New York Mining Disaster 1941

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"New York Mining Disaster 1941"
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Single by the Bee Gees
from the album Bee Gees' 1st
B-side "I Can't See Nobody" [1]
Released14 April 1967
Recorded13–16 March 1967
Studio IBC (London)
Genre Folk rock [2]
Length2:09
Label
  • Polydor (United Kingdom, Europe, Japan)
  • Atco (United States, Canada, Mexico)
  • Spin (Australia, New Zealand)
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
The Bee Gees singles chronology
"Born a Man"
(1967)		"New York Mining Disaster 1941"
(1967)		"To Love Somebody"
(1967)
Audio sample
"New York Mining Disaster 1941"

Sales

Sales for New York Mining Disaster
RegionSales
Worldwide1,000,000 [22]

Legacy

The 1969 David Bowie song "Space Oddity" owes a debt to the style, arrangement and lyrics of "New York Mining Disaster 1941." Like "New York Mining Disaster 1941," "Space Oddity" is about a trapped man who is doomed to die, and the song is similarly structured as a series of statements addressed to another person. "'Space Oddity' was a Bee Gees type song," Bowie's colleague John "Hutch" Hutchinson has said. "David knew it, and he said so at the time, the way he sang it, it’s a Bee Gees thing." [23] As Marc Bolan explained: "I remember David playing me 'Space Oddity' in his room and I loved it and he said he needed a sound like the Bee Gees, who were very big then."

Paul McCartney said: "It was the 'Mining Disaster' song that [Robert Stigwood] played me. I said 'sign them, they're great!' And they went on to be even greater." [24]

The Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami made "New York Mining Disaster" the title of one of his short stories. The piece was included in his collection Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman . [25]

In 2000, the rapper Necro sampled "New York Mining Disaster 1941" on the song Underground from his album I Need Drugs . [26]

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