A World Of Our Own – THE SEEKERS***

A World Of Your Own/Don’t Think Twice Its Alright/The Leaving Of Liverpool/This Land Is Your Land/Two Summers/The Times They Are A Changin’/Just A Closer Walk With Thee/Don’t Tell Me My Mind/Allentown Jail/Four Strong Winds/You Can Tell The World/Whistling Rufus

After moving to London, clean cut Australian group The Seekers enjoyed considerable success in the mid 1960s with their bouncy folk-pop singles. Their LP A World Of Our Own contained mostly purely folk material. The title track hit single peaked at No. 3 in the UK and No. 19 in the States. (UK:5)

"The Seekers second LP was built around their hit A World Of Our Own, written by Tom Springfield. The title track is an acceptable pop-folk song, but the rest is rather ho-hum fare in the style of Peter, Paul & Mary with a slightly more prominent beat. Bruce Woodley sneaks in with a couple of compositions, but most of this is traditional folk with far less pop flair than Tom Springfield's songs, creating the sense of a group whose sound was still more suited to 1963 than 1965, on album at least."

"The distinctive sound of The Seekers, with their tautly harmonised vocals and catchy folk arrangements, could only be the product of one decade: the 60s. The blurring of moral codes and the increased levelling-out of gender roles at this time created an atmosphere of hedonistic excitement, leading to the decade's 'swinging' nickname, yet there remained, in some quarters at least, a certain naivety, a wide-eyed, innocent, peace-loving hope, absent from much of the music of later decades. It is this aspect of 60s music that characterises the output of The Seekers."

"Judith has a wonderfully clear, strong voice, backed up by the harmonies, done in their own style."

"I was lucky enough to see them live, in the sixties, just before they split, and they were one of the few groups that could sing live, every bit as good, or even better than on record."

"Durham's stunning vocals and the sheer fun and imagination on these recordings shines through."

"The Seekers never went for gimmicks, they just made good music that has survived."