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Seasons In The Sun by Terry Jacks
Terry Jacks
Artist Biography For Terry Jacks
Terry Jacks Born 29 March 1944 In Winnipeg Manitoba Canada Is A Canadian Singer Songwriter Record Producer And Environmentalist. His Family Relocated To Vancouver In The Early 1960s And Jacks Took Up Guitar In His Teens And At 18 Formed A Band Called The Chessmen With Guitarist Guy Sobell. The Group Had Four Top-Ten Hits In Vancouver Between 1964 And 1966. He Was Half Of The Pop Group The Poppy Family 1968–1973 Along With His Then-Wife Susan Jacks Before Producing Several Solo Records. In 1974 He Had A Worldwide Hit Single With Seasons In The Sun. In 1987 He Released His Last Album And Seems Not To Be Performing Any More.
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"Seasons In The Sun" Is An English-Language Adaptation Of The Song "Le Moribond" By Belgian Singer-Songwriter Jacques Brel With Lyrics By American Singer-Poet Rod McKuen. It Became A Worldwide Hit In 1974 For Terry Jacks And Became A Christmas Number 1 In 1999 For Westlife. The Terry Jacks' Version Is One Of The Fewer Than Forty All-Time Singles To Have Sold 10 Million Copies Worldwide. The Song Is A Dying Protagonist's Farewell To Relatives And Friends. The McKuen "translation" Keeps The Same Theme As Brel's Original But Delivers A Less Mordant Message. For Example Brel's Lines That Mean "You Can Dance Do Not Frown/when They Lay Me In The Ground" Become "But The Stars We Could Reach/Were Just Starfish On The Beach." It Has Been Described As Saccharine By Some But It Connected Powerfully With A World-Wide Audience And The Jacks Version Was A Huge Chart-Topper.
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Biography - Terry Jacks
Terry Jacks Born 29 March 1944 In Winnipeg Manitoba Canada Is A Canadian Singer Songwriter Record Producer And Environmentalist. His Family Relocated To Vancouver In The Early 1960s And Jacks Took Up Guitar In His Teens And At 18 Formed A Band Called The Chessmen With Guitarist Guy Sobell. The Group Had Four Top-Ten Hits In Vancouver Between 1964 And 1966. He Was Half Of The Pop Group The Poppy Family 1968–1973 Along With His Then-Wife Susan Jacks Before Producing Several Solo Records. In 1974 He Had A Worldwide Hit Single With Seasons In The Sun. In 1987 He Released His Last Album And Seems Not To Be Performing Any More.
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"Seasons in the Sun" is an English-language adaptation of the song "Le Moribond" by Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel, with lyrics by American singer-poet Rod McKuen. It became a worldwide hit in 1974 for Terry Jacks and became a Christmas Number 1 in 1999 for Westlife. The Terry Jacks' version is one of the fewer than forty all-time singles to have sold 10 million copies worldwide.
The song is a dying protagonist's farewell to relatives and friends. The McKuen "translation" keeps the same theme as Brel's original, but delivers a less mordant message. For example, Brel's lines that mean "You can dance, do not frown/when they lay me in the ground" become "But the stars we could reach/Were just starfish on the beach." It has been described as saccharine by some, but it connected powerfully with a world-wide audience, and the Jacks version was a huge chart-topper. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.