The Bee Gees - Mr. Jones - New York Mining Disaster 1941

The Bee Gees. A sad story that isn't quite real and yet so very real.

[@bernardinoaguirre229]

If you're listening to this masterpiece in 2023, you're a legend!!!

[@evaru9329]

September 2023

[@SchoenchenFremder]

01102023

[@debbiesims138]

Oct 14, 2023. I've loved this song since it originally came out. Yes, I'm that old.

[@Starfire-25]

November 1st an absolute masterpiece. That's all.

[@dianebuzek723]

11-23-2023❤

[@lordchickenhawk]

Bloody top edit Erica... downloaded. Worked in mining and smelting most of my life as a fitter and turner. Actually, I'm out on high lead as I type. I was near killed in an industrial 3 years ago, But I still have all my body parts at 60 and they all still work. My dad lost a knee cap and a finger to the trade, so could be worse. Just 7 years left to go.

[@heisnamnaren4680]

This song has been haunting my ears for the last forty years or more.

[@lankyvinny6922]

more then 40 this song realeased in 1967

[@ifindustomcat2566]

I lked the sound of the line 'Have you seen my wife' and searched for the meaning, the background behind the song. Now I´m shocked! I cannot listen without crying. Very thankfull for given this to us, you and at once the immortal BeeGees.

[@pam1574]

I live in WV coal country. Many of my school friend’s fathers died in the Farmington Coal Mine disaster in November, 1968. I was in the 8th grade. There was an announcement over the intercom system for a list of kids to go to the office. I’ll never forget that day for as long as I live. Heartbreaking 💔

[@ikawlangsapatna1260]

im sorry to hear that

[@paxvet]

Losing their dads that way and hearing their names over the intercom. Unimaginably sad..

[@pam1574]

@@paxvet Omg, it truly was. My dad was a coal miner also (but worked in a different mine). Naturally, it shook me to the core hearing about my classmates fathers. 😔

[@paxvet]

@@pam1574 I have only the utmost respect. God bless.

[@pam1574]

@@paxvet 🤗

[@kamotengblager5553]

anyone still listening to this 2021

[@vanessamoosary9284]

Yes

[@valsamante342]

Yes..for me this is one great song of the lifetime

[@joefontana8501]

I never Will stop listening.

[@Slytherin88]

Anyone who loves music will always be listening and / or taking notes 🙂

[@jamesrichardson771]

Yes💥 listening and playing it 🎶🎸

[@darykinnaman2319]

Miners have lost their lives in terrible accidents. Although this song is not about a particular event it is still haunting.

[@leahelam6073]

That song tears at my heart. I never knew any miners but had a distant relative who suffered mining injury and suffered for years before merciful death. I know that his wife had 5 more children after he was paralyzed from the neck down. It's a hard, hard life.

[@paulglass8228]

I work in the minning industry and on the 5th of April 2010 we here in WV lost 29 souls that I went to school with or knew them in some way. Love this song and love the minners who still get up in the morning and do their thing. Precious people trust me I know.

[@kichigan1]

Precios people.

[@yahndarkwood]

"Don't go talking too loud you'll cause a landslide, Mr Jones" . Very topical .

[@mattanderson6336]

Hard to believe they started here and ended up at Saturday Night Fever.

[@Coowallsky]

They went beyond Saturday Night Fever.

[@valdrickleonel1757]

2020.such a great melody

[@robertglennienz]

Respect for the Bee Gees writing this. On 19 November 2010 Pike River coal mine on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island exploded. 29 men were trapped. Another explosion on the 24th killed them. I think of them every time this song plays.

[@stebunn]

I believe this song was from the Bee Gees first album. I liked the album a lot and played the hell out of it.

[@juliusnepos6013]

Yeah

[@jayrhymes345]

nope

[@КарповВалерий-ъ8б]

It was appallingly!The photographs have pierced my heart…This is a good working.I was crying during my oversight your clip.We have a good neighbours-Vladimir and Alla.He worked as a miner underground for 30 years in the mine of Lugunsk.Now he is pensioner.He was retired when he was 60.Our daughters are good friends.Both of them have a higher education.I was born in USSR,I am 65 years old.My name is Irina.Thank you very much!Good luck,dear Erica Elizabeth! 18 of May 2018.

