1965 The Seekers: I'll Never Find Another You

After the recent spate of number ones that have advocated the more unpredictable side of love, 'I'll Never Find Another You' is very much a re-affirmation of the positive, a 'you were made for me' celebration that harks back to more innocent times. Tom Springfield's song is little more than a standard exercise in tunesmith and rhyme ("There is always someone, for each of us they say. And you'll be my someone, for ever and a day") but it's the four part harmonies of The Seekers that apply the gold plating, not least Judith Durham's everclear vocal that cuts through the schmaltz like a shard of glass - a typical performance from a woman who can lend weight to any old rubbish just by opening her mouth. Not that 'I'll Never Find Another You' is any old rubbish - a trifle sugary perhaps, but in context it provides the charts with just the right amount of sweetening rather than pouring a jug full of lactulose over it.