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Originally playing folk songs, the band found success hard to come by during the beat era and so converted to a more mainstream sound. [2] In 1964, they had a regional hit in the Chicago area of the United States, and in Australia, with a cover of "Don't It Make You Feel Good", a song written and recorded by The Shadows in UK.
The American success of "Yesterday's Gone" occasioned a re-release of the track in Australia, [8] where it charted over the summer of 1964 with a No. 26 peak, and a major label cover in the UK, where in March 1964 Pye Records released a version of "Yesterday's Gone" recorded by the Overlanders with Tony Hatch producing; the Overlanders' version ...
The song was a UK hit in January 1966 for the Overlanders, [40] whose version topped the Record Retailer chart. [20] It also reached number 2 in Australia. Signed to Pye Records , the Overlanders issued their recording after the Beatles had declined to release it as a single themselves in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Paul Brett (20 June 1947 – 31 January 2024) [1] was an English classic rock guitarist.He played lead guitar with Strawbs (although he was never actually a member), The Overlanders, [2] The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, The Velvet Opera, Tintern Abbey, Fire, Roy Harper, Al Stewart, and Lonnie Donegan. [3]
The Overlanders produced records, including Songs of the Breaker (1980) and Songs of the Great Australian Balladists (1978). [ 1 ] In 1996, Graham Jenkin was awarded the title of National Non-Indigenous Person of the Year, by the National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee ( NAIDOC ), for services to Aboriginal history.
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Gary Rhett Shearston (9 January 1939 – 1 July 2013) was an Australian singer-songwriter and Anglican priest. He was a leading figure of the folk music revival of the 1960s and performed traditional folk songs in an authentic style.
A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads, often using a syncopated beat resembling the sound of train wheels over train tracks.Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in nearly all musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde.