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===Specific=== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="McF">{{cite web|last=McFarlane|first=Ian|authorlink=Ian McFarlane|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040604095357/http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=360|archivedate=4 June 2004|url=http://www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=360|accessdate=23 September 2011|website=[[Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop]]|title=Encyclopedia entry for 'The Seekers'|date=1999}}</ref> <ref name="ARDb">{{cite web | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110606081828/http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/s/seekers.html | url = http://hem.passagen.se/honga/database/s/seekers.html | title = The Seekers | publisher = [[Australian Rock Database]]. Passagen.se (Magnus Holmgren) | last1 = Holmgren | first1 = Magnus | archive-date=6 June 2011| url-status = usurped | access-date = 11 February 2014 }}</ref> <ref name="Elder">{{cite web | url = {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p5389/biography|pure_url=yes}} | title = The Seekers: Biography | access-date = 23 September 2011 | last = Elder | first = Bruce | publisher = [[AllMusic]]. [[Rovi Corporation]] }}</ref> <ref name="Miles">{{cite web | url = http://www.milesago.com/Artists/seekers.htm | title = The Seekers | work = Milesago: Australasian Music and Popular Culture 1964β1975 | last1 = Kimball | first1 = Duncan | publisher = Ice Productions | year = 2002 | access-date = 24 September 2011 }}</ref> <ref name="Yarrow">{{cite web | url = http://www.babyboomercentral.com.au/icons_seekers.htm | title = Icons: The Seekers | work = Baby Boomer Central: The Life and Times of Australia's Baby Boomer Generation | publisher = Australia on CD (Stephen Yarrow) | year = 2010 | access-date = 25 September 2011 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120331224212/https://www.babyboomercentral.com.au/icons_seekers.htm | archive-date = 31 March 2012}}</ref> <ref name="Introducing">{{cite web | url = http://www.telinco.com/seekers/INTRODUCING.htm | title = (Introducing) The Seekers | work = Seekers Discography | publisher = Telinco.com (Richard Saunders) | access-date = 25 September 2011 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110920051210/https://www.telinco.com/seekers/INTRODUCING.htm | archive-date = 20 September 2011}}</ref> <ref name="APRAMyra">{{cite web | publisher = [[Australasian Performing Right Association]]| title = Myra | work = APRA Works Search | url = http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=Myra | access-date = 25 September 2011 }}</ref> <ref name="Roving">{{cite web | url = http://www.telinco.com/seekers/THE_SEEKERS.htm | title = Roving with The Seekers | work = Seekers Discography | publisher = Telinco.com (Richard Saunders) | access-date = 25 September 2011 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110929132734/https://www.telinco.com/seekers/THE_SEEKERS.htm | archive-date = 29 September 2011}}</ref> <ref name="Kentpre1970">{{cite book | url = http://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=30148&pages=3 | title = Australian Chart Book 1940β1969 | last1 = Kent | first1 = David | author1-link = David Kent (historian) | isbn = 0-646-44439-5 | year = 2005 | publisher = [[Kent Music Report|Australian Chart Book Pty Ltd]] | location = [[Turramurra]] }} Note: Chart positions back calculated by Kent in 2005. Published on-line by Hung Medien with information supplied by staff writer Gavin Ryan (aka Bulion).