Comments on: The song “Massachusetts” comes full circle https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/the-song-massachusetts-comes-full-circle/ A blog about political change, among other things Mon, 05 Jul 2021 17:36:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Celadon https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/the-song-massachusetts-comes-full-circle/#comment-2562756 Mon, 05 Jul 2021 17:36:27 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=107372#comment-2562756 I adore Robin’s unique quivering voice and how emotionally he sang. So many vocal treats – Lamplight, I Can’t See Nobody, Mr Natural, Voices, Country Lanes. I could listen/watch Robin’s 1974 Melbourne live performance of “And the Sun Will Shine” again and again. Exquisite.

]]> By: Ruth https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/the-song-massachusetts-comes-full-circle/#comment-2562671 Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:22:44 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=107372#comment-2562671 Thanks for introducing me to The Seekers!
Judith Durham has a lovely voice and I do hear that little something that made you think of Robin Gibb. She projects such crisp confidence and competence though that it may work against the romance of the song. I kept picturing a Mom gassing up the minivan, headed back East….
Robin’s tone is softer…conveying tender yearning – and maybe some ambivalence. Neo, as you were saying, it took me awhile to appreciate Robin’s uniqueness. Now I’m one of those who really, really, really do!
From a trove of articles and interview transcripts:
Bee Gees Fan Fever Blogspot. Here the Gibbs relate the back story of 50 songs (many lesser-known ones):
https://beegeesfanfever.blogspot.com/2014/06/meaning-of-songs.html
“MASSACHUSETTS “
BARRY GIBB: It’s basically antiflower power… Don’t go to San Francisco, come home… We wanted to write the opposite of what it’s like to lose somebody who went to San Francisco. The lights all went out in Massachusetts because everybody went to San Francisco, because they left.
ROBIN GIBB: It is not talking about people going back to Massachusetts. It represents all the people who want to go back to somewhere or something. It is all about people who want to escape.

]]> By: Zara A https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/the-song-massachusetts-comes-full-circle/#comment-2562662 Sun, 04 Jul 2021 23:15:06 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=107372#comment-2562662 Massachusetts on French TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k68oPsss9I

]]> By: Zara A https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/the-song-massachusetts-comes-full-circle/#comment-2562659 Sun, 04 Jul 2021 23:06:27 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=107372#comment-2562659 Dear Neo, thanks for the article on Massachusetts. It’s great for us that Bee Gees sang the song themselves, they are the best! And Robin is Robin 😉

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/the-song-massachusetts-comes-full-circle/#comment-2562650 Sun, 04 Jul 2021 22:03:46 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=107372#comment-2562650 Ed:

I believe she was indeed full of it. See this.

]]> By: Ed https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/the-song-massachusetts-comes-full-circle/#comment-2562646 Sun, 04 Jul 2021 21:37:18 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=107372#comment-2562646 We were taught to sing in high school French class something like “Je vous returnez dans mon village” to the tune of “Massachusetts”, the teacher claimed it was a French folk tune and fumed at the Bee Gees. Ha ha, we thought she was full of it.

]]> By: Drcool#1 https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/the-song-massachusetts-comes-full-circle/#comment-2562637 Sun, 04 Jul 2021 20:28:41 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=107372#comment-2562637 Neo, thank you ..you are a great teacher…I visit your site daily.. Judith Durham is a favorite..I have spent my life studying and working. ..no regrets ..but you have opened me to many tings..thank you

]]> By: Ira M. Siegel https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/the-song-massachusetts-comes-full-circle/#comment-2562634 Sun, 04 Jul 2021 19:40:26 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=107372#comment-2562634 That should have been “most beautiful voice ever.”

]]> By: Ira M. Siegel https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/the-song-massachusetts-comes-full-circle/#comment-2562631 Sun, 04 Jul 2021 19:16:38 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=107372#comment-2562631 Judith Durham—she may have had (heck, she’s 78 now) the most beautiful ever.

]]> By: bob sykes https://thenewneo.com/2021/07/03/the-song-massachusetts-comes-full-circle/#comment-2562603 Sun, 04 Jul 2021 11:50:52 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=107372#comment-2562603 Having watched TBDBITL do script Ohio many times, I always wished some band would do script Massachusetts, or even script Mississippi. Texas has a band formation that is a script Texas, but they simply marched into it from different angles, there is no scripting involved.

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