The Seekers - The Ultimate Collection (2003)

The Seekers were an Australian folk-influenced pop group 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 especially popular during the 1960s, with their best-known configuration of 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 "I'll Never Find Another You", "A World of Our Own", "Morningtown Ride", "Someday, One Day", "Georgy Girl" and "The Carnival Is Over". 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". In 1967, they were named as joint "Australians of the Year" – the only group thus honoured. In July 1968, Durham left to pursue a solo career and the group disbanded. Keith Potger formed a new group in the UK, the New Seekers, which had a hit single in 1971 with "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing".

In 1995, the Seekers were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. "I'll Never Find Another You" 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 "I Am Australian", which was recorded by the Seekers as well as Durham with Russell Hitchcock and Mandawuy Yunupingu, has become an unofficial Australian anthem. With "I'll Never Find Another You" and "Georgy Girl", the group also achieved success in the United States, but not nearly at the same level as in the rest of the world. The Seekers have sold over 50 million records worldwide and were individually honoured as Officers of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 2014.

Tracks:

01. Come The Day
02. I'll Never Find Another You
03. The Wreck Of The Old 97
04. A World Of Our Own
05. Dese Bones Gwine Rise Again
06. When Will The Good Apples Fall
07. Myra
08. Love Is Kind, Love Is Wine
09. Morningtown Ride
10. Someday, One Day
11. The Leaving Of Liverpool
12. Keep A Dream In Your Pocket
13. Kumbaya
14. On The Other Side
15. The Carinval Is Over
16. Allentown Jail
17. The Shores Of Avalon
18. We're Movin' On
19. The Bush Girl
20. You Can Tell The World
21. Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
22. Georgy Girl
23. Colours Of My Life
24. Far Shore
25. I Am Australian
26. Massachusetts