Love is kind, love is wine
Continuing my trip back through the 1968 album charts.
21/01/68 : Seekers Seen In Green - The Seekers
And another third visit - and I can't say I'm exactly looking forward to this one with any great levels of expectations either. I've just had enough of this year, haven't I? But last time I thought that Traffic came along with a nice surprise, so here's hoping!
Funnily enough, The Seekers don't come up with anything surprising. It's all fine one track at a time, but a whole album is just too twee. Their version of "59th Street Bridge Song" is bearable I guess, but apart from that, there's not a lot here that jumped out at me. I find it quite incongruous that the tracks switch between male and female lead vocalists - and yes, I know I should be able to cope with such things! I also think that album cover is aiming to suck in the psychedelic crowd - I can only imagine how disappointed they must have been when they listened to it!
We're at #25 on the charts this week, on their last week of a ten week run, having peaked at #15 in their third week. The top five were TSOM (this was its 69th and penultimate week at #1 - with its last one being in November this year), Sgt Pepper, Val Doonican, The Four Tops best-of and British Motown Chartbusters, the highest new entry was The Moody Blues (#39) and there were no new women to talk about.
Wikipedia has very little on the album and even less of interest - the only things there worth mentioning are that this was their last studio album with the original line-up and a comment from a critic which pretty much says "yeah, it's nice". It was the 19th best selling album in Australia in this year though - which seems a little bit more than it deserved.
"Customers also listened to" Judith Durham, The New Seekers, Mary Hopkins and The Christy Minstrels - I guess this is a sound you either like or can't be doing with, and I have to say that a full album is just too much for me.
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