Keith’s musical career started well before The Seekers first stormed the UK charts in 1965 with Tom Springfield`s ‘I’ll Never Find Another You’. He was a self-taught musician, playing the banjo, 12 string guitar and recorder, and with an eye to a musical future, he performed in two groups, The Trinamics and The Escorts. The Escorts were a fore-runner of The Seekers, and consisted of Keith, Athol Guy, Ken Ray and Bob Turnbull. When Bob Turnbull was replaced by Bruce Woodley, and when Judith Durham joined, replacing Ken Ray, the group became The Seekers.
At first they all had day jobs. Keith was a radio producer for the ABC which meant he had access to a recording studio. When they could find the time, and the studio was free, the newly-formed Seekers laid down some demo tapes (released years later as The Seekers’ Golden Collection.) In the evenings they performed at a Melbourne coffee lounge, The Treble Clef, now no longer in existence but famed as the place that gave birth to this world-famous band.
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