The New Seekers: The Best of the New Seekers Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.5
Video		0.0
Audio		5.0
Extras		0.0
Overall		3.5

The New Seekers: The Best of the New Seekers Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman September 3, 2025

Note: For the ninth grouped assortment of Quadio Blu-ray releases, Rhino is doing something a bit unusual, offering Greatest Hits (or something similar) albums from the New Seekers, Bread, Carly Simon and Judy Collins.

A lot of popular songs have been recycled, sometimes repeatedly (and with absolutely horrible "alternative" lyrics), in any number of commercials, but the list of tunes that were actually originally written for commercials and which later, in a more radio friendly running time, became hits is somewhat more elite. A lot of people instantly think of the New Seekers' (and Hillside Singers') I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (in Perfect Harmony, which was famously a Coca Cola jingle (and, later, a memorable capper for Mad Men. Kind of interestingly in that regard, another cola jingle, namely one for Pepsi, had its own hit version as Music to Watch Girls By, and there are a number of other memorable hit songs (including We've Only Just Begun) that started in ads and which enterprising internet sleuths might have fun looking into. While this ostensible "best of" album does have a couple of the group's biggest hits, the aforementioned Coke tune and Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma, the compilation is kind of an odd aggregation of lower charting singles and even non charting singers, and the track list here omits at least a couple of memorable songs they did that at least got some airplay and chart traction, like Pinball Wizard. It may be passingly interesting to those who, like me, find it fascinating how certain tunes are huge hits in some regions of the globe but not others, to take a gander at how well a number of the songs on this album did in the UK as opposed to on this side of the pond (where, to continue the fish and/or water analogy, they tanked).

This album's track list can be seen in the screenshots of the disc menu I've uploaded to accompany this review.

The New Seekers: The Best of the New Seekers Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

As with most Quadio releases, this features a static menu. While colored buttons aren't operable, you can toggle between audio codecs by using the audio button on your remote, and also commendably toggling does not start the song over. Screenshots 9 and 10 show how the color of the track changes if you scroll through the list before choosing something.

The New Seekers: The Best of the New Seekers Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

The Best of the New Seekers features DTS-HD Master Audio 4.0 and DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 options. The quadraphonic mix is both wonderfully spacious but also what might be termed an immersive wall(s) of sound album where massed voices and instruments tend to surround the listener from all sides. There's an undeniable "middle of the road" or "easy listening" gloss to many of the arrangements which may not be to everyone's taste, but instrumentation sounds bright and clear (there's some especially nice separation between guitars and percussion) and vocals are typically nicely warm and well prioritized.

The New Seekers: The Best of the New Seekers Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

There are no on disc supplements like bonus tracks. The insert booklet reproduces some of the album art along with the Quadio standard picture of a master tape and the usual "bass management" verbiage on the back cover. The disc is labelled like the vintage Elektra album with a butterfly logo.

The New Seekers: The Best of the New Seekers Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

In a way, all four of the Greatest Hits (and/or similar formulations) being offered as the current cohort of Quadio releases are probably inarguably on the pop side of things, and as such it might even be suggested that the New Seekers are kind of pre-fab in a way that Bread (probably the next most pre-fab), Judy Collins and Carly Simon aren't. Still, the album is slickly produced and the vocals are all great. The Quadio mix is nicely immersive and very enjoyable. Recommended.