Seekers Complete

Seekers

Genre: music4me > Easy Listening > Easy Listening

Format: 5 CD

Released: Tue 19 Dec 1995

Catalogue Number: 8146392

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Description:
Five CDs on the Seekers may seem like overkill, and the $70 list price may provoke an "in-your-dreams" response even from fans. But this set works -- one listen fully justifies it on musical terms; the cost is only a little higher than comparable five-disc sets, and the unique range of material makes it a bargain. The set is broken up into five volumes, the first (1963-64) covering the group's early history: their original 12-song demo, coupled with parts of their debut Australian album, Introducing the Seekers, and their first album for England's World Record Club. The music is a mix of traditional Australian, English, and American folk songs spiced with American gospel. They do themselves credit, whether they're touching on familiar folk standards ("If I Had a Hammer") or Australian repertory ("Waltzing Matilda," "With My Swag All On My Shoulder"), all displaying a beguiling purity and infectious joy in the singing. The second (1964-65) and third (1966-67) discs cover their album tracks from the group's classic era, from early 1964 up to the end of their last full year of success in 1967. The sources for those 40 songs are impeccable, although this is also the period is covered well by various hits anthologies. The fourth, "Hits, B-sides, and the '90's," pushes the group's hit singles, starting with "I'll Never Find Another You" and ending with "Days of My Life," onto a separate disc. The eight 1990s tracks, cut in the studio and in concert on the Seekers' reunion tour, show the group still singing strongly, if not quite as agile, covering "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "Devoted to You" amid some good originals and a nostalgic "Waltzing Matilda." Disc Five, "Studio and Concert Rarities," offers live tracks from their return to Australia as stars in 1965, including "You Can Tell The World" and "Blowin' In the Wind." These numbers are rounded out by outtakes ("Hello Mary Lou," etc.) from their Talk of the Town live album, some radio jingles, a handful of previously unissued studio cuts, and two versions of "Georgy Girl" from the movie. Each disc comes with separate notes, which are generally informative and helpful. Oddly, however, there is at least one annoying deletion from previous hits collections, the group's cover of Paul Simon's "I Wish You Could Be Here." The isolated tracks displaying any substandard sound appear on the first and last discs. ~ Bruce Eder, AMG

Track Listing:

Disk 1
1.	With My Swag All On My Shoulder
2.	Children Go Where I Send You
3.	South Australia
4.	Waltzing Matilda (Queensland Version) (Audition Tape)
5.	Little Moses
6.	Wild Rover
7.	Dese Bones G'wine Rise Again
8.	When the Stars Begin to Fall
9.	This Train
10.	All My Trials
11.	The Light from the Lighthouse
12.	Chilly Winds
13.	Kumbaya
14.	Run Come See
15.	The Hammer Song
16.	Katy Kline
17.	Lonesome Traveller
18.	Myra (W&G Version)
19.	The Wreck of the Old '97
20.	Danny Boy
21.	Waltzing Matilda (Queensland Version)
22.	Cotton Fields
23.	Lemon Tree
24.	Gotta Travel On
25.	With My Swag All On My Shoulder
26.	Plaisir d'Amour
Disk 2
1.	Isa Lei
2.	Whiskey in the Air
3.	500 Miles
4.	Gypsy Rover
5.	South Australia
6.	This Little Light of Mine
7.	Mornington Ride (World Record Club Version)
8.	The Water Is Wide
9.	Well Well Well (World Record Club Version)
10.	Lady Mary
11.	We're Moving On (World Record Club Version)
12.	Ox Driving Song
13.	Kumbaya (World Record Club Version)
14.	Blowin' in the Wind
15.	Eriskay Love Lilt
16.	Chilly Winds (World Record Club Version)
17.	What Have They Done to the Rain?
18.	Don't Think Twice It's Alright
19.	The Leaving of Liverpool
20.	This Land Is Your Land
21.	Two Summers
22.	The Times They Are A' Changin'
23.	Just a Closer Walk with Thee
24.	Don't Tell Me My Mind
25.	Allentown Jail
26.	Four Strong Winds
27.	You Can Tell the World
28.	Whistlin' Rufus