Live at the Royal Albert Hall is a 1972 double-album by British pop group The New Seekers

The New Seekers

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 idea was that the New Seekers would appeal to the same market as the original Seekers, but their music had rock as well as folk influences...

. The album was released in November, having been recorded some months earlier.

No singles were released from the album, although a new (studio) single was released at the same time, "Come Softly To Me". The album failed to chart in the UK, their first album for two years not to do so. The album was released in a gatefold sleeve and included a cardboard 3D model of the group on stage.

In the US, the album was released in 1973 as a single-disc compilation, reducing the number of tracks from 22 to 11. It was re-titled The History of the New Seekers and released on MGM Records

MGM Records

MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946, for the purpose of releasing soundtrack albums of their musical films. Later it became a pop label, lasting into the 1970s...

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Track listing

Side One

1. "There's a Light" (Hans Poulson)
2. "One
   One (Harry Nilsson song)
   "One" is a song written by Harry Nilsson and made famous by Three Dog Night whose cover in 1969 reached number 5 on the Billboard chart. The song is known for its opening line "One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do." It appeared initially on Aerial Ballet, Nilsson's third album.Nilsson...
   
   " (Harry Nilsson
   Harry Nilsson
   Harry Edward Nilsson III was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. On all but his earliest recordings he is credited as Nilsson...
   
   )
3. "Look What They've Done To My Song Ma" (Melanie Safka
   Melanie Safka
   Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk is an American singer-songwriter. Known professionally as simply Melanie, she is best known for her hits "Brand New Key", "Ruby Tuesday" and "Lay Down ".-Early career:...
   
   )
4. (Marty Introduces the New Seekers) "Georgy Girl
   Georgy Girl
   Georgy Girl is a 1966 British film based on a novel by Margaret Forster. The film was directed by Silvio Narizzano and starred Lynn Redgrave as Georgy, Alan Bates, James Mason, Charlotte Rampling and Bill Owen....
   
   " / "Ticket To Ride
   Ticket to Ride
   "Ticket to Ride" is a song by The Beatles from their 1965 album, Help!. It was recorded 15 February 1965 and released two months later. -Composition:...
   
   " (Tom Springfield
   Tom Springfield
   Tom Springfield is the brother of Dusty Springfield and an important figure in the 1960s folk and pop music scene...
   
    / Jim Dale
   Jim Dale
   Jim Dale, MBE is an English actor, voice artist, singer and songwriter. He is best known in the United Kingdom for his many appearances in the Carry On series of films and in the US for narrating the Harry Potter audiobook series, for which he received two Grammy Awards, and the ABC series Pushing...
   
    / Lennon
   John Lennon
   John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
   
    / McCartney
   Paul McCartney
   Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
   
   )
5. "Never Ending Song of Love" (Delaney / Bramlett)

Side Two

1. "Fire and Rain
   Fire and Rain
   "Fire and Rain" is a folk/rock song written and performed by James Taylor. As a song on his second album, Sweet Baby James, the song engendered widespread attention for him. The album was released in February 1970, with the song being released as a single that month. "Fire and Rain" quickly rose to...
   
   " / "My Sweet Lord
   My Sweet Lord
   "My Sweet Lord" is a song by former Beatles lead guitarist George Harrison from his UK number one hit triple album All Things Must Pass. The song was written in praise of the Hindu god Krishna...
   
   " (James Taylor
   James Taylor
   James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....
   
    / George Harrison
   George Harrison
   George Harrison, MBE was an English musician, guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other...
   
   )
2. "When I Was Small" (M. Shekter)
3. "Nickel Song" (Safka)
4. (Peter introduces one of his own songs) "I Can Say You're Beautiful" (Peter Doyle
   Peter Doyle (singer)
   Peter John Doyle was an Australian pop singer who had success with a number of Top 40 hits in Australia in the 1960s, then success internationally as a member of the New Seekers in the early 1970s, before resuming a solo career in 1973.-Early career:He started his career at the age of 9 appearing...
   
   )
5. (Paul and his Napoleon character) "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" (Backer / Davis / Greenaway
   Roger Greenaway
   Roger Greenaway , is a popular English songwriter, best known for his collaborations with Roger Cook.-Career:...
   
