never Find Another You%22, %22A World of Our Own%22, %22Morningtown Ride%22, %22Someday, One Day%22 (written by Paul Simon), %22Georgy Girl%22 (the title song of the film of the same name), and %22The Carnival Is Over%22 by Tom Springfield, the last being an adaptation of the Russian folk song %22Stenka Razin%22. The Seekers have sung it at various closing ceremonies in Australia, including World Expo 88 and the Paralympics. It is still one of the top 50 best-selling singles in the UK. Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described their style as %22concentrated on a bright, uptempo sound, although they were too pop to be considered strictly folk and too folk to be rock.%22In 1968, they were named as joint %22Australians of the Year%22 – the only group thus honoured. In July of that year, Durham left to pursue a solo career and the group disbanded. The band has reformed periodically, and in 1995 they were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. %22I'll Never Find Another You%22 was added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Sounds of Australia registry in 2011. Woodley's and Dobe Newton's song %22I Am Australian%22, which was recorded by the Seekers, and by Durham with Russell Hitchcock and Mandawuy Yunupingu, has become an unofficial Australian anthem. With %22I'll Never Find Another You%22 and %22Georgy Girl%22, the band also achieved success in the United States, but not nearly at the same level as in the rest of the world. As of 2004, the Seekers have sold over 50 million records worldwide.The Seekers were individually honoured as Officers of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 2014.
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