</ref> <ref name="UKSinglesChart">{{cite web | url = http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/seekers/ | title = Seekers β Top 75 Releases Official UK Singles Archive | access-date = 9 September 2011 | work = [[UK Singles Chart]] | publisher = [[The Official Charts Company]] }}</ref> <ref name="BillboardS">{{cite magazine | url = {{BillboardURLbyName|artist=the seekers|chart=all}} | title = The Seekers Album & Song Chart History | magazine = [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | publisher = [[Prometheus Global Media]] | access-date = 25 September 2011 }}</ref> <ref name="AMGBillS">{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p5389/charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}} | title=The Seekers β Charts & Awards β ''Billboard'' Singles | publisher = [[AllMusic]]. [[Rovi Corporation]] |access-date=25 September 2011 }}</ref> <ref name="Simons">{{cite book | last = Simons | first = David | title = Studio Stories - How the Great New York Records Were Made | location = San Francisco | publisher = Backbeat Books | year = 2004 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=uEmmAK1qjbYC | pages = 94β97 | isbn = 978-0-87930-817-9 }}</ref> <ref name="AMGBillSCyrkle">{{cite web |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p4010/charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}} | title=The Cyrkle β Charts & Awards β ''Billboard'' Singles | publisher = Allmusic. Rovi Corporation |access-date=25 September 2011 }}</ref> <ref name="RIAACert">{{Cite certification | region=United States | artist=Seekers, The | title = Georgy Girl | access-date = 25 September 2011 }}</ref> <ref name="SeekersDVD">''The Seekers at Home and Down Under'' β VHS and DVD releases</ref> <ref name="NME1000">{{cite news | url = http://www.skidmore.edu/~gthompso/britrock/NME/nme6603.html | title = Spring Concert Tour of Britain for The Seekers | work = [[NME]] | publisher = [[IPC Media]] ([[Time Inc.]]) | date = 11 March 1966 | issue = 1000 | access-date = 26 September 2011 }}</ref> <ref name="Cashbox">{{cite web|url=http://www.cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/1967.html |title=Top Singles β 1967 |work=[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cashbox]] |publisher=George Albert |access-date=27 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002051927/http://www.cashboxmagazine.com/archives/60s_files/1967.html |archive-date=2 October 2011 }}</ref> <ref name="LongWay">{{cite web | url = http://www.abc.net.au/longway/artist_index/seekers.htm | title = Artist: Judith Durham β Band: The Seekers | work = [[Long Way to the Top]] | publisher = [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]| access-date = 26 September 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110925072307/http://www.abc.net.au/longway/artist_index/seekers.htm | archive-date = 25 September 2011 | url-status = dead}}</ref> <ref name="Oscar">{{cite web | url = http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1967 | title = 39th Academy Awards Winners | work = Oscar Legacy | publisher = [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] | access-date = 26 September 2011 }}</ref> <ref name="WhosWhoMuse">{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=vfBLAAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+Seekers%22 | title = International Who's Who in Popular Music | edition = 9th | year = 2007 | publisher = [[Routledge]] | location = London | page = 150 | isbn = 978-1-85743-417-0 }}</ref> <ref name="Guinness">{{cite book | title = Guinness Book of World Records | last1 = McWhirter | first1 = Norris | author1-link = Norris McWhirter | last2 = McWhirter | first2 = Ross | author-link2 = Ross McWhirter | publisher = [[Sterling Publishing]]| location = New York | year = 1968 | page = 155 }}</ref> <ref name="Nim">{{cite web | archive-url = https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20120726191200/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/14231/20120727-0512/www.howlspace.com.au/en4/seekers/seekers.htm | url = http://www.howlspace.com.au/en4/seekers/seekers.htm | title = The Seekers | last = Nimmervoll | first = Ed | publisher = Howlspace: The Living History of Our Music (Ed Nimmervoll). White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd | archive-date = 26 July 2012 | access-date = 11 February 2014 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> <ref name="CreswellFabinyi">{{cite book | title = The Real Thing: Adventures in Australian Rock & Roll, 1957 to Now | last1 = Creswell | first1 = Toby | author1-link = Toby Creswell | last2 = Fabinyi | first2 = Martin | author-link2 = Martin Fabinyi | publisher = [[Random House|Random