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Speaker 1: This is jem nation. We jes Judith Durham such sad,

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Speaker 1: sad news, an Australian treasure. She really was part of

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Speaker 1: the Seekers, as we know, and I think we forget

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Speaker 1: how extraordinarily successful the Seekers were. Their first three releases

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Speaker 1: went to the top of the British charts. So this

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Speaker 1: is an previously unknown group from Melbourne who knocked the

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Speaker 1: Beatles off the number one spot in England. With the

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Speaker 1: best of the Seekers in nineteen sixty nine, they had

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Speaker 1: three top twenty singles and two top twenty albums in

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Speaker 1: the US. This was a market that was notoriously hard

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Speaker 1: for Australians to crack. They returned to Australia in sixty

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Speaker 1: seven and they said an Australian record in a performance

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Speaker 1: at the Sydney Meyer Music Bowl in Melbourne. Two hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand people turned up. There was a tenth of Melbourne's population.

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Speaker 2: That's the biggest crowd that they've ever had there as well.

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Speaker 1: That's right. The photos are extraordinary from that day. I

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Speaker 1: remember Morningtown Ride Train. It's Still Blind was the first

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Speaker 1: song I think I ever remember hearing as.

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Speaker 3: A little munchie.

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Speaker 2: You're just sitting there, you know, secrets probably weren't really

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Speaker 2: in my wheelhouse, but much respect to how they paid

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Speaker 2: the way for other acts.

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Speaker 1: Oh not just that. Listen you will as you say,

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Speaker 1: they weren't your wheelhouse. But listen to all these famous songs.

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Speaker 1: I'll never find another year rate.

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Speaker 3: Song, love it inside, Goose toups, don't know, Wow, song

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Speaker 3: after song that gets you in the soul of plexus.

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Speaker 2: And they're nice. They're just nice songs, aren't they?

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Speaker 3: Well rating? Nice songs?

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Speaker 1: And her beautiful voice. Did you know that she appeared

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Speaker 1: on a Silverchair album. English Garden was a bonus track

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Speaker 1: on Silverchair's two thousand and six albums Straight Lines. She's

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Speaker 1: the only guest vocalist Silverchair had ever had. Here it

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Speaker 1: is Keith Fair and.

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Speaker 2: I'll take my phone and take this strange behavior.

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Speaker 3: Only night.

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Speaker 1: That's on a Silver Chair album.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Daniel Johns said that during this is a quote from him,

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Speaker 1: During my entire career in Silverchair, we only had one

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Speaker 1: guest vocalist, and it was Judas More ac DC, before

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Speaker 1: ac DC in Excess, Silverchair Tame in Parlor. There were

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Speaker 1: the seekers and this diminutive woman kicked the door down

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Speaker 1: for all of us. That's Daniel John's talking about you

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Speaker 1: and you would.

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Speaker 2: Never have thought that. Imagine a festival. You go and

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Speaker 2: see Silverchair and the Seekers, they're both on the same bill.

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Speaker 3: Thought, thank you.

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Speaker 1: You have to take your pingers with a cup of tea.

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Speaker 1: Much respect, Judith Darry

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Speaker 2: Much respect indeed,