''Hidden Treasures – Volume 1'' (also known as ''Hidden Treasures: The Rarities Collection Volume 1'') is a

compilation album A compilation album comprises Album#Tracks, tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one Performing arts#Performers, performer or by several performers. If the recordings are from ...

by Australian band

The Seekers The Seekers were an Australian folk music, folk-influenced pop music, pop group 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 Unit ...

. The album was announced in April 2020 as the first of a trilogy of releases featuring lost classics and rarities. ''Hidden Treasures – Volume 1'' was released on 22 May 2020 and contains seven live performances from their 1967 Sidney Myer Music Bowl show, the first time they've been heard since that concert.

Reception

Jeff Jenkins from Stack Magazine called the album "A celebration of pure talent." Jenkins said "The Seekers became the first Aussie band to top the UK and US charts not because of any studio trickery but because they were simply a fine singing group."

Track listing

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Waltzing Matilda "Waltzing Matilda" is a song developed in the Australian style of poetry and folk music called a bush ballad. It has been described as the country's "unofficial national anthem". The title was Australian slang for travelling on foot (waltzing ...

" (Queensland Version) – 2:53 # "3AK Jingle 1" – 0:36 # "3AK Jingle 2" – 0:19 # "3AK Jingle 3" – 0:18 # "Nothing to Do (And All Day to Do It In)" (

Frankie Davidson Francis Joseph Davidson (12 January 1934 − 22 July 2022) was an Australian entertainer who had several hit records in the 1960s, appeared on many TV variety shows, and acted in several Australian television police dramas, including ''Matlock ...

featuring The Seekers) – 2:15 # "Sally Was a Good Old Girl" (

featuring The Seekers) – 2:31 # "

Blow the Man Down "Blow the Man Down" is an English-language sea shanty, listed as 2624 in the Roud Folk Song Index. History Written history Contemporary publications and the memories of individuals, in later publications, put the existence of this shanty by ...

" – 2:35 # " Bound for Australia" (also known as "South Australia") – 1:36 # "High Barbary" – 2:19 # "Eddystone Light" – 1:21 # "Leave Her Johnny, Leave Her" – 2:19 # "A Rovin" – 2:29 # "You Can Tell the World" – 3:24 # "

Blowin' in the Wind "Blowin' in the Wind" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962. It was released as a single and included on his album '' The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'' in 1963. It has been described as a protest song and poses a series of rhetorical questions about ...

" – 2:38 # "

Kumbaya "Kum ba yah" ("Come by here") is an African-American spiritual of disputed origin, known to have been sung in the Gullah culture of the islands off South Carolina and Georgia, with ties to enslaved Central Africans. Originally an appeal to ...

" – 2:31 # "

This Little Light of Mine "This Little Light of Mine" is a Gospel music, gospel song that originated in the 1920s, when it was first sung in Christian churches and penitentiaries. The hymn is often attributed to evangelist Harry Dixon Loes who is said to have written it ...

" – 2:40 # " Dont Think Twice Its Alright" (Includes Gold Record Presentation) – 4:25 # "

Cotton Fields "Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)" (also known as In Them Old Cotton Fields Back Home) is a song written by American blues musician Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, who made the first recording of the song in 1940. Early versions Reco ...

" – 2:04 # "Coca-Cola Jingle 1" – 1:04 # "Coca-Cola Jingle 2" – 1:31 # "Come the Day" – 2:10 # "

Morningtown Ride "Morningtown Ride" is a lullaby, written and performed by American singer Malvina Reynolds. It was covered by the Australian pop group the Seekers and their recording reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart. The song tells the comforting story of ...

" – 2:40 # "

A World of Our Own "A World of Our Own" is a 1965 single written by Tom Springfield and was an international hit for the Australian pop group the Seekers. The single peaked at number 19 on the American Hot 100 and number 2 on the Easy Listening charts. It reache ...

" – 1:59 # "

The Leaving of Liverpool "(The) Leaving of Liverpool" ( Roud 9435), also known as "Fare Thee Well, My Own True Love", is a folk song. Folklorists classify it as a lyrical lament and it was also used as a sea shanty, especially at the capstan. It is very well known in ...

" – 3:02 # "

Red Rubber Ball "Red Rubber Ball" is a pop music, pop song written by Bruce Woodley of The Seekers and Paul Simon of Simon & Garfunkel, sound recording and reproduction, recorded by The Cyrkle, whose version reached 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' ...

" – 2:14 # "

The Carnival is Over "The Carnival Is Over" is a song written by Tom Springfield, for the Australian folk pop group the Seekers. It is based on a Russian traditional music, Russian folk song from about 1883, adapted with original English-language lyrics. The song ...

" – 3:04 # "

Georgy Girl ''Georgy Girl'' is a 1966 British romantic comedy film directed by Silvio Narizzano and starring Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling, James Mason, and Rachel Kempson (Redgrave's mother). The screenplay was written by Margaret Fors ...

" – 2:14 *Note: Tracks 13–18 are from ''The Big Show Tour'' *Note Tracks 21–27 are from ''Music for the People, Sidney Myer Music Bowl in March 1967''

Charts

Release history

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hidden Treasures - Volume 1 2020 greatest hits albums The Seekers compilation albums Universal Records compilation albums Decca Records compilation albums