[@EricaElizabethRavenwood]

I know it is late to reply, but I read this just the other day. Your story touched my heart. As all good stories should. I'm sorry for the loses you family and friends endured. Know that I feel and cry when I make a video also. I choose my subject matter because it touches me. Often I'm making a video through tears. Especially since I have to watch the footage many times and have to experience it's meaning. Al my best to you and your's.

[@floatsting20]

You wonder what the hell are people bitching about these days

[@bigtbird8809]

Dont like bee gees really but this is a masterpiece

[@indy_go_blue6048]

I totally loved the Bee Gees from the first time I heard this until Barry got his voice stuck on falsetto in the late '70s. They still did some good songs, but the richness of his earlier voice, I missed too much.

[@leamc6321]

Great song really touches the heart

[@techknowsimply]

Listened it in late 70s ,80s Now I know there is a meaning ..

[@stavrostheboss3491]

My dad just introduced me to this in 2024 at 34 years of age

[@WBCRO]

This song was on a compilation album my eldest brother bought sometime in the Sixties. I was just a tot but I knew how to use the record player and would sneak in and play that album. It’s a fuzzy memory but this song has never left me.

[@maneeshsharma9860]

Truly heart rendering... My prayers for all those who faced the US mining tragedy in 1941 🙏🙏😔

[@Psychedlia98]

There was no tragedy in 1941, but 1939, and Robb chose New York becuase he thought it sounded glamorous, and it is belived the song was inspired by the welsh mining disaster in the 60s

[@maneeshsharma9860]

@Psychedlia98 thank you for the update.

[@johnderekpanganiban4670]

Anyone in 2019??

[@donaldcat]

JD Panganiban hi from 2025

[@jaimeiniguez1852]

Me!!!!!

[@dereklucero7832]

JD Panganiban I grew up on the pre disco bee gees.... I wa born in 71 but my dad was stuck in the 60’s.... I love The Bee Gees!

[@robinleonard8862]

2020

[@bartalinigibb]

Great Bee Gees Masterpiece.

[@nicholasdavies6264]

Don't we miss these guys!

[@USNVA-yn6cp]

Wow!!!! this is fantatstic!!!

[@malcolmlowe3839]

great song, superb

[@cyberclown9923]

Absolutely Brilliant.

[@norman7367]

8th March 2021 still Beautiful song

[@NarutoUzumaki-k9b]

2023 still listening this song

[@georgefleblanc1]

great song I love it and the pictures and video !

[@mbpayot176]

We ALL are so engrossed with our little selves...

[@Robgti180]

Listening on March 2021.

[@haribuchari4144]

Apresiasi sekali dengan pilihan lagu lagunya.

[@GROOVAHOL]

Anyone else come here cause of Max Becks new video?

[@witherspore16]

Yesss

[@indy_go_blue6048]

Who?

[@joekavanagh7171]

Who?

[@aljundating1574]

It's appropriate for COVID-19 pandemic.

[@ralfrygusiak7601]

It is very sad.

[@belindageilenkirchen3267]

Habe dieses Lied das erste mal im Radio gehört WDR 4 dachte erst das wären die Beatles 📔🙈

[@marliesrabisch784]

Ich habe es 1967 oder 1968 das erste Mal gehört und war ergriffen.

[@fatimamendes517]

1941... The year changed USA history.

[@micheleSO13PA]

As 2020 will change the world's history! Some lines in the lyrics relevant!

[@BEEGEESMIAMOR]

Between 13 and 16 March 1967, BEE GEES recorded IBC Studios, London 50th Anniversary of tha first Single of BEE GEES in the United States Released April 14, 1967 Composers: ROBIN y BARRY GIBB(my love) ......................................................... Entre el 13 y 16 de marzo de 1967, BEE GEES grabó IBC Estudios, Londres. 50 aniversario del primer single de BEE GEES en Los Estados Unidos liberado el 14 de abril de 1967 -Compositores: ROBIN y BARRY GIBB(mi amor)

[@paulosterwalder5650]

I like the song , although the Bee Gees are not my taste . But this song is good .

[@EricaElizabethRavenwood]

I'm in the "disco sucks" crowd myself, lol. But I like this song also. When I'm making a video I prefer it to have some kind of story. This one had a story.

[@createyourlifejk4359]

They are not my taste neither but they had a few nice songs but once they started singing even more like mosquitos and disco I think that was it .

