Close the door, light the lights - we're staying home tonight

Continuing my trip back through the 1965 album charts.

29/08/65 : A World Of Our Own - The Seekers

I thought we'd met The New Seekers but were yet to meet their antecedents - but it turns out I got it the wrong way round and so had completely forgotten about three previous visits! It turns out I didn't hate them, but I didn't see why so many people liked it.

And yeah, that's pretty much where we are here - it's interesting to compare this with Joan's previous offering because they both fall very much under the banner of "60s folk" but this has dated far worse (and is five years younger). It's just all very twee with far too much faffing about going on - one track or two is fine for a sing-along, but I'm afraid a whole album is just too much for me. The cover is amusingly of its time though.

We're at #15 in the charts this week on their tenth week of a fourteen week run, with it having peaked at #5 in its fifth week. All of which feels incredibly generous - so imagine my surprise when I saw it came back in Christmas week to start a 21 week run, peaking again at #5. The top five this week were The Beatles, TSOM, Mary Poppins, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez with no new entries in the chart.

Wikipedia tells us it's their fourth album and in some other countries was called The Seekers - and yes, that's as exciting as things get here. As we've often seen this year, we have a couple of Dylan covers and a Woody Guthrie cover but the critical reception was harsh, man - "more suited for 1963 than 1965". Ouch!

"Customers also listened to" Bob Dylan, Cilla Black, Ken Dodd (who I'm amazed we've avoided so far) and Peter, Paul & Mary - a somewhat peculiar mix. I'm afraid The Seekers, new or original are just not my cup of tea though. 

22/08/65 - Him again!
05/09/65 - A lovely voice