Judith Mavis Cock is Judith Durham real name. Her date of birth is 3 July, 1943 and place of birth is Essendon, Victoria, Australia. By profession she was an Australian singer, songwriter and musician. In the year 1963, she became the lead vocalist of the Australian famous folk music group the Seekers.The band went on to make history by being the first Australian pop music group to do well on charts and sell a lot of records in the United Kingdom and the United States.They have sold more than 50 million records around the globe.By the middle of 1968, Durham had decided to embark on a career as a solo artist and had thus quit the band. Even though she continued to be a solo singer for the most part, Durham started making occasional records and doing concerts with The Seekers in the year 1993. She was honored for her contributions to music as well as a wide variety of humanitarian activities on July 1, 2015, when she was given the title of Victorian of the Year. Judith Durham is a person that a lot of people are interested in learning about.
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Judith Durham's birthday is on 3 July, 1943 and birth place is Essendon, Victoria, Australia. Her age as of the date she passed away which was 5 August, 2022 is 79 years. Cancer is her birth sign. Her Parents are
William Alexander Cock DFC, and
Hazel Durham. Her mother's name is Hazel Durham and her father's name is William Alexander Cock DFC. Her father, William Alexander Cock DFC, was a navigator and pathfinder during World War II. She resided on Mount Alexander Road in Essendon from the time she was born until 1949, during which time she studied at the Essendon Primary School. She spent her summer vacations in the weatherboard home that her family had in Rosebud, which was located on the west side of Durham Place. Her nationality is Australian. She has 1 sibling. In siblings she has 1 sister. Her sisters name is Beverly Sheehan and she is an actress by profession.
In 1949, her father took a job in Hobart, which is located in Tasmania. Before relocating to Georgian Court, Balwyn, in Melbourne, in 1956, the Durham family resided in Taroona, a suburb of Hobart, beginning in the early 1950s. Durham was a student at the Fahan School at this time. She first attended Ruyton Girls' School in Kew and afterwards transferred to RMIT for her education. In the beginning, Durham intended to become a pianist. He attended the University of Melbourne Conservatorium and received the Associate in Music, Australia (AMusA) certificate in classical piano. She played the piano professionally and had classical voice training. She played compositions in the styles of blues, gospel, and jazz. A night when she was 18 years old, she went to the Memphis Jazz Club in Malvern and requested Nicholas Ribush, the head of the Melbourne University Jazz Band, if she could sing with the group.He said yes, and that was the beginning of her career as a singer. She started playing at the same club with Frank Traynor's Jazz Preachers under the stage name of Durham, which was her mother's maiden name in 1963.During the same year, she also made her debut recording for W&G Records, an extended play titled Judy Durham with Frank Traynor's Jazz Preachers.
At Scots' Church in Melbourne on the 21st of November, 1969, Durham tied the knot with her musical director, the British pianist Ron Edgeworth. They made their home in the United Kingdom and Switzerland up until the middle of the 1980s, when they made the decision to move to Nambour, Queensland. On the Calder Freeway in 1990, band members Durham and Edgeworth, along with their tour manager Peter Summers, were engaged in a car accident. The other vehicle's driver was pronounced dead at the site of the accident, and Durham suffered a broken wrist and leg. Due to the positive reaction from her audiences, Durham was thinking about reuniting with the other Seekers members to perform at a Silver Jubilee concert. During this get-together, Edgeworth received the news that she had motor neurone illness. On the 10th of December in 1994, he passed away while Durham was at his side.
