Bee Gees - New York Mining Disaster 1941

[@BlazeDuskdreamer]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, for doing this one Cozy and doing it so well. I've always found this song haunting and all the more beautiful of a song for how haunting its tribute to the dangers of working as a miner.. Combined with the excellent old footage you found - well, excellent job, Cozy. Beautifully done. It was released when I was nine and despite living in upstate New York with no talk of such a disaster less than 20 years before my birth, I was convinced of its authencity. Now with the internet at my fingertips, I checked. The title was originally simply Have You Seen my Wife, Mr. Jones and a producer changed it to New York Mining Disaster 1941 to make it appeal to Americans. Well, that worked. But its haunting tribute is real. Apparently inspired by an actual mining disaster in Wales in 1966.

[@cozyhollow]

Blaze, your use Wikipedia is excellent; no worries, I use it myself to research the songs I use in my videos. The mining footage I used was from the Westray documentary; a coal mining disaster in Nova Scotia on May 9, 1992. However, some of the b/w mining footage used in the documentary itself is not from the Westray disaster. In fact, at the beginning of my video, as the men are walking into the mine, the vehicles in the background appear to be 1930s or 1940s.

[@BlazeDuskdreamer]

@@cozyhollow I'm a research geek that loves searching the internet. I enjoy digging deep. Best thing about the intenet is having a world of information right at our fingertipsl Literally. Could we have ever dreamed it when we were kids and encylopdieas were the best we had. I haunted libraries in my youth. Always craving info. I vaguely remembered those linear notes when I read that but had long forgotten them. I started a music play list upon letitng the cable go and another mining favorite is Jimmy Dean's BIg Bad John in 1961 (on said play list, which is how I found you searching for songs). That's the opposite. I assumed that was fiction until recently. That song always made my eyes tear up. The thought of that man sacrificing himself to save neighbors who didn't even know him well yet as he was new to town. Now I find out from the internet that it was based on a real hero. I'm just crying. It only makes it all the more poignant. These men who take on the dangerous jobs so we lead more comfortable lives deserve such recognition. o7 to them all. I suppose I'm b!ased. Both my grandfathers were ded from workplace accidents before I was born. One worked on the railroads and got h!t by a train. The other was a dairy farmer who got k!cked in the head by a cow. On that side, I also lost an uncle in the 1920s when you had to crank up the motors on motor vehicles. He was cr@nking up the tractor and the cr@nk flew off and h!t him in the head. He felt woozy and went in to lie down but the i!jury was more serious than he thought. He went to sleep and never woke up again.

[@lengabella6964]

So proud of my Uncles and Grandpa that were coal miners in Coupon Pennsylvania

[@georgefleblanc1]

Coalminers Daughter Loretta Lynn Dad had a flame on his helmet. She (Loretta Lynn) didn't meet her husband till after WWii her then boy friend had a jeep & he didn't go to N.Y. to work in a Coal Mine there He was in Kentucky with a Jeep. 🏖☎📞it's 2022a.d. now.