TV Pop Diaries
Pop Music on British Television 1955 -
From TV Times "A new series, a new sound, a new group -
Keith Potger's decision to continue with The Seekers' name after their demise probably surprised many, but in the late sixties groups were assembled to order by managers to fulfil what they saw as a gap in the market. The Monkees and Toomorrow were both assembled to cash in on the teen market to greater, or lesser, extent.
Potger relocated to the UK, first to provide jingles for commercial television, but
then deciding to assemble a new group based around fellow Australian Marty Kristian
and Eve Graham, an experienced singer from Scotland. Potger himself sang with the
group for the first few months, making their UK TV debut on Thames' The Frankie Howerd
Show in August 1969. Their debut album (without Potger) was released by Philips in
1969 to no success, so Potger joined for the second one which resulted in an American
hit, a cover version of Melanie's "What Have They've Done To My Song, Ma", once he
had re-
More TV work was not forthcoming, despite acres of shows like The Cliff Richard Show, Cilla, Crackerjack, Discotheque and others offering plenty of opportunities to bands like theirs. So it was something of a surprise that Scottish TV not only gave them their own show, but their own series. The line up for this version of the group was Keith Potger, Eve Graham, Sally Graham, Laurie Heath, Marty Kristian and Chris Barrington.
Produced in colour the show was given a prime-
According to Lyn Paul on her website each show had a theme, for example one show would be children's songs.
The public did not take to the show at all with several complaints seemingly targeted at the band. But despite the complaints, the series was shown on several ITV channels, sold to Canada, Australia and Sweden with interest from other countries as a result of being shown at the international television market in Cannes. By the summer of 1972 The New Seekers were one of the world's most popular groups with another series of their own, Wow, on ABC TV in America.
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27th March 1970 -