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Today’s Video: Bee Gees -"New York Mining Disaster 1941"  

"New York Mining Disaster 1941" is a 1967 song by the Bee Gees, written by Barry and Robin Gibb. Barring a moderately successful reissue of their Australian single "Spicks and Specks", it was the first single release of the group's international career and their first song to hit the charts in the US or UK.

Barry and Robin Gibb wrote the song when they were sitting on a darkened staircase at Polydor Records following a power cut. The echo of the passing lift inspired them to imagine that they were trapped in a mine. The song recounts the story of a miner trapped in a cave-in. He is sharing a photo of his wife with a colleague ("Mr. Jones") while they hopelessly wait to be rescued. According to the liner notes for their box-set Tales from the Brothers Gibb (1990), this song was inspired by the 1966 Aberfan mining disaster in Wales.

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Today's Video: Bee Gees - Born a Man

“Born a Man” is from Spicks and Specks. Spicks and Specks is the Bee Gees' second album. It was released in Australia in 1966 as Monday's Rain with "Spicks and Specks" released as the album's first single. The album was quickly re-released as Spicks and Specks to capitalize on the success of the single. The success of "Spicks and Specks" across Australia, where it was a top-five hit in every state, propelled them to move to England in 1967 to further their musical career. 

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Like several other pop titles, such as "Streets of London"(1969) by Ralph Mc Tell, "Rain and Tears"(1968) by Aphrodite's Child, and several French songs of that period, the harmony of this song is directly taken from the famous Pachelbel's Canon, and the fascination this harmony generally captures always helped songs to become big hits. By the way, "Spicks and Specks" was historically the first hit to re-use Pachelbel's harmony.

 

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Today’s Video: Bee Gees - "Monday's Rain"

"Monday's Rain" is a song by the English rock band Bee Gees, written by Barry Gibb, and released as the opening track on their album Spicks and Specks. Lead vocals are by Robin Gibb, and except for the second verse which is sung by Barry.

This song has unusually low-voiced vocals by Robin and Barry Gibb with a lead bass guitar break. It appeared on the single and album with two different vocal tracks. -wiki

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Today’s Video: Bee Gees - I Want Home

I Want Home is a song by the English rock band Bee Gees, written by Barry Gibb and released as a single in Australia in early 1966, backed with "Cherry Red". Their last single on Leedon was not a hit, so the credit "Barry Gibb and the Bee Gees" used on the last several discs now reverted to simply "Bee Gees". With these two songs the Bee Gees inaugurated Festival's new four-track recording equipment, If the multitrack tapes still existed stereo mixes would have been possible but only the mono mixdowns survived.