For today’s classic song of the day, let’s travel to the land down under and one of Australia’s most beloved groups, the Seekers. The song is “A World of Our Own” and it was released as a single in May of 1965. It peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on Billboard’s Easy Listening chart. It also hit #2 in their native Australia, #3 in the UK, and #5 in Canada.
“A World of Our Own” was written by Dusty Springfield’s brother, Tom Springfield. Tom also wrote several other big hits for the Seekers, including “I’ll Never Find Another You,” “Georgy Girl,” and “The Carnival is Over.”
This one is a happy-in-love song, the kind of thing that the Seekers did all too well. It’s all there in the lyrics:
Close the doors, light the lights
We’re stayin’ home tonight
Far away from the bustle and the bright city lights
Let them all fade away
Just leave us alone
And we’ll live in a world of our own
We’ll build a world of our own that no one else can share
All our sorrows we’ll leave far behind us there
And I know you will find, there’ll be peace of mind
When we live in a world of our own
The Seekers were a folk-pop quartet from Melbourne that consisted of lead singer Judith Durham, guitarists Keith Potger and Bruce Woodley, and bassist Athol Guy. All the guys also sang harmonies. They first got together in 1962 and stayed together until 1968. They reunited several times after that, including a big Golden Jubilee Tour in 2013.
The three guys (including the literal Guy, Athol) continue to tour together today. Judith Durham, she of the golden voice, passed away of a lung disease in 2022. She was 79 years old.
So here’s today’s daily bonus video of the day, the Seekers in their prime performing “A World of Our Own” live on the June 13, 1965, episode of The Ed Sullivan Show. This is good stuff.
