New Seekers Meet My Lord / Zarzis
(Netherlands
single cover)
New Seekers What Have They Done
To My Song, Ma /
It's A Beautiful Day
(Norwegian
single cover)
Milkwood Watching You Go /
Here I Stand
(single cover)
New Seekers: Sally Graham
Sally Graham (no relation to Eve) was one of the original members of the New Seekers. She joined the group in 1969 at the age of 22, fresh from the Young Generation Dancers, staying with the New Seekers just long enough to appear on their début album. Sally sang the lead vocal on one album track (the Bob Dylan song Too Much Of Nothing) and shared the lead vocal with Eve Graham on another (Joni Mitchell'sNight In The City)
After quitting the New Seekers, Sally Graham, Chris Barrington and Laurie Heath formed a trio called Milkwood. They released three singles for Warner Brothers. Sally sang the lead vocal on the first two - Watching You Go and I'm A Song (Sing Me). The sleeve notes on Milkwood's first single said this about Sally:
"Sally Graham started her singing career more or less by accident. In 1969, Keith Potger started auditioning for the New Seekers - he needed people who could dance and act as well as sing. A friend of Sally's was working on the rock musical Hair, as was one of the New Seekers. Sally's name cropped up in conversation, Keith heard about her and asked her to audition and she got the job. It was with the New Seekers that Sally met up with her two co-members of Milkwood, Chris Barrington and Laurie Heath."
In 1975 Sally released a solo single under the name Sally Gee - a cover version of Peter Skellern'sToo Much, I'm In Love. Skellern's version of the song had been released as the B-side of his 1975 hit Hold On To Love (Decca 13568) and was subsequently released as an A-side in 1980 (Mercury MER 54).
Sally Graham
pictured on the cover of the New Seekers' début album.
Discography
Milkwood
Singles
Watching You Go (Don Hunter) /
Here I Stand (Paul Kendrick)
(Warner Brothers K16141) 21st January 1972
I'm A Song (Sing Me) (Neil Sedaka / Howard Greenfield) /
Patterson's Brewery (Laurie Heath)
(Warner Brothers K16283) 29th June 1973
"A sensitive but pointed treatment of the Neil Sedaka song, and sort of arrangement that is both simple and complementary. The chorus is really strong." (Record Mirror, 30th June 1973, page 14)
What Can I Do To Make You Love Me (Greenfield / Dante) /
Now And Then (Kerr / Osbourne)
(Warner Brothers K16418) 28th June 1974
Sally Gee
Single
Too Much, I'm In Love (Peter Skellern) /
You're So Hard To Understand (D. Lee)
(Anchor ANC 1019) 13th Jun 1975
