Live On (The Seekers album)

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Live On
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Studio album by The Seekers
Released 17 April 1989
Recorded 1988/89
Genre Pop, Folk, World
Label Polydor Records
The Seekers chronology
An Hour Of The Seekers
(1988)
Live On
(1989)
Ideal
(1990)

Live On is the tenth studio album from The Seekers. The album is the only Seekers' album to feature the vocals of Australian singer, Julie Anthony.

The Seekers Australian band

The Seekers are an Australian folk-influenced pop quartet, originally formed in Melbourne in 1962. They were the first Australian pop music group to achieve major chart and sales success in the United Kingdom and the United States. They were popular during the 1960s with their best-known configuration as: Judith Durham on vocals, piano, and tambourine; Athol Guy on double bass and vocals; Keith Potger on twelve-string guitar, banjo, and vocals; and Bruce Woodley on guitar, mandolin, banjo, and vocals.

Julie Moncrief Anthony, AM OBE is an Australian soprano and entertainer. She sang the Australian National Anthem at the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics with Human Nature.

Contents

Background

In October 1988, The Seekers re-formed and sang "The Carnival is Over" to close the World Expo 88 in Brisbane. The lead singer of The Seekers, Judith Durham was not available and was replaced by Julie Anthony. Following the performance, the group signed with Polydor Records and re-recorded some of the group's biggest hits with Anthony's vocals, along with several new songs written by group member Bruce Woodley.

World Expo 88

World Expo 88, also known as Expo 88, was a specialised Expo held in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia, during a six-month period between Saturday, 30 April 1988 and Sunday, 30 October 1988, inclusive. The theme of the Expo was "Leisure in the Age of Technology", and the mascot for the Expo was an Australian platypus named Expo Oz.

Brisbane capital city of Queensland, Australia

Brisbane is the capital of and the most populated city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of 2.5 million, and the South East Queensland region, centred on Brisbane, encompasses a population of more than 3.5 million. The Brisbane central business district stands on the historic European settlement and is situated inside a peninsula of the Brisbane River, about 15 kilometres from its mouth at Moreton Bay. The metropolitan area extends in all directions along the floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Great Dividing Range, sprawling across several of Australia's most populous local government areas (LGAs)—most centrally the City of Brisbane, which is by far the most populous LGA in the nation. The demonym of Brisbane is "Brisbanite" or "Brisbanian".

Judith Durham singer and musician

Judith Durham is an Australian singer and musician who became the lead singer of the Australian popular folk music group The Seekers in 1963.

Track listing

CD track listing
  1. Prelude "Live On"
  2. "The Streets of Serenade"
  3. "I'll Never Find Another You"
  4. "Georgy Girl"
  5. "Building Bridges"
  6. "Love Is Me, Love Is You"
  7. "Come the Day"
  8. "The Carnival is Over"
  9. "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back"
  10. "Some Day One Day"
  11. "Taking My Chances With You"
  12. "Morningtown Ride"
  13. "Time and Again"
  14. "Keep A Dream In Your Pocket"
  15. "Here I Am"
  16. "A World of Our Own"
  17. "How Can A Love So Wrong Be So Right"
  18. "Sparrow Song"
  19. "House of Cards"
  20. "Red Rubber Ball"
  21. "When Will the Good Apples Fall"
  22. "Live On"

Charts

Chart (1989)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [1] 26

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References

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