House Australia]] | location = [[Milsons Point]] | date = 1 March 2006 | isbn = 978-0-09-183548-4 }}</ref> <ref name="OzDay">{{cite web|url=https://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/recipients/the%20seekers:-athol%20guy,%20judith%20durham,%20keith%20potger,%20and%20bruce%20woodley/67/|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20210323001310/https://australianoftheyear.org.au/recipients/the%20seekers:-athol%20guy,%20judith%20durham,%20keith%20potger,%20and%20bruce%20woodley/67/|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 March 2021|title=The Seekers: Athol Guy, Judith Durham, Keith Potger, and Bruce Woodley β Australian of the Year|website=Australianoftheyear.org.au|access-date=9 February 2022}} Note: Photo of the group with then-Prime Minister supplied.</ref> <ref name="Lewis">{{cite book | author1-link= Wendy Lewis | last1 = Lewis | first1 = Wendy | title = Australians of the Year: 1960β2010 : Celebrating 50 Years of Remarkable Achievement | publisher = [[Murdoch Books|Pier 9 Press]] | location = [[Millers Point]] | year = 2010 | isbn = 978-1-74196-809-5 }}</ref> <ref name="ABCTVDoco">{{Cite book | publisher = [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] | date = 22 November 2002 | url = http://www.abc.net.au/longway/ | title = ABC Online - Long Way to the Top | chapter = Episode 2: Ten Pound Rocker 1963β1968 | chapter-url = http://www.abc.net.au/longway/episode_2/ | access-date = 26 September 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100407224355/http://www.abc.net.au/longway/discography/episode2.htm | archive-date = 7 April 2010 | url-status = dead}} Note: The episode quotes Bruce Woodley and Judith Durham.</ref> <ref name="Cockington">{{Cite book | title = Long Way to the Top: Stories of Australian Rock & Roll | last1 = Cockington | first1 = James | year = 2001 | chapter = The Mod Squad | isbn = 978-0-7333-0750-8 | location = [[Sydney]] | publisher = [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]| pages = 120β121 }}</ref> <ref name="Dale">{{cite news | url = http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/30/1080544476965.html | title = Australia's most-watched TV shows this century | last1 = Dale | first1 = David | work = [[Sydney Morning Herald]] | publisher = [[Fairfax Media]] | date = 3 February 2005 | access-date = 26 September 2011 }}</ref> <ref name="Kent">{{Cite book | title = Australian Chart Book 1970β1992 | last1 = Kent | first1 = David | publisher = Australian Chart Book Ltd | location = [[St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives]] | year = 1993 | isbn = 0-646-11917-6 }} Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until [[Australian Recording Industry Association]] (ARIA) created their own [[ARIA Charts|charts]] in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970β1974.</ref> <ref name="WorldXpo">{{cite web | url = http://www.queenslandfirsts.org/01_cms/details.asp?ID=51 | title = 1988 β Queensland Expo-sed | work = Queensland Firsts | publisher =[[Queensland State Archives]]| access-date = 27 September 2011 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120218092842/http://www.queenslandfirsts.org/01_cms/details.asp?ID=51 | archive-date = 18 February 2012}}</ref> <ref name="AusCharts">{{cite web | url = http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=The+Seekers | title = Discography The Seekers | publisher = Hung Medien | work = Australian Charts Portal | access-date = 27 September 2011 }}</ref> <ref name="LWttTE2">{{Cite book | publisher = Australian Broadcasting Corporation | date = 22 November 2002 | url = http://www.abc.net.au/longway/ | title = ABC Online - Long Way to the Top | chapter = Discography: Episode 2 | chapter-url = http://www.abc.net.au/longway/discography/episode2.htm | access-date = 26 September 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100407224355/http://www.abc.net.au/longway/discography/episode2.htm | archive-date = 7 April 2010 | url-status = dead}}</ref> <ref name="ARIA1995">{{cite web|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=1995 |title=ARIA Awards β History: Winners by Year 1995: 9th Annual