# The Seekers are Australian?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 16, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-seekers-are-australian/137038 "2002-11-16T16:50:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-seekers-are-australian/137038/1 "2002-11-16T16:50:44Z")
They sure don’t sound Australian… _at all_. Are the members native Australians or English guys + girl who became citizens? [The Seekers Home Page](http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/4567/) They are the Group who had the hits “Georgy Girl, Red Rubber Ball” and “I’ll Never Find Another You”. ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-seekers-are-australian/137038/2 "2002-11-16T18:37:30Z")
As far as I know they were all born in Melbourne. The fact that they didn’t sound particularly Australian (to you) may be explained by the effects discussed in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=143197). [This](http://www.jenskoch.subnet.dk/sfaq.htm) is a FAQ site. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-seekers-are-australian/137038/3 "2002-11-16T23:01:35Z")
Yeah. They’re ours. When I was growing up in the sixties, a Seekers tape was the only music we had on the ‘reel-to-reel’. I learned to hate them with a vengeance, but it was probably undeserved…they are actually accomplished muso’s and even now I know all the words to all the songs…urggh. Every now and again they do a reunion concert, and they are invariably sold-out. AFAIK, Judith Durham is still doing the solo jazz circuit after the death of her husband from MN disease, and Athol Guy became a politician a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-seekers-are-australian/137038/4 "2002-11-17T03:16:03Z")
We are one, Yet we are maaaaaaaany! And from all the lands of Earth we come. We’ll share a dream. And sing with ooooone voice! I am, You are, We are _Austraaaaalian!_ 🙂 Yep, they sound pretty Australian to me. ---
**Author:** ![robinc308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@robinc308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robinc308)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-seekers-are-australian/137038/5 "2002-11-17T06:13:23Z")
And **Narrad** , I can’t hear that song anymore without thinking of that stupid Telstra ad. Still can’t figure out what being Australian has to do with mobile phones, broadband internet or cable TV… ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-seekers-are-australian/137038/6 "2002-11-17T06:21:45Z")
But it puts a whole different spin on things. In listening to “Georgy Girl” I see a mini-skirted, GoGo booted young girl walking down the rain slicked streets of London, and now I see a rough and ready suntanned young Australian girl looking whistfully into the distance as she drives her pickup truck down a gravel road swerving occasionally to dispatch qoccasional Cane toad. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-seekers-are-australian/137038/7 "2002-11-17T06:26:09Z")
oops -editing wasn’t finished But it puts a whole different spin on things. In listening to “Georgy Girl” I see a mini-skirted, GoGo booted young girl walking down the rain slicked streets of London, and now I see a rough and ready suntanned young Australian girl looking whistfully into the distance as she drives her pickup truck down a gravel road swerving occasionally to dispatch a luckless Cane toad. Partial lyrics post > [@](#): > > Hey there, Georgy girl > Swingin’ down the street so fancy-free > Nobody you meet could ever see the loneliness there inside you > Hey there, Georgy girl > Why do all the boys just pass you by? > Could it be you just don’t try or is it the clothes you wear? > > You’re always window shopping but never stopping to buy > So shed those dowdy feathers and fly a little bit > > Hey there, Georgy girl > There’s another Georgy deep inside > Bring out all the love you hide and, oh, what a change there’d be > The world would see a new Georgy girl > > Hey there, Georgy girl > Dreamin’; of the someone you could be > Life is a reality, you can’t always run away > Don’t be so scared of changing and rearranging yourself > It’s time for jumping down from the shelf a little bit ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-seekers-are-australian/137038/8 "2002-11-17T10:58:13Z")
I assumed that one was 'specially written for [the film](http://www.redgrave.com/georgy.htm)? ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2002, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-seekers-are-australian/137038/9 "2002-11-17T11:55:27Z")
You can take 'em as long as you promise that the carnival will _really_ be over.