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Like Abba, the New Seekers were a mainstream seventies pop group featuring two female singers, one of whom was blonde. Also like Abba, they enhanced their reputation as a result of competing in the Eurovision song contest, but that's where the similarities end. While Abba relied almost exclusively on their female singers to provide the vocals, only occasionally featuring one of the men as a lead vocalist, the men in the New Seekers were good singers who got plenty of chances to show it. And while Abba wrote all their own material apart from one medley, the New Seekers were quite happy to record songs from a variety of sources although they also recorded original material including songs written by members of the group.
Keith Potger, originally a member of the Seekers, formed the group but this time he was content to limit himself to being the manager. Eve Graham and Marty Kristian were founder members and remained with the group throughout their hit-making days. Three other founder members (Sally Graham, Chris Barrington and Laurie Hearh) quit before the group had really established themselves although they actually participated in the recording of a few tracks. Lyn Paul, Peter Doyle and Paul Layton replaced them and, with Eve and Marty, became the most familiar line-up. Peter Doyle was the first to quit (in 1973) being replaced by Peter Oliver. The group disbanded in 1974 but re-formed two years later as a foursome without Lyn Paul, who had gone solo, and with Danny Finn replacing Peter Oliver. That line-up recorded two albums that between them included three minor UK hits (I wanna go back, It's so nice to have you home, Anthem one day in every week). This music focuses exclusively on the music recorded up to 1974 but you can find most of their later music on a different compilation,
Flashback: The Best of the New Seekers
, that I've also reviewed. Since then, a comprehensive collection of their later material
Together Again/Anthem
has been released but I haven't heard that.
Here you can find all their classic hits including I'd like to teach the world to sing, Beg steal or borrow (their selected Eurovision entry), Never ending song of love (a Delaney and Bonnie song), Circles (a Harry Chapin song), You won't find another fool like me and I get a little sentimental over you. The group recorded six songs as possible Eurovision entrires and they're all here, the five not selected being One by one, Songs of praise, Out on the edge of beyond, Sing out and Why can't we all get together? The other tracks include covers of Melanie songs (Look what they've done to my song Ma, Nickel song, Beautiful people), the Beatles (Something), Neil Young (Dance dance dance), the Move (Blackberry Way), Bread (Look what you've done), Todd Rundgren (I saw the light), Neil Diamond (Song sung blue), Fleetwoods (Come softly to me), Dusty Springfield (Goin' back), the Who (a meddley of Pinball wizard / See me feel me), Carole King (Beautiful) and the traditional Morning has broken, possibly inspired by the Cat Stevens hit version. The song Evergreen is, of course, not a cover of the Barbra Streisand classic, which came later in the seventies anyway, but a completely different song that you may know by its more familiar title, How I love them old songs. Apart from all those familiar songs, there are some other gems here, my favorite among the obscurities being Jean's little street cafe.
With impeccable harmonies from five talented singers, this double CD shows what a brilliant group the New Seekers really were in their heyday.
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