Classic Albums-Come The Day The Seekers

This week's classic album segment is the 1966 album by the legendary Australian folk pop group the Seekers. This album was the group's 2nd album for EMI as well as their 5th altogether who in 1965 had achieved 2 UK number 1 hits with I'll NEver Find ANother You, A World Of Our OWn(no 3) and the Carnival Is Over and had 2 top 40 hits in 1966 with Someday Oneday(no 11 in the Uk and no 15 in Australia) written by Paul Simon and Walk with Me written by Tom Springfield (no 10 in the Uk and no 31 in Australia) which they would have an no 2 UK hit by the end of 1966 with Morningtown Ride. the recordings for the Come the day started in 1966 which they spent the weekends in the studio at Abbey Road during their 5 week British tour and it was released in November 1966 which went to number 3 in the UK. this album would have the hit single Georgy Girl(no 2 in the USA(billboard charts) and no 1 Cashbox charts), no 3 in the Uk and No 1 in Australia as it was in the movie called Georgy Girl that starred Lyn Redgrave, James Mason, Charlotte Rampling and Alan Bates which also Capitol Records in the USA released the album as Georgy Girl and would have other tracks like the title track written by member Bruce Woodley and 2 songs he wrote with US singer-songwriter Paul Simon I Wish You Could be here and Red Rubber Ball which was an hit for the US group the Cyrkle who supported the Beatles on the US 1966 tour, cover versions of Turn Turn Turn (no 1 US hit for US rock group the Byrds), California Dreamin( NO 4 hit in the USA for US group the Mamas and the Papas), Yesterday(the Beatles song), Island of Dreams an hit for the Springfields in the early 60's and others. Tom Springfield who wrote most of the Seekers hits produced the album, Robert Whittaker did the photo cover and Bobby Richards did the musical direction. It's an excellent album with excellent songs and it holds very well in 2012 and it would have one of best albums the Seekers made as well as the unique voice of Judith Durham that holds it together as well as taking their first serious steps away from the confines of folk music. Truly it's an classic album indeed and still in the shops somewhere these days.

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