The Carnival is Over
I remember this song from when I was very - VERY - young. I have always loved Judith Durham's voice. I remember her as being impossibly grown-up and impossibly beautiful - and, looking at this video, she's really not either of those: she looks very young to me now. Sighhhhh.
I looked at her website with its somewhat overwritten home page and was pleased to learn that her real name was Judy Cock. No idea why she changed it.
Anyway, I still love her voice, and I still love this song.
I looked at her website with its somewhat overwritten home page and was pleased to learn that her real name was Judy Cock. No idea why she changed it.
Anyway, I still love her voice, and I still love this song.
posted by Daphne at 11:07 pm
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I admit to having their Greatest Hits album (downloaded of course) as they were part of my "middle of the road" musical upbringing.
Folk, showbands and a bastardised version of American C&W were all I had back then and when you realise Val Doonican and Jim Reeves were top of the pops in those days, then The Seekers were almost rock and roll !!
I once read they'd been on tour and the next morning the cleaners found their beds made, the carpet vacuumed and the furniture polished. Eat your heart out, Keith Moon.
Oneof my favourites too, Daphne. Seems such a long time ago now.
It LOOKS such a long time ago, too, Jennyta, from the grainy old film.
Oh, I love your Seekers room-cleaning anecdote, Ian - wonderful! My parents' cutting-edge Modern Music collection consisted ENTIRELY of a Val Doonican LP and Rolf Harris's Sun Arise - everything else was classical, and if I ever tried to play anything that wasn't on our red Dansette Record Player, the Communist would rumble on about "can't hear the words" and "all that modern rubbish" until I couldn't stand it and gave up. So the Seekers would have been most definitely rock and roll in our house!
My mother told me I couldn't play my Led Zepplin record on the Decca Hi-Fidelity Black Box, because it would damage the needle. She regularly played Beethoven's Ninth, I could never work out how that kept the needle undamaged.
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