The Writing Background of Four Seasons in Sunny Season

Season in the Sun is a classic cover of Westlife, which is a household name. Its original author is jacques brel.

Not a good song.

In fact, "The Season in the Sun" is definitely not a good song, and 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 McCann

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 won the American three-week championship on March 2 1974. At first, it didn't get much attention in China, until a few years later, because Kodak's advertisements were wildly popular in Taiwan Province Province. Unfortunately, lead singer Terry Jaxx has disappeared from the music industry. There are not many songs left by the male singer, but this song has become a classic-although to be honest, his interpretation is a bit distorted.

About Terry Jaxx

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.

chorus

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.

make an effort

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.

modify

With the author's consent, Terry slightly modified the last paragraph of the lyrics and processed it at a brisk pace 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.

Young people's reaction

Let Terry decide to release this 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.

Another version

There is another version about the origin of this song. It is said that in the winter of 1963, the United States was freezing. Terry Jacks, a Canadian boy who came to the American music stage, was sitting in an unheated room, drinking brandy and listening to French singer jacques brel's Lemoribond. 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 Lemory Bond and looked at the words on the back of the business card. He picked up the guitar and began to play it gently ... "In a small town in the United States in the 1950s, there were two teenagers. 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. Although A and C are excellent friends, they have different personalities. A is definitely the kind of boy you like at first sight: he is full of energy, cheerful, sunny, confident, very good at sports and quite popular. There are countless girls who secretly love him in the whole school, and he is also the captain of the school football team. On the other hand, C's character is just the opposite. He is sensitive and shy and not good at expressing his feelings, but his handiwork is great and 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. As a result, it is conceivable that 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, C, as a carpenter, is much more relaxed, so he often comes to the grocery store to help B. "But as time goes by, B and C become more and more lonely, and the two lonely hearts get closer and closer, gradually producing 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 ... "1In the dead of winter in 959, A was still driving a van on the intercontinental highway, but the road was closed by heavy snow, so people had to wait. 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! This kind of scene, even if A is slow again, will immediately understand 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. "

licity

Although legally, A committed the crime of intentional homicide; But among the people, many people think that A is also a great victim morally. As a result, people copied his last words. The last words on the back of the business card that Terry Jaxx got at 1963 were copied by a friend. Terry Jaxx put A's last words into Remaury Bond's music, and wrote Season in the Sun. He played this song for musicians everywhere, but which musician would invest in an unknown person? Finally, he found the beach boy and sang this song to them. This song is great. Beach Boys covered the song himself, but unfortunately he couldn't convey the emotion of the song, so Terry Jacks borrowed the studio to re-record. However, because their album was full at that time, the song was not included. It was not until ten years later, 1973, that this song finally became popular, and there were many cover versions. In the background of the second song, explain the lyrics: unlike what we often see, We have joy, We have fun in the west city version, and the original we have fun uses "have" to express the author's hope. He hopes to be happy forever, but death is approaching, which is never possible.