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A World Of Her Own

The Chrys-Do-Lyns break up in 1965 and Lyn Paul goes solo. Lyn, who is just sixteen, is not going to find it easy to break through, joining a number of other young hopefuls such as Suzy Cope, Julie Grant, Susan Holliday and Patsy Ann Noble.

Although Sandie Shaw and Jackie Trent score number 1 hits in 1965 and Cilla Black makes it to number 2 with her version of the Righteous Brothers' classic You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin', other women singers are less successful. Established singers find it hard to keep up with the changing musical trends. Helen Shapiro's chart run had come to an end the previous year, as had Doris Day's. Petula Clark barely makes it into the Top 20. Even comparative newcomers like Lulu and Dusty Springfield only just make it into the Top 10.

Among the groups making their début on the British charts in 1965 are the Seekers. They score number one hit singles with I'll Never Find Another You (Columbia DB 7431) and The Carnival Is Over (Columbia DB 7711). Sandwiched between them is their second hit, A World Of Our Own (Columbia DB 7532), which reaches number 3. Within five years Lyn is to feature in the history of the Seekers and 21 years later she will re-record The Carnival Is Over for a K-Tel compilation of number one hits.

The Seekers
Photo used with kind permission of
Patrick's Judith Durham:
The Seekers website.

  

The emergence of the Seekers is timely, coinciding as it does with the break up of the Springfields. The Springfields - Dusty, her brother Tom and Mike Hurst - had called it a day in October 1963 when Dusty branched out on her own. Tom needed to find an outlet for his talents and when he discovered the Seekers (they had supported Dusty Springfield at a Blackpool charity show in 1964) he could see their potential. Tom Springfield wrote all three of the Seekers' 1965 hit singles and would provide them with two further top ten hits -.Walk With Me (Columbia DB 8000) and Georgy Girl (Columbia DB 8134).

In 1972 Lyn Paul would record a very different version of Georgy Girl with the New Seekers. Featured on their album We'd Like To Teach The World To Sing, the New Seekers interpreted the song as a ballad and interwove it with the Beatles' 1965 hit Ticket To Ride. As Marty Kristian put it when he Introduced the song at the New Seekers' 1972 Royal Albert Hall concert:

"The original Seekers had a great many hits in their time and one that springs to mind is a song called 'Georgy Girl' but we've recently added a few odds and ends to it."

Whilst acknowledging the New Seekers' inheritance from the original Seekers, Lyn and the other members of the group were also keen to bring something "new" to the tradition. Georgy Girl / Ticket To Ride emphasized their determination to distinguish themselves from the folksy sound of the Springfields and the Seekers - at once a tribute to their predecessors but also a clear sign that they were moving on to pastures new.

Incidentally ...

In July the Fortunes have the first of five UK hit singles with You've Got Your Troubles (Decca F12173). The song also marks the chart début of songwriters Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, who will later write I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing for the New Seekers and It Oughta Sell A Million for Lyn Paul.

Lyn's favourite from 1965, however, is a number 1 from earlier in the year - Concrete And Clay by Unit Four Plus Two: Talking about the song in a radio interview in 2009, Lyn said: "I was only sixteen at the time... I was travelling all over the country, doing all these working men's clubs, and it always seemed to be on in the car... when my dad was driving me. I've got very fond memories of that." (Ready Steady Sunday, 3rd May 2009)

On 21st September a young actor by the name of Paul Layton appears on TV in an episode of Danger Man titled You Are Not In Any Trouble, Are You?. Paul later turns his talents from acting to singing and in 1970 becomes a member of the New Seekers, joining the group at the same time as Lyn Paul and Peter Doyle.

Who said that?

Sixteen

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
Raymond Duncan

They care not for what's at the end of the day,
For what is to come, for what might have been.
Life has no ending when you're sweet sixteen.
Willy Russell, 'Blood Brothers'

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty it will be your own soul's doing.
Marie Stopes

Teenagers

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.
Judih Martin (attrib.)

Youth

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
Henry Brooks Adams

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Lord Asquith

... For young people, as we shall see, are like the last banana in the fruit bowl - not all bad.
Inspector Fowler (Rowan Atkinson), 'The Thin Blue Line'

Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.
Mary Quant, 'The Observer', 5th May 1996

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde