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"I Started a Joke" is a song by the Bee Gees from their 1968 album Idea, which was released as a single in December of that year. It was not released as a single in the United Kingdom, where buyers who could not afford the album had to content themselves with a Polydor version by Heath Hampstead.
Barry Gibb sang "I Started a Joke" for the first time with Robin singing the rest of the song on the video screen with the band. [6] In April 2013, Gibb announced his first solo UK tour and that he would play five dates in the United Kingdom and Ireland between 21 September and 3 October. [7]
It was also released as the B-side of "I Started a Joke" in most territories. This song's length was 2:14 in mono and 2:17 in stereo. The song was produced by the group's manager Robert Stigwood and the Bee Gees. The song was written about the Sydney ocean apartment buildings, Kilburn Towers, built in 1960.
"I Started a Joke" was not issued as a single in the UK, but it reached No. 6 in America. The UK sleeve had a lightbulb on a dark blue ground. In 2006, Reprise Records reissued Idea (using the European cover) with both stereo and mono mixes on one disc and a bonus disc of unreleased songs, non-album tracks, and alternate mixes.
"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.
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (UOGB) is a British musical ensemble founded in 1985 by George Hinchliffe and Kitty Lux.The orchestra features ukuleles of various sizes and registers from soprano to bass.
John O'Hara and His Playboys was a Glasgow 1960s–70s pop group. [1] The band had a successful career in Germany between 1962 and 1966. [2] They toured widely in Germany, headlining at the Star Club in Hamburg several times, [3] and sang with Barbara Murphy. [4]
In January 2011 a motion was started to grant Strummer his own street in the Spanish city of Granada. [47] On 21 August 2012, which would have been Strummer's 60th birthday, Hellcat Records released an exclusive 57-song digital download album titled Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros: The Hellcat Years. The album features Strummer's three Hellcat ...