Judith Durham – 3.7.43 – 5.8.22

The Seekers’ lead singer, Judith Durham has died:

. . . Born in Essendon in Victoria, Durham recorded her first EP at 19 and went on to worldwide fame with The Seekers, selling more than 50 million records.

Durham is believed to have died in hospital on Friday night from an undisclosed illness.

As part of The Seekers, Durham was one of the first Australian artists to achieve international success, with songs like Georgy Girl, I’ll Never Find Another You, A World Of Our Own, Morningtown Ride, I Am Australian and The Carnival Is Over. . . 

 

The Carnival Is Over

Happy birthday Bruce Woodley, 68 today.

This was one of my father’s favourite songs. My brothers and I gave him a  recording of it on a 45* for his birthday.

* For those of you too young to recognise that term: before digital downloads and CDs we had 45s (singles) and LPs (albums).

Singles had an A side and a B or flip side. The A side usually had the hit song but sometimes the song on the flip side became more popular than the A side one.

 We played the records on record players which pre-dated stereos but were more modern than gramaphones.

My family also had a collection of 78s, given to us by an uncle, which were  older and bigger versions of singles.

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the numbers referred to revolutions per minute.