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There are two different versions of the story and legend behind this song. One is:
Season in the Sun is definitely not a happy song, even very sad. It is the work of French singer jacques brel, formerly known as Le Moribund, published in 196 1. The content of the song roughly describes a man who is suffering from cancer and dying. When facing death, he is reluctant to part with his father, wife and best friend. Buhrer wrote this song with emotion because he found out that he had cancer. After fighting for more than ten years, he died at the age of 49 on 19781October 9.
Rod McKuen, an American poet and singer who has a close personal relationship with buhrer, translated this song into English "Seasons in the Sun" very early, and recorded it by Kingston Trio, a folk veteran of 1964, but it didn't cause much sensation at that time. Later, Terry Jacks, who had a good relationship with Rod McKuen, re-recorded, and/kloc-0 won the three-week championship in the United States on March 2, 974. A few years later, Kodak's advertisement caused crazy popularity, but unfortunately the lead singer Terry Jacks had already disappeared from the music scene. There are not many songs left by male singers, but this song has become a classic.
Terry Jacks, from Canada, grew up in Vancouver and won an art scholarship in high school, but he chose the latter in three industries: architect, professional golf and music, and formed his own band The Chessman, but it was not successful. Once, his band was invited to perform on TV, which introduced him to a beautiful female singer, Susan Pesklevits. They fell in love at first sight, then got married and started cooperation in music.
At that time, the choir seemed to be very popular in the record market, so even if only his wife sang solo, they decided to use the name of the poppy family, and in 1970, they became famous with the song "Which direction are you going, Billy" and won the second place in the United States. Unfortunately, the couple broke up on 1973.
After the divorce, Terry Jaxx continued to struggle in the music industry. Because he plays the guitar well, he was invited to accompany the beach boy. Once when recording, he suggested that the beach boy record the song "Season in the Sun". However, after the recording, the beach boy decided not to let it go, probably because the effect was not satisfactory. Terry liked this song so much that he decided to sing it himself in memory of a good friend who died unexpectedly.
With the author's consent, Terry slightly modified the last paragraph of lyrics and handled it with a brisk rhythm to make the song look more relaxed, but it was shelved for a year after completion. One day, he took out the tape and listened to it. It happened that a young newsboy came to his house and heard the song, so he asked him if he could bring his friends to enjoy it.
The young people's reaction made Terry decide to release the song himself. Sure enough, this song caused a sensation in Canada, and American record companies also came here and obtained the distribution rights. 1March, 974, this song not only won the three-week chart, but also became a gold record, with sales exceeding 6 million copies, making it famous all over the world. Soon after, he recorded another Brel work "If You Leave", which was also translated into English by McQueen and achieved good results. It's a pity that he was only a flash in the pan in the music world, and disappeared after one year.
Next, there is another legend in this song, which is hard to distinguish between true and false:
It is said that in the winter of 1963, the United States was freezing. Terryjacks, a Canadian boy who came to the American music scene, was sitting in an unheated room drinking brandy and listening to Le Moribon by French singer jacques brel. I have been in America for many days, but no musician is interested in his music. He looked at a business card that his friend had just given him, copied the last words of a condemned man behind his back, listened to Remaury Bond, looked at the words on the back of the business card, picked up the guitar and began to play gently. ...
"In the 1950s, there were two teenagers in a small town in America. Let's call them a and c for the time being. A and C were born in the same neighborhood and grew up together. They always climb trees, play games and sometimes do something out of line together. Anyway, they are inseparable, even if they go to school in the same class, and so on until high school. Hey, you know what? Although A and C are excellent friends, they have different personalities. A, it's definitely the kind of boy who likes it at first sight. He is energetic, cheerful, sunny, confident and very good at sports, so his popularity is quite good. There are countless girls who secretly love him in the whole school, and he is also the captain of the school football team. Hmm! Very attractive, really attractive to you, right? On the other hand, C's character is just the opposite. He is sensitive and shy, and he is not good at expressing his feelings, but his handwork is great. He can make various models.
"Everything is fine, but God tortures people. He made two boys fall in love with B, a sexy and charming class flower. You can imagine the result, right? C silently watched his friends and lovers together … until graduation, C became a carpenter; A became a truck driver, married B, and gave birth to her daughter Michelle. B also ran a grocery store, which was her dowry. However, in order to make her family live a better life and give her daughter a good education, A has to transport goods across several states or even across the whole United States, so she can only go home once or twice a month to see her family and take a bus to deliver the goods the next day. In contrast, as a carpenter, C is much more relaxed, so he often comes to the grocery store to help B.
"But with the passage of time, B and C became more and more relative, and the two lonely hearts got closer and closer, which gradually produced the feeling of surpassing friends. That feeling lasted for two years, but A didn't notice it at all. He still loves his family and trusts his friends. ...
"1959 In the winter, A was still driving a truck on the intercontinental highway, but the road was closed due to heavy snow, and people had to wait for the road to be unblocked. But A waited for two days, and things didn't seem to get better. The weather forecast said that this bad weather would last for another week, so A turned around and drove home for another three days. At two o'clock in the morning, he finally got home. He got off the bus and called home with great joy, but no one answered. A is very worried. I wonder if her daughter is ill in hospital. He immediately drove to C's house to inquire about the situation at home. He knocked on the door of C's house. There were two people in front of him-his friend and his wife! In this scene, even if A is slow again, he immediately understands what happened. He looked at the two people in front of him and said only one word: "Why?" Where is the answer to this question! A took out his pistol to defend himself, killed his wife and friends, and then drove straight to the police station.
"He could have fled to Linzhou to avoid the death penalty, but he chose to go directly to the police station and try in this state. The jury unanimously passed that he committed the crime of intentional homicide and was sentenced to death. /kloc-0 was executed by the electric chair on February 6, 957. He was put on death row, and three days before his execution, a piece of paper and a pen were stuffed in to write his last words. "
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