New York Mining Disaster 1941 - Bee Gees (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Bee Gees, 1967). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2021-09-13. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"

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"New York Mining Disaster 1941" was the Bee Gees first entree onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1967 and landing at the #14 position (Whitburn, 2013). Interesting that the song title never appears in the song itself. The song was inspired by the Aberfan, South Wales mining disaster of 1966 (B. Demain, mentalfloss.com, Sept. 13, 2012). When released, DJs thought that this was a new Beatles' song because it sounded so much like the Beatles (beegees.fandom.com, 2021). Maurice Gibb (bass guitarist and vocalist) has said that in the USA the DJs "started playing [the song] and saying, they're this new group from England that begins with a B and finished with an s so they all said, Ah it's The Beatles, not naming it, they're doing that trick again. The disc jockey would play it and play it and play it and, [ask] Guess who it is? and people would guess, and they wouldn't get the answer. I heard [the idea] came actually from Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler (beegees.fandom.com, 2021).