ARIA Awards |publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association]] (ARIA) |access-date=27 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519015323/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=1995 |archive-date=19 May 2011 }}</ref> <ref name="TallP1995">{{cite web | url = http://alldownunder.com/oz-p/aria/1995-aria.htm | title = Australia 1995 ARIA Awards | publisher = ALLdownunder.com | access-date = 27 September 2011 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111004125707/http://alldownunder.com/oz-p/aria/1995-aria.htm | archive-date = 4 October 2011}}</ref> <ref name="AusPost1">{{cite web | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081215070843/http://www.auspost.com.au/BCP/0,1080,CH2837%257EMO19,00.html | url = http://www.auspost.com.au/BCP/0,1080,CH2837%257EMO19,00.html | title = How to Fit Four Giants on to a Postage Stamp Sheetβ¦ | last = Highland | first = Gary | work = [[Australia Post]] | archive-date = 15 December 2008 | access-date = 27 September 2011 }}</ref> <ref name="AusPost2">{{cite web | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081215070911/http://www.auspost.com.au/philatelic/stamps/index.asp?link_id=1.645 | url =http://www.auspost.com.au/philatelic/stamps/index.asp?link_id=1.645 | title = The Seekers | work = Australia Post| date = 8 October 2002 | archive-date = 15 December 2008 | access-date = 27 September 2011 }}</ref> <ref name="SBS">{{cite web | url = http://www.sbs.com.au/shop/product/category/DVDs/2142/RockWiz-Salutes-the-Bowl | title = ''RocKwiz Salutes the Bowl'' | work = [[RocKwiz]] | publisher = [[Special Broadcasting Service]] | date = 21 August 2009 | access-date = 27 September 2011 }}</ref> <ref name="ODonnell">{{cite book | title = [[100 Best Australian Albums]] | last1 = O'Donnell | first1 = John | author1-link = John O'Donnell (music journalist) | last2 = Creswell | first2=Toby | author-link2 = Toby Creswell | last3 = Mathieson | first3 = Craig | author-link3 = Craig Mathieson | publisher = Hardie Grant Books | date = October 2010 | location = [[Prahran]] | isbn = 978-1-74066-955-9 | pages = 148β149 }}</ref> <ref name="MSNToday">{{cite web | url = http://today.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=1073573 | title = The Seekers β Celebration of Music Tour 2010 | work = [[Today (1982 TV program)|Today]] | publisher = [[Nine Network]] ([[Nine Entertainment]]) | date = October 2010 | access-date = 27 September 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100628201850/http://today.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=1073573 | archive-date = 28 June 2010 | url-status = dead}}</ref> <ref name="Plant">{{cite news | url = http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/music/how-andre-rieu-sought-out-the-seekers-for-his-latest-tour/story-e6frf9hf-1226053565004 | title = How Andre Rieu sought out the Seekers for his latest tour | last1 = Plant | first1 = Simon | work = [[Herald Sun]] |publisher=[[News Corp Australia|News Corporation]] | date = 11 May 2011 | access-date = 27 September 2011 }}</ref> <ref name="NFSA">{{cite web | title = 2011 Additions β I'll Never Find Another You | work = [[Sounds of Australia]] | publisher = [[National Film & Sound Archive]] | url = http://nfsa.gov.au/collection/sound/sounds-australia/ | access-date = 27 September 2011 }}</ref> <ref name="Murrells">{{Cite book | first1 = Joseph | last1 = Murrells | year = 1978 | title = The Book of Golden Discs | edition = 2nd | publisher = Barrie and Jenkins Ltd | location = London | pages = [https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/196 196, 212] | isbn = 0-214-20512-6 | url = https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/196 }}</ref> <ref name="Clancy">{{cite book | title = Culture and Customs of Australia | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=REN8gTardCUC&q=The+Seekers+Myer+Music+Bowl&pg=PA144 | last1 = Clancy | first1 = Laurie | page = 143 | publisher = [[Greenwood Publishing Group]] | location = [[Westport, Connecticut]] | year = 2004 | isbn = 978-0-313-32169-6 }}</ref> }}
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