Peter's musical career began at an early age when he joined Swallow's Juniors following great success in the TV show's talent contest.  Peter honed his singing, instrumental and entertaining skills performing regularly on the show for  five years and also appearing at hotels and clubs.  At the age of 14 he became a regular on the Sunday afternoon shows at Melbourne's Festival Hall and was offered his first recording contract whilst still at school.

His first solo single was a hit and was quickly followed up by several more, an album and two EPs.   Next Peter joined Grandma's Tonic recording two singles as the group's lead singer and then two more as a soloist with the group providing backing.   Further recordings came after he joined the Virgil Brothers whose success landed them a trip to the UK and then Peter was invited to join the New Seekers making numerous records and scoring a good number of international hits.

After Peter left the New Seekers, he carried on recording but releases were much less prolific, his last single was released in 1980 though happily for us,  Peter kept many unreleased recordings and from these treasures, his friends recently put together a CD of Peter's unpublished work.

First Recording

Lucky Devil / When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
A 7inch 78rpm record probably recorded at the Wilbur Williams studios
in Northcote, Victoria when Peter was about 10 years old.

1965 - Solo

Singles
Speechless (The Pick Up) / Like I Love You
Stupidity / Heigh Ho
Watcha Gonna Do About It? / Do It Zula Style

EP
Stupidity & Speechless

1966 - Solo

Singles
The Great Pretender / Everybody Loves a Lover
Something You Got Baby / Go Away
Tweedlee Dee / Mr Goodtime

EP
The Great Pretender

LP
Peter's 1st Album

1966 - Grandma's Tonic

Singles
Hi Hi Hazel / Johnny the Hummer

1967 - Grandma's Tonic

Singles
I Know / Lost Girl

1967 - Solo

Singles
If You Can Put That In A Bottle / I'm Not The Boy You're After
Plastic Dreams & Toy Balloons / You're My Remedy

1968 - The Virgil Brothers

Singles
Temptation 'Bout To Get Me / I See Her Face
Here I Am /  Shake Me, Wake Me

1969 - The Virgil Brothers

Singles
Temptation Bout To Get Me / Look Away
When You Walk Away / Good Love

EP
The Virgil Brothers

1970 - 1973 The New Seekers
See Separate Discography

1973 - Solo

Single
Rusty Hands of Time / And So In Life

1974 - Jungle Ted

Single
Jungle Ted & The Lacey Buttonpoppers

1974 - The New Seekers

Single
Sing Hallelujah / Unwithered Rose
(Released after Peter left the group but the B side
was one of his compositions with his lead vocal.)

1975 - Lyn Paul

Single
It Ought to Sell A Million (backing vocals)

1976 - Solo

Single
Friday On My Mind / We Believe In Lovin'

1977 - Solo

Single
Skin Deep / We Believe in Lovin'

LP
Skin Deep

1980 - Solo

Singles
Do You Wanna Make Love? / Wake Up With Me
This & That / It's All Over

1989 - Solo

LP
Festival Files: Speechless

2004 - Solo

CD
Rarities

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The Songwriter

In addition to his vocal and instrumental talents Peter was an
accomplished song writer.  His published songs include:

And So In Life
Boom Town
Captain Stormy (with Brian Peacock)
Cincinatti
Heart Filled Up
Heaven Help The Poor Man
I Can Say You're Beautiful
I'll Be Your Song
It's All Over
It's Now (for Davy Jones)
Lady You Got Me
Lay Me Down
Look Away
Move Me Lord
One More River
Reel Back
Rocky Lady
Sailor Man
This and That
Time Limit (with Marty Kristian)
Unwithered Rose
Wake Up With Me
The Way It Goes
Will We Find Heaven?

The Virgil Brothers EP
Odeon Label (Brazil)

Skin Deep LP
RCA  PL 25113 (1977)

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Skin Deep Harlem Dream Sailor Man Reel Back The Way It Goes Heart Filled Up Rocky Lady One More River My Shangri-la

Credits Produced by Alan Tarney and Trevor Spencer Executive Producer: David Mackay Engineer: Ashley Howe Tape Operators: Trevor Hallesey & John Gallen Assistant Engineer: Dave Harris Guitars: Alan Tarney, Peter Doyle              Jeff Whitehorn (on Heart Filled Up); Paul Keogh (slide guitar on Shangri-la) Drums & Percussion: Trevor Spencer; Simon Phillips (on Heart Filled Up) Bass: Alan Tarney Pedal Steel Guitar and Dobro: B.J. Cole Keyboards: Alan Tarney; Tony Hymas (on Heart Filled Up) Trumpet: Mac Tontoh Backing Vocals: Alan Tarney; Joy Yates, Jean Gilbert & Val Stokes (on Rocky Lady) Recorded at Roundhouse Studios, London and Morgan Studios, London