[@joekavanagh7171]

I never liked their disco phase. I'm glad they reverted to type in the end.

[@kircheundortheiligenblut1179]

Danke für dieses schöne Video sehr schöne Musik

[@marliesrabisch784]

Schön und herzergreifend traurig.

[@silberlinie]

fine song

[@manuelbravo7749]

Excelente!!!!!!

[@tubx3805]

Upon first hearing this song and without looking into its background, I thought this song was about a common guy whose wife is having an affair with an affluent guy ("Mr. Jones"). This common guy is talking about himself on the outside looking in and asking/wondering whether Mr. Jones has seen his wife. This common guy is also saying to Mr. Jones not to talk too loud or brag about the affair because the talk could cause a landslide. 😄

[@lordchickenhawk]

Inspired art has always been able to be re-interpreted/had multiple meanings. Pretty reasonable parallels in your perception of the meaning, I'd rather face industrial destruction than go through another diviorce...

[@carmenpazsaavedrafernandez5971]

Bee Gees great

[@giuseppedalcanto255]

Really sublime

[@garybardwell7117]

VERY GREAT UNIQUE ROCK SONG...

[@ahmedhadda3727]

Schekspeare's 20 th century hymnes

[@jaypollmanalad6235]

2020 but this song is so lit

[@besitzervoneinkonto6497]

Dankeschön für's Video

[@cartermorez2392]

Music Geniuses!

[@isaacyakou256]

So sad.

[@deniseanklesaria9935]

Heartstopper.

[@MBrown-qn4qo]

Very Simon n Garfunkel-esque

[@carlocavallo9533]

Bellissima😥

[@daviddeutschland6123]

Robin had a croocked tooth!

[@patrickmoran687]

I grew up in a coal mining community in Western PA in the 1950’s. I get it.

[@sudeshnadebnath8489]

Excellent

[@TheBrunosaurus]

super!

[@richardgottheil997]

from Richard gottheil MR. JONES

[@nomoreturningaway1459]

Immortal tune

[@richardgottheil997]

FROM Richard gottheil Mr. jones

[@reinaldomateluna3871]

Son muy buenos

[@paolobergamo1838]

Capolavoro

[@hathor1985]

are the Bee Gees predicting the find of the sarcophagus of the mysterious Tisul Princess in 1969 ?

[@StevenGuegens-ex7by]

And I am very musically inclined for I can TELL from the first line who it is but All this time I thought this was the BEATLES how WRONG was I 💯 percent

[@rachilletaer8981]

I want to know what love is

[@tyronsmith7938]

NECRO BRINGS ME HERE

[@ninasauermann7095]

Me in 2020...

[@akudanmuzik6401]

Have u seen her?????

[@edbriley6397]

Casey Kasem in 1978 that the song was 100% fiction? Is it Fiction or not? The Bee Gee's thought it was?

[@whyareyoulikethis2819]

The song was fiction, it just happens to line up to real life events of the past quite well

[@mardoozcyamz9445]

Who is Mr Jones?

[@malcolmedwards462]

mem zter hes a Welsh miner.

[@paulglass8228]

Mr jones was a man trapped in the mine with them and the young man was showing him a picture of his wife.

[@ahmedhadda3727]

BEDFORD CITY

[@kiliwsaki]

😢😢

[@louismattajr9040]

One can participate, Despite being degenerate.

[@tomforsythe7024]

How can you look at a photo in a collapsed mine? Wouldn't it be too dark?

[@EricaElizabethRavenwood]

Perhaps, but in story telling the teller often has to take poetic license. :)

[@kristapohl3492]

I the fuck am

[@henryrodriguez2354]

La frase q nombra a Mr Jones es copia del tema " You like me too much" de The Beatles q compuso Georhe Harrison.

[@srmaozen4720]

.

[@maximesfez4645]

Toujours le peuple qui est sacrifié

[@DouglasGreenough-gt9fp]

👽

[@JimmyV007]

nope 2020

[@NarutoUzumaki-k9b]

2023 still listening this song

[@richardgottheil997]

from Richard gottheil MR. JONES

[@richardgottheil997]

from Richard gottheil Mr. jones

[@richardgottheil997]

from Richard gottheil MR. JONES

[@richardgottheil997]

from Richard gottheil Mr. JONES