Judith Durham Career
The Seekers were made up of Durham, Bruce Woodley, Athol Guy, and Keith Potger, who worked as a radio producer for ABC. Due to Keith Potger's employment, the three were able to create a demo tape in their leisure time. W&G Records requested another example of Durham's voice before committing to recording a Jazz Preachers album and this was sent by Durham. Instead, W&G entered a deal with the Seekers for the 1963 album called "Introducing the Seekers. "Durham did record two other tracks with the Jazz Preachers, "Muddy Water," which was on their album Jazz from the Pulpit, and "Trombone Frankie," which was a rendition of Bessie Smith's "Trombone Cholly."The Seekers embarked on a voyage to the United Kingdom aboard the S.S. Fairsky in the beginning of 1964, during which they performed as the musical entertainment on board. They had initially intended to come back after ten weeks, but after sending a copy of their debut album to the Grade Agency, they were able to secure a regular flow of bookings via the agency. Abbey Road Studios, owned by EMI, was the location where the Seekers recorded "I'll Never Find Another You" on November 4, 1964. The single climbed to the top of the charts in both the UK and Australia in February of 1965."A World of Our Own," "Morningtown Ride," and "Someday, One Day" were also Top 10 hits for the band. ""Georgy Girl" was second on the Billboard chart and number one on the Cashbox chart in the U.S. Even now, "The Carnival Is Over" is ranked in the top 50 singles in terms of sales in the UK.
More than 200,000 people attended the Seekers' concert at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, Australia, on March 12, 1967, helping the band establish an official all-time Australian record. They were all given the nation's highest honor as "Australians of the Year 1967" shortly after the conclusion of the television special that bore their name, The Seekers Down Under, which attracted the largest viewership in the history of television a rating of 67.While the band was on tour in New Zealand in February 1968, Durham broke the news to her bandmates that she was quitting the Seekers. She officially departed the band in July 1968. In August 1968, Durham moved back to Australia, and in September, An Evening with Judith Durham, her debut solo TV special, aired on the Nine Network. She launched albums with the titles Climb Every Mountain, For Christmas with Love, and Gift of Song during her time as a solo artist. Her performance of "When You Come to the End of a Perfect Day" by Carrie Jacobs-Bond was included at the end of the television show Meet Judith Durham in London, which she produced and broadcast in 1970. In the segment "The Golden Girl" from the Australian tv show Cash and Co., which aired in 1975, Judith played the character of Sarah Simmonds, a burlesque-style performer, in which she also sang and acted. This segment, which took place in the Australian goldfields in the 1800s, also included Durham Edgeworth's husband, Ron Edgeworth, performing on the piano. She sang six different tracks, namely "Oh Susanna," "Rock of Ages," "When Starlight Fades," "Maggie Mae," "There's No Place Like Home," and "The Lord Is My Shepherd."
The revenues from the album "The Australian Cities Suite" that Durham recorded were donated to various philanthropic organizations. The album's initial launch date was set to be October 2008; however, it was finally moved to April 2012.The initiative was intended to help charitable organizations, like the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Australia, of which Durham served as national patron & Orchestra Victoria, as well as other charitable organizations that receive support from the Lord Mayor's Charitable Fund or United Way, a national network that is part of it. Durham celebrated her 60th birthday by going on "The Diamond Tour" around the United Kingdom in 2003.The concert was released on CD and DVD, and it was performed at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the tour. Durham began updating the melody and wordings of "Advance Australia Fair," in 2006, which serves as the national anthem of Australia. In May of 2009, she had her first performance of it at Federation Hall, which is located on St. Kilda Road. A CD single version of it was made available.
Durham surprised everyone by making a comeback to the Myer Music Bowl, on February 13, 2009.She sang "The Carnival Is Over" as the last song at the RocKwiz Salutes the Bowl – Sidney Myer Music Bowl 50th Anniversary. Durham held a one-hour a cappella event in Melbourne on May 23, 2009, to promote her album Up Close and Personal. Durham inked an exclusive recording contract with Decca Records for the worldwide market in October 2011.So Much More is an album that was published in June 2018 in honor of Durham's 75th birthday. It has a compilation of 14 tracks, all of which had never been launched before.
Due to the fact that Durham had a hip fracture in the year 2000, she was unable to perform with the Seekers at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games held in Sydney in the same year. Despite this, she performed it while seated in a wheelchair in the Paralympics in the year 2000 soon afterwards. Durham had a stroke in May of 2013, when the Seekers were on their Golden Jubilee tour. As a result of the stroke, she lost her reading and writing abilities, both in terms of written language and musical scores. During the time that she was recovering, she made strides in regaining those talents. Her vocal skills was unaffected by the stroke she had. On August 5, 2022, at the age of 79, Durham passed away in The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne after a prolonged battle with bronchiectasis, a chronic lung illness. Victoria's government has decided to accord her the honor of a state memorial.
