Talk:Seasons in the Sun

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the nirvana version is generally considered the worst version of the song? stop trying to write opinion off as FACT. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.121.58.168 (talk) 04:26, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Does this really belong to the teenage tragedy genre? No reason to believe this was a teen dying and the original lyrics referring to his wife would seem to indicate otherwise. Gr8white (talk) 02:03, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What about the cover regarding

I've always heard it as "We had Norwich on the run". I suspect every team with a two syllable name gets treated to a version by the away fans. If you can find a source for it, by all means it should be included as a chant. (Useful tip: a few years back there were a bunch of albums called "Bend It!" which allegedly recorded every common chant - someone at

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Listening to the Terry Jacks cover of this song on the car radio and hearing the guitar riff, I'm the first guy to say "That's Link Wray!" Sure sounds like Link. Link was an innovator and the edgy guitar work heard here (edgy for this song, at least) was in his style. Throughout the internet, the guitar riff in "Seasons in the Sun" is attributed to Link. But a long time ago I read an an interview that I can no longer locate, where Wray denied playing this session. No source that says that Wray was on this session claims to have been present. Anyone could have played this riff. It's not the distinctive Eddie Van Halen solo in Michael Jackson's "Beat It!" I can't imagine what Wray would have been doing in Los Angeles or in British Columbia where Terry Jacks worked, to play a session in the early 1970s. Wray was from the southeast. I suppose he was traveling around and they could have met up. Anyone locating firsthand information anout Wray's involvement (or not) in "Seasons in the Sun" will please edit this article accordingly. I'm skeptical that Link played on this. Swinterich (talk) 02:40, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Connecting this music to westlife is unfair. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.32.81.85 (talk) 04:18, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The "History" part is out of subject : it is actually about

orzel, 2009-05-15 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.225.154.2 (talk) 19:02, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

But

Le Moribond redirects here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.173.122.171 (talk) 10:05, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply

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Even beyond the lack of citations, many of the individual facts here are just flat out wrong. I've corrected a few of them and will source those changes in a day or two. McKuen recorded the first English version of his translation, and the Kingston trio was second, using McKuen's exact lyrics. Jacks' alterations were apparently done without McKuen's consent, though there was no legal action. The first single record release was by the Kingstons, Capitol Master 5166 in April, 1964. Sensei48 (talk) 08:09, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Can anyone expand on how Shabba Ranks and Krystel's Twice My Age "used" this song? I know that tune well, and I can't spot a link. 81.91.3.6 (talk) 10:26, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In any event, it is neither a version nor parody of this song. Removed.Sensei48 (talk) 15:19, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

--Pretty easy explanation here... they used the melody. When Krystel sings the chorus it's the identical melody to the chorus of seasons in the sun. I noticed it immediately the first time I heard twice my age.-- — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.250.11.123 (talk) 16:41, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Wouldn't Jacks' (Jacks possessive) be more appropriate than Jacks's? Rklawton (talk) 04:32, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I would think so, but Wiki discussions seem to trend in the opposite direction: [1]. Sensei48 (talk) 04:42, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, OK. Thanks for that. Rklawton (talk) 14:09, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the paragraph concerning the CNN Poll because this text isn't even found in the source

"modern criticism has tended to be more critical of Jacks's overly sentimentalized rewriting of the original song. Jacks's version is commonly held up as an example of bad music"Dkspartan1835 (talk) 07:20, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• I restored the text because it most assuredly is in the cited source. The passage is an appropriate paraphrase, not a direct quotation.Sensei48 (talk) 22:06, 17 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It is indeed sentimental, as has often been pointed out. I used to think the implied protagonist was a rock star who knew he would soon join the 27 Club or the like, although moribund young rockers of that kind rarely *know* they are heading for disaster. The ploy of blurring the lines between the performer as a r/l guy and the role character in the lyrics is a familiar one, of course, in pop and r'n'b lyrics (Rihanna, anyone?). Strausszek (talk) 08:18, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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With rare exceptions, song lyrics are copyrighted and we cannot include them simply because we want to include them. Brief quotations and, if used for analysis are covered by fair use. However, the analysis and interpretation we had was all original research: someone added their interpretation of the lyrics and their comparisons of the various versions.

If anyone can find sources and would care to work on a sourced interpretation of this bizarre little chestnut and/or a sourced comparison of the various versions, have at it. - SummerPhD^v2.0 02:50, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]