Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"New York Mining Disaster 1941" is the debut American single by the Bee Gees, released on 14 April 1967. It was written by Barry and Robin Gibb.Aside from 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 both the UK and the US.
New York Mining Disaster 1941 was released on Spin Records by the Bee Gees in 1967. It was their second EP and, like their first EP, was released only in Australia. [2] All of the songs on this EP were originally released on their third LP Bee Gees' 1st.
Maybe Someone Is Digging Underground - The Songs of the Bee Gees, various artists - features "New York Mining Disaster 1941" (Castle Music, CMQCD 963) (2005) Brumbeat: the Story of the 60s Midlands Sound , various artists, Disc 2 features "Wizard of Gobsolod" (Castle Records-Castle Music Ltd. [UK], CMEDD1146) (2006)
In addition to its trio of Sensitive Guy hit singles (elegantly schlocky "Holiday," quiet desperation classic "New York Mining Disaster 1941" and the Motown-indebted "To Love Somebody" which would also be a British hit for Nina Simone), the album is a veritable fruit basket of sweet stuff: from the chamber psychedelia of "Red Chair, Fade Away ...
Dave Matthews Band River Incident to the tune of @BeeGees "New York Mining Disaster 1941". Happy anniversary to all who celebrate (please don't dump raw sewage into a river or lake).
Oswald Russell "Ossie" Byrne (1926 – December 1983) was an Australian record producer, best known for producing the early recordings of The Bee Gees, including their first international hit, "New York Mining Disaster 1941". The youngest of nine children, he was born into a musical family in Queanbeyan, New South Wales.
Within months their first international single, "New York Mining Disaster 1941", had become a major British and US hit reaching the top 20 in both markets, while "Massachusetts" reached number 1 in the UK and number 11 in the US, launching a string of Bee Gees hits that continued throughout the late 1960s and beyond. When Brian Epstein ...
The miners became trapped around midnight local time when a lift malfunctioned at the Cargill Salt Mines.