![]() ![]() They have to hold the notes while you wrap the harmonies. And you've got to have a lead singer that forgets that they're the soloist. You've got to have a really great lead singer to be able to do that. Harmonies are one thing, but to get a really good blend that we got, it's quite unique. You sing through your ears most of the time and then you blend in. The first time we opened our mouths together, we said that's the sound. We blended normally because of the timbre of our voices and we recognized we were really good harmony singers. ![]() As Athol Guy said:Ī lot of groups can sing harmony but a lot of them don't blend. Her crystalline voice is in a league of its own, but all four sang, and their voices blended beautifully, which is what it's really about. And thus boys met girl: Judith Durham of the bell-like vocal tones that once heard are unmistakeable. At the end of that afternoon - December 3rd 1962 - Guy took her along to the trio's gig at the Treble Clef on Toorak Road, and three dozen of their fellow Melburnians heard for the first time a new quartet. Not long after, Judy applied for a job at J Walter Thompson, and was astonished to discover on her first day that also working in the ad agency was the bloke her sister had put her on the phone to, Athol Guy. As it turned out, Beverley's sister Judy was a singer, and at that very moment she chanced to telephone, and Beverley put her on to Athol, who promised he'd come hear her sing. Guy's day job was in advertising, and one day leaving Channel Nine he mentioned to Beverley the receptionist that he thought his little trio might benefit from a lady singer. Three years before young Margaret Forster wrote her novel, on the other side of the world in Melbourne, Victoria, three Australians had formed their own antipodean version of the Kingston Trio - Athol Guy on double-bass, Bruce Woodley on guitar, Keith Potger on 12-string guitar. Miss Forster adapted the novel with the playwright Peter Nichols, and they turned in a taut, tart script on contemporary London life: "God always has another custard pie up his sleeve," as Miss Redgrave remarks at one point. The following year it was turned into an even more successful film with Lynn Redgrave as Georgy and a stellar supporting cast - James Mason, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling, and Lynn's own mother, Rachel Kempson. It was a hit, and Miss Forster used £4,000 of her royalties to buy her mum a bungalow. Georgy Girl (1965) told the story of an awkward galumphing working-class lass in the new London faced with the unsatisfying romantic choice of a dour older man who's her dad's boss or, alternatively, the errant lover of her glamorous and promiscuous flatmate. And without the film we wouldn't have had: And without the book we wouldn't have had the film. But without Miss Forster we wouldn't have had the book. She had a global smash with her second novel, written at the age of 27, and she surely must have accepted at a certain point that that particular lightning would not strike again and that her obituaries would be headlined " Georgy Girl Writer Dies". But his wife was famously uninterested in the celebrity circuit, a nd it was well known among Beeb producers that she said no to 99 out of 100 interview requests. Her husband Hunter Davies has been a Beatles biographer and Punch columnist and whatnot, and a familiar sight on the London media scene, one of those chaps who chose the writing life, one suspects, as much for the social pleasures it affords as for any literary ones. I can't claim to have known her, but I enjoyed a quarter-hour of pleasant conversation with her a gazillion years ago back when she was, if memory serves, either a judge or nominee for some literary prize and I was covering it for the BBC's "Kaleidoscope". I had a grand old time at it.īut, like most of their big songs, it started a long way away from Australia - in this case, with the novelist and biographer Margaret Forster. They had a lot of hits around the world, but, when I was in Victoria eight years ago, this was the one that provided the title for the then new biotuner about them that was enjoying its world premiere at Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne. The Seekers were the biggest pop group ever to come out of the Lucky Country. Judith Durham Climb Ev'ry Mountain ℗ 1971 A&M Records Released on: Producer. ![]() Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Kaleidoscope
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