Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. With My Swag All on My Shoulder [Audition Tape]
2. Children Go Where I Send You [Audition Tape]
3. South Australia [Audition Tape]
4. Waltzing Matilda (Queensland Version) [Audition Tape]
5. Little Moses
6. Wild Rover [Audition Tape]
7. Dese Bones G'wine Rise Again [Audition Tape]
8. When the Stars Begin to Fall
9. This Train [Audition Tape]
10. All My Trials [Audition Tape]
11. Light from the Lighthouse [Audition Tape]
12. Chilly Winds [Audition Tape]
13. Kumbaya [Audition Tape]
14. Run Come See
15. If I Had a Hammer
16. Katy Kline
17. Lonesome Traveller
18. Myra [W and G Version]
19. 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

Disc 2:

1. Isa Lei
2. Whiskey in a Jar
3. 500 Miles
4. Gypsy Power
5. South Australia
6. This Little Light of Mine
7. Morningtown Ride [World Record Club Version]
8. 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 All Right
19. Leaving of Liverpool
20. This Land Is Your Land
21. Two Summers
22. 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

Disc 3:

1. Yesterday
2. Last Thing on My Mind
3. Red Rubber Ball
4. Well, Well, Well
5. Come the Day
6. All over the World (Dans le Monde en Entier)
7. Island of Dreams
8. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)
9. Lousiana Man
10. California Dreamin'
11. Love Is Kind, Love Is Wine
12. Sad Cloud
13. 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
14. If You Go Away
15. All I Can Remember
16. Chase a Rainbow (Follow Your Dream)
17. Angeline Is Always Friday
18. On the Other Side
19. Cloudy
20. Can't Make Up My Mind
21. Rattler
22. Colours of My Life

Disc 4:

1. I'll Never Find Another You
2. Open up Them Pearly Gates
3. World of Our Own
4. Sinner Man
5. Carnival Is Over
6. We Shall Not Be Moved
7. Someday, One Day
8. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
9. Walk With Me
10. We're Movin' On [EMI Version]
11. Morningtown Ride [EMI Version]
12. When the Stars Begin to Fall [EMI Version]
13. Georgy Girl
14. When Will the Good Apples Fall?
15. Myra [EMI Version]
16. Emerald City
17. Music of the World a Turnin'
18. Days of My Life
19. Study War No More (Down by the Riverside)
20. Keep a Dream in Your Pocket
21. One World Love
22. You're My Spirit [Live]
23. Devoted to You [Live]
24. Time and Again [Live]
25. I Am Australian [Live]
26. Puff (The Magic Dragon) [Live]
27. Waltzing Matilda

Disc 5:

1. You Can Tell the World [Live]
2. Blowin' in the Wind [Live]
3. Kumbaya [Live]
4. This Little Light of Mine [Live]
5. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right [Live]
6. Stan Rofe-Gold Record Presentation [Live]
7. Cotton Fields [Live]
8. 3AK Jingle
9. 3AK Jingle
10. 3AK Jingle
11. Blown the Man Down
12. South Australia
13. High Barbary
14. Eddystone Light
15. Leave Her Johnny, Leave Her
16. A' Rovin'
17. This Is My Song
18. Hello Mary Lou [Live]
19. Sweet Adeline [Live]
20. Maple Leaf Rag [Live]
21. Olive Tree [Live]
22. Georgy Girl [Film Version A]
23. Georgy Girl [Film Version B]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44144 in Music
• Released on: 1995-12-19
• Number of discs: 5
• Formats: Box set, Import
• Dimensions: 1.07 pounds

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive collection at a reasonable price
Those people who are only interested in their hits will find a single CD that contains them all. If you enjoy their hits enough to want a lot more of their music, this box is the best way of obtaining all the commercially recorded music by the Seekers with Judith Durham from the sixties to the nineties. Since then, they have re-united to record a Christmas album (which I've also reviewed). Judith has also recorded solo, while the Seekers have recorded other music without her. These recordings are outside the scope of this set.

The first three CD's contain all their music from 1963 to 1967 except those tracks that appeared on singles - they are collected together on the fourth CD. It contains the hit singles (including Georgy girl, I'll never find another you, Morningtown ride, A world of our own and Carnival is over), their B-sides and the tracks they recorded when they re-united in the early nineties. The fifth CD contains studio and concert rarities.

The first three CD's contain plenty of covers. Judith is lead singer on most tracks, but the boys are good singers too and occasionally one of them sings lead. On those tracks, Judith can be heard on backup vocals. These covers fall into two main categories - those that demonstrate their musical roots (these dominate the first two CD's and include folk songs of Australia, Ireland and America) and those that are versions of contemporary songs (these are mostly to be found on the third CD, although you will find some on the second CD).

The final CD is interesting. Their cover of This is my song was considered for album release in the sixties. It was rejected - If you go away was used instead - so this is the first time their version has been made publicly available. The soundtrack versions of Georgy girl used to open and close the movie are also included, with all their imperfections. The hit version on CD 4 has different lyrics to either of the versions here. Among the other tracks are radio recordings and songs that they recorded at the Talk of the Town in London for a live album. That album contained a lot of hits, but the tracks included here were songs that they didn't otherwise record.

This is a fascinating collection by one of Australia's earliest pop groups.

Australian Legends
Having outsold many of the major bands in the 1960's, with their superb vocals, close harmonies and their secret weapon - one Miss Judith Durham, the Seekers were on a sure fire road to success.

The early works with a core of folk songs and gospel, lead seamlessly into the very heart of the groups repertoire and then on into the realms of their many big hits penned by Tom Springfield. The development of the group continues into the 'Seen In Green' years when a more modern sound and the groups own works were brought more to the forefront. Bruce Woodley and Judith Durham in particular have subscribed songs and particulalry haunting and evocative melodies. Well done Judith for 'Colours of My Life'!
The discs continue into the 90's with what I have to say must be THE very definitive version of Waltzing Matilda -it really is quite extraordinary, powerful and emotive. The superb rensdition of Bruce Woodley's I am Australian sends a shiver down one's spine.

Fabulous performances all round, though Judith Durham's voice shines like a beacon, not just within the group, but for the 1960's right up to the present day and beyond. Miss Durham is matchless.

Excellent collection, but not quite as claimed
And the reason I say that, is that it is only 'complete' up to the date the group split. The 25 Year re-union concert, and the excellent Album 'Future Road' are both absent - and the latter is really hard/expensive to acquire on CD, for some un-obvious reason.

All the good stuff from the early years is here though, along with some bits which most people don't want, and some tracks from vinyl which really BADLY needed to be cleaned up for scratches and clicks before being reissued on CD.

Still, overall this is well worth 4 stars, it's just not quite as perfect as it could be.