Fact #128879
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Short story:
I'll Never Find Another You by The Seekers enters the UK singles chart, where it will peak at No1. The song is written by Tom Springfield of The Springfields.
Full article:
Judith Durham (lead vocals, The Seekers) : We'd started to do slightly more sophisticated material in Australia. We'd begun appearing on the hotel circuit, and even made a record over there. While on the boat over, the boys sent a tape to an agent in Britain. It was such a novelty that an Australian group should turn up in Britain that we ended up on tv the night we arrived. We were regular guests on variety shows. But the real surprise was when the single, which Tom Springfield had written specially for us, went to the top of the charts.
Bruce Woodley (The Seekers) : First of all, we'd decided we would have to have a song we all liked. If we were going to have anything like a hit, we'd have to sing it scores of times, and we'd have to like it an awful lot to do that.
We messed around with some ideas with Tom Springfield, and he finally came up with this number. The time taken from setting out to find the right song to recording it took three-weeks.
I remember Athol (Guy, of The Seekers) tramping round the streets of London trying to get someone interested in our record. That's when our manager, Eddie Jarrett, together with Tom, decided they'd do it themselves. So they licenced the record to EMI, through FXB Productions.
Tom was the single most important influence, and was responsible for that string of successes that no-one would have even contemplated.
Judith Durham : I was a very complex-ridden, worried, self-conscious and tense person. I found my world with The Seekers superficial and single-track. I enjoyed the dinging but I felt like a bird in a cage. I wasn't developing as a person.
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Bruce Woodley (The Seekers) : First of all, we'd decided we would have to have a song we all liked. If we were going to have anything like a hit, we'd have to sing it scores of times, and we'd have to like it an awful lot to do that.
We messed around with some ideas with Tom Springfield, and he finally came up with this number. The time taken from setting out to find the right song to recording it took three-weeks.
I remember Athol (Guy, of The Seekers) tramping round the streets of London trying to get someone interested in our record. That's when our manager, Eddie Jarrett, together with Tom, decided they'd do it themselves. So they licenced the record to EMI, through FXB Productions.
Tom was the single most important influence, and was responsible for that string of successes that no-one would have even contemplated.
Judith Durham : I was a very complex-ridden, worried, self-conscious and tense person. I found my world with The Seekers superficial and single-track. I enjoyed the dinging but I felt like a bird in a cage. I wasn't developing as a person.
(Source : not known)