“I’ll Never Find Another You” – Single by the Seekers.
B-side: “Open Up Them Pearly Gates”
Released: December 1964
Recorded: November 4, 1964
Studio; Abbey Road Studios, London
Label: EMI Columbia, Capitol
Songwriter: Tom Springfield
Producer: Tom Springfield
Charted No.4 in US, No.1 in UK. No.1 in Australia and No.6 in Canada.
This was written by Tom Springfield, Dusty Springfield’s brother and band mate of the English folk group The Springfields. After The Springfields disbanded, Dusty began a successful career in Pop and Soul music, while Tom began a career as a songwriter. He wrote most of the Seekers’ identifiable material during the ’60s.
This was the biggest-selling single in Britain of 1965. It reached #1 in the Seekers’ native Australia and it became the first song by an Australian group to reach #1 outside of Australia.
The Seekers’ first hit single, recorded at Abbey Road studios in London in the autumn of ’64, reaching #1 in Feb ’65.
The first time this appeared on an album was 1968 when the Seekers released Live at the Talk of the Town.
The song was added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia’s Sounds of Australia registry in 2011.
