The New Seekers

The New Seekers
The New Seekers, 1972
General information
Genre (s)	pop
founding	1969, 1976
resolution	1974

The New Seekers are a British pop group .

Band history

After the breakup of the band The Seekers, Keith Potger formed the first formation in 1969 with Eve Graham (born April 13, 1943 ), Sally Graham, Laurie Heath, Chris Barrington and Marty Kristian (born May 27, 1947 ) from Leipzig New Seekers. Already in 1970 Sally Graham, Heath and Barrington dropped out due to artistic differences and were replaced by Lyn Paul (* February 16, 1949 ), Peter Doyle (* July 28, 1949 - October 13, 2001 ) and Paul Layton (* August 4, 1947 ) replaced. Eve Graham and Lyn Paul previously sang in a mixed boy-girl band from Manchester called The Nocturnes.

In 1971, the Coca-Cola beverage company created an advertising jingle entitled I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke . The New Seekers rewrote the text. The song climbed to number 1 in the British charts for four weeks on January 8, 1972 under the name I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing . It became one of the most successful promotional songs of the 1970s and was often known only as the "Coke Song".

Before that, their version of Never Ending Song of Love had already achieved number two in the British charts. In 1972 they performed at the Eurovision Song Contest in Edinburgh and took second place with their song Beg, Steal or Borrow . In the charts, the song also rose to number 2. Other top 10 successes in Great Britain were You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me (number 1, 1974) as well as Circles (number 4, 1972) and I Got a Little Sentimental Over You (5th place, 1974). Her greatest successes in Germany were Neverending Song of Love (4th place, 1971) and Beg, Steal or Borrow (5th place, 1972), of which they also published a German version, Oh, I want to beg, I want to steal .

1974 The New Seekers broke up at short notice and the individual members devoted themselves to their solo careers. In 1976 the group reformed with Marty Kristian, Paul Layton and Eve Graham, ex- Wishful Thinking singer Danny Finn and newcomer Kathy-Ann Rae. Until 1978 they celebrated some chart successes in Great Britain. Eve Graham and Danny Finn dropped out in 1978 and got married. After several changes between 1978 and 2002, only Paul Layton from the original line-up is there. The New Seekers still perform at oldie festivals today. In 2009 they celebrated their 40th anniversary with a major tour.

On April 4, 1987, they were part of the group Ferry Aid , which recorded the Beatles hit Let It Be in memory of the 193 victims of the ferry accident from Zeebrugge and thus topped the UK Top 40 for three weeks.

Eve Graham released the solo album Woman of the World in 1980 and the single Highland Cathedral and the album The Mountains Welcome Me Home in 2005 . In 2006 the album Til The Seasons Comes Round Again followed .

Lyn Paul released her solo album Give me Love in 1975, with another former Coca-Cola promotional song, It Oughta Sell a Million . She has enjoyed great success in England since the 1990s as a musical interpreter in the pieces Taboo by Boy George and in Blood Brothers. In 2007 her second solo album, Late Night, was released .

After Peter Doyle's death in 2001, the album Rarities was released, with solo recordings from the 1970s to 1990s.

Cathy Logan (Kathy Ann Rae) died in January 2011 after suffering from cancer for many years, Danny (Kevin) Finn on February 22, 2016 after a short illness.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	CH	UK	US
1971	Beautiful people	-	-	-	US136 (6 weeks) US	First published: May 1971
1972	New Colors	-	-	UK40 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: September 1971
	We'd Like to Teach the World to Sing	-	-	UK2 (25 weeks) UK	US37 (14 weeks) US	First published: March 1972
	Never Ending Song of Love	-	-	UK35 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: July 1972
	Circles	-	-	UK23 (5 weeks) UK	US166 (10 weeks) US	First published: September 1972
1973	Now (EU) / (US)	-	-	UK47 (2 weeks) UK	US190 (4 weeks) US	First published: March 1973
1974	Together	-	-	UK12 silver (9 weeks)UK	-	First published: March 1974

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

• 1970: Keith Potger & the New Seekers (with Keith Potger)
• 1970: New Seekers
• 1972: Come Softly to Me
• 1972: Live at the Royal Albert Hall
• 1973: Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma
• 1974: Farewell album
• 1976: Together Again
• 1978: Anthem: One Day in Every Week
• 1982: Tell Me

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	CH	UK	US
2009	It's Been Too Long: Greatest Hits and More	-	-	UK17 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: July 2009

More compilations

• 1972: I'd Like to Teach the World to Song in Perfect Harmony
• 1972: Beg, Steal or Borrow
• 1973: In Perfect Harmony
• 1973: You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me
• 1973: The Best of the New Seekers
• 1973: The New Seekers
• 1973: 20 Solid Gold hits
• 1979: The Best of the New Seekers
• 1982: The New Seekers
• 1982: motifs
• 1983: The Best Of
• 1987: Greatest Hits
• 1991: The Greatest Hits
• 1993: Perfect Harmony
• 1993: gold
• 1993: Collection
• 1996: The Very Best of the New Seekers
• 1998: Greatest Hits
• 2005: The Singles
• 2006: Songbook 1970–74 (2 CDs)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	CH	UK	US
1970	Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma Keith Potger & the New Seekers	-	-	UK44 (2 weeks) UK	US14 (12 weeks) US	First release: June 1970 feat. Eve Graham
1971	Beautiful People Beautiful People	-	-	-	US67 (7 weeks) US	First published: December 1970
	Nickel Song We'd Like to Teach the World to Sing	-	-	-	US81 (5 weeks) US	First published: March 1971
	Never Ending Song of Love Beautiful People	DE4 (23 weeks) DE	CH4 (15 weeks) CH	UK2 (19 weeks) UK	-	First published: May 1971
	I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) We'd Like to Teach the World to Sing	DE24 (8 weeks) DE	-	UK1 (21 weeks) UK	US7th gold (11 weeks)US	First published: November 1971
1972	Beg, Steal or Borrow We'd Like to Teach the World to Sing	DE5 (17 weeks) DE	CH5 (9 weeks) CH	UK2 (13 weeks) UK	US81 (4 weeks) US	First published: February 1972
	Circles Circles	-	-	UK4 (16 weeks) UK	US87 (5 weeks) US	First published: May 1972
	Dance, dance, dance circles	-	-	-	US84 (5 weeks) US	First published: August 1972
	Come Softly to Me Come Softly to Me	-	-	UK20 (11 weeks) UK	US95 (3 weeks) US	First release: November 1972 feat. Marty Kristian
1973	Pinball Wizard / See Me Feel Me (Medley) Now / Pinball Wizards	-	-	UK16 (8 weeks) UK	US29 (13 weeks) US	First published: February 1973
	Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You) The New Seekers	-	-	UK34 (5 weeks) UK	-	First release: March 1973 feat. Eve Graham
	Goodbye Is Just Another Word The New Seekers	-	-	UK36 (5 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 1973
	You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me Together	-	-	UK1 gold (16 weeks)UK	-	First published: November 1973
1974	I Get a Little Sentimental Over You Together	-	-	UK5 silver (9 weeks)UK	-	First published: February 1974
1976	It's so Nice Together Again	-	-	UK44 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 1976
1977	I want to go back together again	-	-	UK25 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: November 1976
1978	Anthem Anthem - One Day in Every Week	-	-	UK21 (10 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 1978

More singles

• 1969: Meet My Lord
• 1970: When There's No Love Left
• 1971: Tonight
• 1971: Good Old Fashioned Music
• 1972: Oh, I want to beg, I want to steal (Beg, Steal or Borrow)
• 1973: We've Got to Do It Now
• 1974: Sing Hallelujah
• 1977: Give Me Love Your Way
• 1978: Flashback
• 1978: Do You Wanna Make Love
• 1978: You Needed Me
• 1979: Don't Stop the Music
• 1979: Love Is a Song
• 1980: Tell Me
• 1980: California Nights
• 1985: Let the Bells Ring Out Forever

Awards for music sales

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
United States (RIAA)	-	gold1	-	1,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × silver2	gold1	-	810,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	2 × silver2	2 × gold2	-

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1. ↑ "Oh, I want to beg, I want to steal" , entry at austriancharts.at
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT UK US
3. ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .

Web links

Commons : The New Seekers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official New Seekers website from Lyn Paul
• Official website of lead singer Eve Graham
• The New Seekers at Allmusic (English)
• The New Seekers at Discogs (English)
• Official tribute website for lead singer Peter Doyle, who died in 2001 of throat cancer
• Singles discography at 45cat.com
• Discography at rateyourmusic.com