Thirty-one years after it hit the number 1 spot, I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing is still amongst the UK's Top 100 best-selling singles.
This book, which is well worth the publisher's asking price of just £9.99, features a photo of the New Seekers (page 253), pictured with their fingers crossed as they boarded the train to Edinburgh for the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest. The text which accompanies it (page 252) includes a review of I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing from the New Musical Express.
The author, Martin Roach, makes the connection between the Seekers and the New Seekers but confuses the two in his last sentence. "In the '90s" he writes "the original line-up re-formed for a millennium tour." Sadly for New Seekers' fans, it was in fact the original Seekers who re-formed for a millennium tour.
Number One
In Heaven
Number One In Heaven: The heroes who died for Rock 'n' Roll
Jeremy Simmonds
Jeremy Simmonds' book of rock obituaries arranges the entries chronologically, spanning the forty years from 1965-2005. Peter Doyle's obituary appears on page 456, alongside another for Kim Gardner (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke).
Omnibus Book Of
British and American
Hit Singles,
1960-1990
The Omnibus Book Of British and American Hit Singles 1960-1990
Dave Mcaleer
Publisher: Omnibus Press
ISBN: 1 7119 2180 6 (paperback)
Publication date: 22nd October 1990
The Omnibus Book Of British and American Hit Singles 1960-1990 lists the New Seekers' Top 10 hits in the UK and the USA (page 127). It includes a small photograph of the New Seekers (the line-up featuring Kathy Ann Rae and Danny Finn) and makes passing reference to Lyn Paul's solo career, remarking that "Lyn later recorded on Polydor, Pye and Crash."
1000
UK Number One
Hits
1000 UK Number One Hits
Compiled and written by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh
Publisher: Omnibus
ISBN: 1 84449 283 4 (paperback)
Publication date: January 2005
Among the 1000 chart-toppers featured in this book are the New Seekers' two UK number ones - I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (page 174) and You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me (page 193). Lyn Paul is quoted in both articles.
I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing
"It would have been a boring song if it had been recorded by a solo singer, but all the counter-melodies make it."
You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me
"I just didn't want to be oohing and aahing all the time ... Fortunately, they could see my point of view and they gave me 'You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me' and 'I Get A Little Sentimental Over You' to get me to stay."
Rock And Pop Day By Day: Birthdays, Deaths, Hits and Facts
Frank Laufenberg
Translated by Astrid Mick
Edited by Hugh Gregory
Six decades of hits are chronicled in this giant-sized encyclopedia. Lyn Paul is quoted in the entry for the New Seekers' hit I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing: "I remember thinking I wasn't very keen on it. How wrong can you be?" (page 129). This book was updated and re-issued in 2008 as Classic Tracks Back to Back: Singles and Albums.
Tapestry Of Delights
Tapestry Of Delights: comprehensive guide to British music of the Beat, R&B, Psychedelic and Progressive eras, 1963-76
Vernon Joynson
Tapestry Of Delights is an encyclopaedic guide to British music of the Beat, R&B, Psychedelic and Progressive eras, 1963-76, described by Q magazine as an "impressive 600 page job, that includes more across-the-board info than most rock encyclopaedias". It includes information on Brian Engel's group Mandrake Paddlesteamer.
A revised and updated edition of Tapestry Of Delights, featuring information on the Nocturnes (page 615), Mandrake Paddlesteamer (page 532) and Wishful Thinking (page 938). Many of the entries have been rewritten, more have been added, and all have been updated to include relevant releases since 1995.
