THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

609-The Seekers-Georgy Girl.

1966-Number 3 single.

Best Bit-At 1.08. With sales in excess of 50 million records worldwide, they are Australia’s best ever selling artists before 1980.

The Seekers are an Easy Listening, Pop, and Folk act formed in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1962, they were active until 1968, but members reformed again in 1975, through until 1988, and then again in 1992, to the present day.Their best known line up was Judith Durham (vocals, and piano,) Athol Guy (double bass,) Keith Potger (twelve string guitar, and banjo,) and Bruce Woodley (vocals, guitar, mandolin, and banjo.) The Seekers have released 13 studio Albums to date, between 1963-2019, and had 11 top 40 singles in the UK, including two Number 1’s, the other being ‘The Carnival Is Over,’ in 1965. When the Seekers split for the first time in 1968, Keith Potger moved to the UK, to concentrate on songwriting, and record production. In 1969 he formed ‘The New Seekers,’ who are also still currently active, during the 1970’s they achieved 12 top 40 singles, of which two of those reached Number 1 in the UK.

‘Georgy Girl’ was co-written by Tom Springfield (music,) and Jim Dale (lyrics,) and was used as the title song for the 1966 film of the same name. The song is heard at the start, and ending of the film, with altered lyrics in order to fit in with the movies storyline. Tom Springfield had started his music career as a member of the Folk trio ‘The Springfields with Tim Feild (1934-2016,) and his sister Dusty Springfield (1939-1999,) (see also best songs 882 and 171,) in 1960. After The Springfields split in 1963, Tom became a record producer, and songwriter, he wrote many of The Seekers hits including ‘A World of Our Own,’ and the million seller,’The Carnival Is Over.’

Jim Dale is best known in the UK for his appearances in many of the ‘Carry On’ films, while in America he is best known for narrating all seven of the ‘Harry Potter’ audio books. Dale also became a Pop star at the age of 22, when becoming the first Pop singer to be produced by George Martin (1926-2016,) Dale’s hit singles include ‘Be My Girl,’ which reached Number 2 in 1957.

‘You’re always window shopping, but never stopping to buy, so shed those dowdy feathers and fly, a little bit.’