Seen In Green – THE SEEKERS****

Love Is Kind Love Is Wine/The Sad Cloud/59th Bridge Street Song/If You Go Away/All I Can Remember/Chase A Rainbow/Angeline Is Always Friday/When The Good Apples Fall/Cloudy/Can’t Make Up My Mind/Rattler/Colours Of My Life

Seen In Green was the Australian pop folk group The Seekers final studio album before their split. It contains the UK No. 11 hit single When Will The Good Apples Fall. (UK:15)

"This was the final studio album produced by The Seekers before their split and it's convincingly the best. Without a single poor track, the group showed what they can do with great material, some of which they wrote themselves. Sadly, the potential of this album was not to be realised in further releases. Some of the songs are very short - but who cares? Just play it again."

"Some writers have called the 1967 Seen In Green The Seekers' Sgt. Pepper. Comparisons may be invidious, but this album is a tremendous accomplishment. From the songs on this album, you really feel that The Seekers were in love with what they did. The weakest number perhaps is Judith Duham's solo on the Jacques Brel/Rod McKuen number If You Go Away, which was covered by so many artists at the time. Her performance is perfectly good, but her youthfulness acts against the experience of the song's persona. Still, this is a wonderful album by a group that was around for too brief a time."

"For the follow-up to Come The Day, The Seekers largely avoided the cover versions that were so much a feature of that album. That said, there are covers here of Feeling Groovy (Simon and Garfunkel) and If You Go Away (an English translation by Rod McKuen of the Jacques Brel song). I realize that there isn't much to choose between any of the songs here. They're all brilliant."

"The Seekers' final album was nothing out of the ordinary, for either the group or pop music in general. The pleasant folk-pop harmonic blend was seasoned by orchestration, including trombone, harpsichord, trumpet, clarinet, flute and celeste. About half of the material was original, but Bruce Woodley penned a couple of interesting collaborations with Paul Simon (Cloudy) and Tom Paxton (Angeline Is Always Friday). One outside contribution was Kenny Young's When Will The Good Apples Fall, which gave the group their last big British hit."