Friday, May 16, 2014

#61 The Carnival Is Over -- The Seekers (1965)



Like “Substitute”, I heard this one for the first time on WKBO’s Sunday night British Invasion show – not surprising, since it hit #1 in the UK but missed the Top 100 entirely over here. It’s a slow, stately ballad, unlike such Seekers hits as “I’ll Never Find Another You” and “Georgy Girl”, but hauntingly beautiful. There’s a great blog post in The Guardian talking about the impact of the song in the group’s native Australia.

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