    / Cook
   Roger Cook (songwriter)
   Roger Cook is an English songwriter who has written many hits for other recording artists. He has also had a successful recording career in his own right.-Early life:Cook was born in Fishponds, Bristol, England...
   
   )

Side Three

1. "I'm a Train" (Albert Hammond
   Albert Hammond
   Albert Hammond OBE is a British singer, songwriter and record producer from Gibraltar.-Birth and early success:Hammond was born in London, England, where his family had been evacuated to from Gibraltar during World War II. His family returned to Gibraltar shortly after his birth, and there he grew...
   
    / Mike Hazelwood
   Mike Hazelwood (singer)
   Mike Hazlewood was an English singer, composer and songwriter.-Biography:Educated at Hazelwick School, in Crawley, West Sussex, Hazlewood began his career as a DJ at the radio station Radio Luxembourg in the early 1960s. In 1966 he founded the group The Family Dogg, together with Albert Hammond...
   
   )
2. "Circles" (Harry Chapin
   Harry Chapin
   Harry Forster Chapin was an American singer-songwriter best known in particular for his folk rock songs including "Taxi", "W*O*L*D", and the number-one hit "Cat's in the Cradle". Chapin was also a dedicated humanitarian who fought to end world hunger; he was a key player in the creation of the...
   
   )
3. "Blackberry Way
   Blackberry Way
   "Blackberry Way" is a single by The Move.Written by Roy Wood and produced by Jimmy Miller, "Blackberry Way" was a bleak counterpoint to the sunny psychedelia of earlier recordings. It nevertheless became the band's most successful single reaching #1 on the UK singles chart. Richard Tandy who would...
   
   " (Roy Wood
   Roy Wood
   Roy Adrian Wood is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He was particularly successful in the 1960s and 1970s as member and co-founder of the bands The Move, Electric Light Orchestra, and Wizzard. As a songwriter, he contributed a number of hits to the repertoire of these bands.-Career:Wood...
   
   )
4. "Beautiful People" (Safka)
5. "Good Old Fashioned Music" (Gary Sulsh / Stuart Leathwood)
6. "I'll Be Home" (Randy Newman
   Randy Newman
   Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant pop songs and for film scores....
   
   )

Side Four

1. "Tonight" (Wood)
2. "Angel of the Morning
   Angel of the Morning
   "Angel of the Morning" is a popular song that has been recorded numerous times, and has been a charting hit single for several artists including Juice Newton, Merrilee Rush, Nina Simone, P.P...
   
   " (Chip Taylor
   Chip Taylor
   James Wesley Voight , better known by his stage name as Chip Taylor, is an American songwriter, who is noted for writing the songs "Angel of the Morning" and "Wild Thing." He is the brother of actor Jon Voight and geologist Barry Voight...
   
   )
3. "Get Ourselves Together" / "Someday" (Bonnie Bramlett
   Bonnie Bramlett
   Bonnie Bramlett is an American singer and sometime actress known for her distinctive vocals in rock and pop music. This began in the mid 1960s as a backing singer, forming the husband-and-wife team of Delaney & Bonnie, and continuing to the present day as a solo artist.-Life and career:Bramlett...
   
    / Carl Radle
   Carl Radle
   Carl Dean Radle was a bass guitarist who toured and recorded with many of the most influential recording artists of the late 1960s and 1970s...
   
    / J. Allison / B. Bramlett / D. Gilmore)
4. "When There's No Love Left" (Brian Peacock / Rob Lovett)
5. (Lyn gets to do her own thing) "I'm a Nut" (Leroy Pullins)
6. "Beg, Steal or Borrow
   Beg, Steal or Borrow
   "Beg, Steal or Borrow" was the British entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1972, performed in English by The New Seekers.The song was composed and written by Tony Cole, Steve Wolfe and Graeme Hall. In the night of the contest, the song was directed by David Mackay.The song is directed to a...
   
   " (Tony Cole / Graeme Hall / Steve Woolfe)

US track listing

Side One

1. "There's a Light"
2. "One"
3. "Look What They've Done to My Song Ma"
4. "Georgy Girl" / "Ticket to Ride"
5. "Never Ending Song of Love"

Side Two

1. "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing"
2. "Nickel Song"
3. "Circles"
4. "Beg, Steal or Borrow"
5. "Beautiful People"
6. "Good Old Fashioned Music"