The Best of The Seekers
1968 greatest hits album by The Seekers
The Best of The Seekers | ||||
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Greatest hits album by The Seekers | ||||
Released | November 1968 | |||
Recorded | 1964–67 | |||
Genre | Folk, pop | |||
Label | EMI | |||
The Seekers chronology | ||||
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The Best of The Seekers was released in UK by EMI's Columbia label (Catalogue No. SCX 6268) in 1968 on the break-up of The Seekers.
The album spent 117 weeks on the UK album chart (at the time a Top 50 listing), including six weeks at No.1 accumulated over five separate stints in the top spot in 1969, starting with the week of 25 January 1969.[1]
It was the 17th biggest selling album in the 1960s in the UK.
Track listing
Side One
- "I'll Never Find Another You" (Tom Springfield)
- "A World of Our Own" (Springfield)
- "The Carnival Is Over" (Russian folk song - lyrics by Springfield)
- "Someday One Day" (Simon)
- "Walk With Me" (Springfield)
- "We Shall Not Be Moved" (Trad-arr The Seekers)
Side Two
- "Morningtown Ride" (Reynolds)
- "When Will the Good Apples Fall" (Young)
- "Island of Dreams" (Springfield)
- "Open Up Them Pearly Gates" (Trad-arr The Seekers)
- "Emerald City" (Kim Fowley, Keith Potger)
- "Georgy Girl" (Springfield, Jim Dale)
Chart positions
Chart (1969) | Peak position |
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UK Albums Chart[2] | 1 |
See also
- List of UK Albums Chart number ones of the 1960s
- List of best-selling albums of the 1960s in the United Kingdom
References
- ^ Guinness World Records British Hit Singles & Albums (Edition 17). London, U.K.: Guinness World Records Ltd. 2004. ISBN 0-85112-199-3.
- ^ "The Official Charts Company - The Seekers - The Best of The Seekers". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
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- Athol Guy
- Keith Potger
- Bruce Woodley
- Judith Durham
- Buddy England
- Julie Anthony
- Karen Knowles
- Introducing the Seekers (1963)
- The Seekers (aka Roving with the Seekers) (1964)
- Hide & Seekers (aka The Four and Only Seekers) (1964)
- A World of Our Own (aka The Seekers) (1965)
- Come the Day (aka Georgy Girl) (1966)
- Seekers Seen in Green (1967)
- The Seekers (1975)
- Giving and Taking (1976)
- A Little Bit of Country (1980)
- Live On (1989)
- Future Road (1997)
- Morningtown Ride to Christmas (2001)
- Live at the Talk of the Town (1968)
- 25 Year Reunion Celebration (1993)
- 1968 BBC Farewell Spectacular (1999)
- Night of Nights... Live! (2002)
- Farewell (2019)
- The Carnival of Hits Tour 2000 (2019)
- The Seekers Complete (1995)
- Treasure Chest (1997)
- All Bound for Morningtown (2009)
- The Seekers Sing Their Big Hits (1965)
- Introducing the Seekers Big Hits (1967)
- The Seekers' Greatest Hits (1968)
- The Best of The Seekers (1968)
- Capitol Collectors Series (1992)
- The Silver Jubilee Album (1993)
- A Carnival of Hits (1994)
- The Very Best of The Seekers (1998)
- Greatest Hits (2009)
- The Golden Jubilee Album (2012)
- Hidden Treasures – Volume 1 (2020)
- Hidden Treasures – Volume 2 (2020)
- "Waltzing Matilda"
- "I'll Never Find Another You"
- "What Have They Done to the Rain"
- "A World of Our Own"
- "The Carnival Is Over"
- "Someday, One Day"
- "Morningtown Ride"
- "Georgy Girl"
- "When Will the Good Apples Fall"
- "Emerald City"
- "Love Is Kind, Love Is Wine"
- "Sparrow Song"
- The Seekers discography
- List of songs recorded by the Seekers
- The New Seekers
- Georgy Girl (musical)