From there he travelled to Sedbergh in Westmorland, where he had heard a group of Seekers were meeting, and preached to over a thousand people on Firbank Fell, convincing many, including Francis Howgill, to accept that Christ might speak to people directly.

The Seekers were offered a twelve-month position as on-board entertainment on the Sitmar cruise liner, Fairsky, in March 1964.

The Seekers were the first Australian pop group to have a top 5 hit in all three countries – Australia, UK and US.

The Seekers were accompanied during their 20-minute set by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hector Crawford.

In 1969, Potger formed and managed another group, the New Seekers in the UK, which were more pop-oriented.

On 1 September 2006, The Seekers were presented with the Key to the City by Melbourne's Lord Mayor, John So.

The following recordings by the Seekers were each certified as having sold over one million copies: " I'll Never Find Another You ", " A World of Our Own ", " The Carnival is Over " and " Georgy Girl ".

( However, Quidditch Through The Ages describes an instance in which the team captains agreed to end the game without the capture of the Snitch, as the game had gone on for several months, and the captains were unhappy with their respective Seekers ' performances.

Many Australian bands and singers tried to enhance their careers by moving overseas, in particular to England, then seen as the mecca of popular music but few bands were successful and of those who relocated to the UK only The Seekers and The Bee Gees ( who were actually born and raised in the UK ) enjoyed any lasting success.

Excludables included troublemakers in the regular camps where Cuban Asylum Seekers ( CAS ) were being processed to emigrate to the United States.

No Way Sis were a cover band from Glasgow who had a top 40 hit in the UK with " I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing " a cover of the New Seekers song sung in the manner of Oasis.

The Seekers, or Legatine-Arians as they were sometimes known, were a Protestant dissenting group that emerged around the 1620s, probably inspired by the preaching of three brothers – Walter, Thomas, and Bartholomew Legate.

Seekers after the Legatts were Puritan, although not Calvinist.

The Seekers were not an organised religious group in any way that would be recognised today ( i. e. not like a religious Cult or Denomination ).

That said, there were a number of beliefs and practices that made the Seekers distinctive from the large number of nonconformist dissenting groups that emerged around the time of the Commonwealth of England.

With allegations that the members were receiving little financial reward for their success, The New Seekers officially disbanded in May 1974.

In addition, Mick Flynn and Donna Jones of the current New Seekers line-up ( 2009 ) were also in the contest, placing fourth under the group name Pussyfoot.

Melanie has been awarded two gold albums ( and a gold single for " Brand New Key ") and three of her compositions were hits for The New Seekers.

The Hideout teen clubs in the Detroit suburbs in the mid-1960s were a hotbed for such influential groups as the Fugitives, The Pleasure Seekers / Cradle, and the Underdogs.

Achievers in the artistic realm were also well represented, including opera singer Joan Sutherland, renowned dancer and choreographer Robert Helpmann and the chart-topping singing group The Seekers.

This song was never intended as an entry, former Eurovision entrants The New Seekers were due to enter with their song " Tell me ".

Co-incidentally, rival performers Mick Flynn ( of Pussyfoot ) and Danny Finn ( of Prima Donna ) were both former members of The New Seekers.

The Seekers are an Australian folk-influenced pop music group which was originally formed in 1962.

The New Seekers are a British-based pop group, formed in 1969 by Keith Potger after the break-up of his group, the Seekers.

The group was formed after the disbanding of the successful 1960s Australian group the Seekers.

Before the band was formed, Gira intended to call his post-Swans acoustic / song-based project The Pleasure Seekers.

In OVW, Cappotelli formed a fan favorite tag team known as The Thrill Seekers with Johnny Jeter.

The Seekers were not a distinct religion or sect, but instead formed a religious society.

During the English Civil Wars, George Fox pulled together groups of disparate Seekers that formed the Religious Society of Friends following 1647.

* All Seekers of Truth, a religious organization formed by Christopher Douglas Stoudt

During the final years of the Press's existence, its remit was extended to include editions of classic children's books, such as E. Nesbit's The Treasure Seekers and Andrew Lang's fairy tales ( these formed part of the Press's Cygnet impression ).

The Escorts had Ken Ray as the lead singer and in 1962 they became the Seekers.

The Seekers performed folk-influenced pop music and soon gathered a strong following in Melbourne.

In March 1967, the Seekers returned to Australia for a homecoming tour, which included a performance at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, attended by an estimated audience of 200, 000.

Woodley's and Dobe Newton's song " I Am Australian ", which was recorded by the Seekers, and by Durham with Russell Hitchcock and Mandawuy Yunupingu, has become an unofficial Australian anthem.

Their final performance, on 7 July, was screened live by the BBC as a special called Farewell the Seekers, with an audience of more than 10 million viewers.

The special had been preceded by a week-long season at London's Talk of the Town nightclub and a live recording of one of their shows was released as a live LP record, The Seekers Say Goodbye Live from the Talk of the Town.

Seekers, who sometimes fly close to the pitch surface, can be tricked into crashing into the surface occasionally at great speed ( when tricked into doing so by the opposing seeker, it is known as the Wronski feint ).

The length of a Quidditch game is variable, as play can only end with the capture of the Golden Snitch by one of the Seekers or by mutual consent of the two team captains.

The game length is therefore determined largely by the Seekers ' abilities.

It spent seven weeks at the top of the UK charts ( including the entire competitive Christmas season ), until it was replaced by The Seekers ' Best of the Seekers on 25 January 1969, dropping to number 2.

It was so popular it was re-recorded by The New Seekers and by The Hillside Singers as a full-length song, dropping references to Coca-Cola, and became a hit record.

" I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing ( in Perfect Harmony )" by The New Seekers reached # 1 in the UK and # 7 in the United States.

The song ( performed by the Seekers ) reached number 2 in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart the following year, and sold over seven million records.

* Seekers of the Truth: The Complete Piano Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann, Volume One, by Cecil Lytle, Celestial Harmonies, 1992

It featured a cover of the Motown classic " Little Darling ( I Need You )", " Echoes Of Love " ( written for, but not recorded by, Al Green by James Mitchell, then of the Memphis Horns, and Earl Randle, both of whom had worked with Green a good bit, to which Simmons added some music and lyrics co-writing the finished version with Mitchell and Randle ; the song was later covered by the Pointer Sisters and ex-New Seekers vocalist Lyn Paul ), and " You Belong To Me " ( co-written by McDonald and Carly Simon, who had a hit with her own version of the tune ).