Coming up….one of the greatest one hit wonder of the 70s..a song about a man dying of a broken heart that evolved into a tribute to a childhood friend dying of cancer that became the biggest selling single in Canadian History. Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks became one of the most celebrated pop songs of the 20th century. It was actually rejected by the Beach Boys the story of this enduring classic is coming up NEXT on Professor of Rock.
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It’s time for another edition of our series Bottled Lightening where we celebrate a song that was king for a day or for many days. We honor artists and bands and that one glorious hit they had that rocketed up the charts…and for reasons unknown didn’t have another hit. We all know them for the term one hit wonder but we try to step beyond that and celebrate them as Lightening in a bottle. Today we focus on a song that is both happy and quite dark. It’s a song that deserves a thorough breakdown… Today we take a walk though “Seasons in the Sun”- a song that was bottled lightening for Canadian singer/ songwriter Terry Jacks in 1973.
While I was preparing for this feature, I remembered a conversation that I was Having with my business partner a while back, he told me a story that really hit home. He said the he attended a funeral some years back, for the father of one of his best friends. The deceased was also like a father to him. As the casket was being carried away to the burial site after a very emotional service, he said that there was an eerie silence… And then…all of a sudden, the birds in the nearby trees began to sing, their chirping slowly getting louder and louder, until the flock was in harmony like a beautiful choir.
For a moment, the birdsong was all that you could hear. In that moment… he said that he remembered feeling a peacefulness that he had never experienced before. He said that It was almost as if the birds were there to comfort him and the others that were there… the bird were conveying the message that this dear decreased man was at rest, and that precious life was ready to move forward… I was astounded when he told me about this, because I had a similar experience which I’ll share later… but this feeling immediately took me back to the gripping lyric in Verse 2 of “Seasons in the Sun” : “Goodbye Papa, it’s hard to die, When all the birds are singing in the sky, Now that the spring is in the air. Little children everywhere When you see them, I’ll be there…
Before “Seasons in the Sun” found its way to Terry Jacks, the song had a very unorthodox journey that began with Belgian singer/ composer & actor, Jacques Brel. Sitting at a table inside a brothel located in Tangier, Morocco, Brel wrote a tragic song about a man dying of a broken heart he titled “Le Moribond”, translated in English as “The Dying Man”