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Thread #72837 Message #2014235
Posted By: Dave'sWife
02-Apr-07 - 07:24 AM
Thread Name: Origins: I Started a Joke
Subject: RE: Origins: I Started a Joke
Slightly off-topic - my favorite album of theirs is one that didn't do very well, it was a country concept album called Life In a Tin Can and came out in the early 70s. It starts out strong with a song called "I Saw a New Morning" . Pronounced by them as "I soar a new morninG (with a hard G)
When I sang as part of a sister act with my older sister, we often got requests for bee gees songs due to the close harmonies. 'Massachusetts ' was a big favorite with family, friends and crowds as was "I've got a get a message to you". The latter being oner of those condemned prisoner songs people seem to love for some reason. Heck, we could have done a whole show back then with such songs we knew - The Prisoners Song (if I had the wings of an Angel), Defying Gravity (executioners song) written by jesse Winchester, The Green Green Grass of Home, Folsom Prison (at least he's not condemned to die, just a Lifer).