Seasons In The Sun

This song brings back a memory from my elementary school days. Two girls did a lovely choreographed "skit" to this song for a talent show. I can still see them. It was pretty good and imaginative choreography for two grade school girls!

In primary school about 5 of us were to perform this song. One day in rehearsal as soon as the singers had finished the rest of us quickly sang
"We had joy
We had fun
We had knickers* on the run
But the fun never last
'cause the knickers were too fast"
Needless to say it was an all boys school. *Panties.

I've always liked Seasons in the Sun....at least it is more upbeat in tempo than "The Christmas Shoes" which I positively WILL NOT listen to.

to the tune of this song, Newcastle United fans sometimes (not so much now but a few years ago) sing ' we had joy we had fun we had Sund'land on the run, but the joy didnt last cos the B******s ran too fast.

I dedicate this song, on behalf of my friend Mr. Rajdeep Banerjee to Anni, who after spending some beautiful moments with him left for her heavenly abode, on 23/08/2011 at 7:10 AM.

May Her Soul Rest In Peace !!

35 years -- what a difference?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7J3Tm0jo2w

oh jesus wept...what a mess of a song this self-consciously maudlin tripe is. If i wanna listen to something that will make me teary i'll get out the old leonard cohen, but this is the last word in awlfulness. The joke is on me, however, because i am a english teacher in china and the dear little chinese kiddies have picked this travesty of a song as the one they want to learn !

As I was growing up my brother and 3 sisters used to listen to this song and it became one of my favorites when I was in the sixth grade. When I first heard it I cried but very beautiful melody. I never understood the history of this song when I first heard it and now it brings back memories of my younger days. My brother and sister used cassette tapes and record this song from radio station (KNOM Radio). Back then (1970's) in Rural Alaska we were into music also. We used to get excited listening to American Top 40, good old days and young at heart. Dora Christine Moore - Emmonak, Alaska

Terry's wife did a much better song....called "Which Way You Going Billy"....

This song touches me deeply somehow. Somewhere I read that it was based on a 17th century French ballad. If there is someone who knows more about this, please let me know.

I was 14 years old, home sick with the flu. The first time I heard it on the radio over and over. I fell in love with it! No, I wasn't dying it just felt like it. As,I was home alone feeling sorry for myself. This was the beginning of Rock-n-Roll for me.

Thanks for all the great info on the song. This was one of my favorite songs when I was growing up, I never realized the history behind it. Pretty cool!

"Put the bone in", eh? I think her puppy-dog was the last thing on her mind.

And to John in Mansfield, TX? This song reminds of a story. There was an INCREDIBLY bad performance of "The Diary of Anne Frank" being done and if you're familiar with the show (or the story) at the very end when the Germans come pounding on the door. Someone from the audience yelled out, "She's in the attic!!!!". 'nuff said.

What a sad song. Even more poignant knowing that my man Kurt covered it. If you see this performance on the "With The Lights Out" box set is sure is a fitting and sad end to the DVD...but that was Kurt....R.I.P Brother!!

Love this song. It was a favorite song that me and my best friend loved. I am now 46 and when we were 15 years old he died. Now when ever I hear this song I can only think of him and cry.

I see that the original composer died shortly after the release of the song. From a "quiet six-year battle against cancer." I say he heard what
Terry Jacks did to his song.

On an early summer morning, six years ago, my father decided to take my twin sister and I on a field trip through the beautiful mountains in Lebanon. We were cruising in the car and we have just picked up some fast sweet breakfast to eat during our trip known as knefe that is sweet crust with cheese.

As we were driving through our sightseeing trip a song has just started to play and all of the sudden my father calmly pulled over on the edge of the road where everything was clear, the skies were blue and you can feel the beautiful wind breeze, suddenly nothing seemed to have fit the moment as much as the song as it was playing.

My sister and I knew that the song is what made the difference, we knew that this song is what made my father pull over so he can live minutes of harmony with himself and share it with us, a moment which I will never forget with us.
I heard the song and just after it finished my dad sat up straight put the gear on "D" and quietly said " I have always loved this song but it makes me sad"

Last year I lost a brother, and my father lost a son. Suddenly this inexplicable moment which I never forgot makes sense. This moment was always on my mind, as I have always questioned myself why do I remember this incident? Why is it always the first thing that comes back to my mind when I see a mountain or eat knefe or even look at my father? Now it all makes sense. Sometimes GOD talks to us in different ways, that day GOD talked to me in the most insightful way, now when I think of my brother I see mountains, I taste the sweet knefe, I feel the breeze on my skin, I smell the mist of trees and I hear a beautiful song. His memory engages all of me and touches me in ways I never thought was possible.

The song was: Seasons in the sun.

RIP my angle and brother : Ghassan Daoud (13/10/1978-02/06/2007)

Chirine Daoud.

Wasn't this song the basis of an old movie about an unconventional motorcycle couple who end up parents right before the woman finds out she has cancer and then dies? I can't remember the name of the movie but it was said this movie as based around this song. Anyone who can tell me and name the movie - I would appreciate.

I was 15 in 1974,the year this song was a hit.
After hearing this song about four or five times,I was telling myself"PULL THE DAMNED PLUG ALREADY!!".

This song is a real chuckle a minute isn't it?

Enough to make you want to Roll a Seven and check out

Hey, why did my post come up twice? Sorry I'm new at this. Gerry, thanks for the utube tip. I also just found that the Soul Asylum did a cover of "Put the Bone In"!

On the flip side: "Put the bone in she asked him at the store, my doggies been hit by a carrrr....." It was the most awful song ever, but me and my sister used to sing it all the time and I still will say that one line now and again. But does anyone else remember the rest? Is it anywhere to hear it again? I'd love a good laugh!

G'day Joan, this maybe it? Terry Jacks - Put The Bone In , i just googled it.Then typed it into utube and got this.

http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=qvWNBK27nPQ&feature=related

Cheers Gerry 27.12.2007

This was one of my favorite songs. I had the 45. I really liked side b. Does anyone remember what the song was? It was about a dog and a bone.
-Joan, Marysville, OH

Nirvana did a version of this song.

great song in 1974.I remember it well.11/9/07

Yes true it was No.1 between Mar. 2 - Mar. 22 1974, although sorry i should of stated more clearly, i was referring to the year 1974 overall. There were approx' 35 songs that went to number one that year with Billboard Top 100 - 1974
01. was The Way We Were » Barbra Streisand overall. cheers

Not true...the song was number one for three weeks in 1974 but then dropped down the charts.

Not true...it was number one for three weeks but then dropped down.

The Billboard Hot 100 For 1974 No.2 Song in the USA =
Terry Jacks
Seasons In The Sun !

True this may song may move rich college kid's but i can tell you it also moved a kid that grew up at the other end of town. 12 September 2007.

It makes sense that Cobain would've covered this song. I picture the narrator/persona of this song as a rich college kid who feels sorry for him/her self while reading "The Bell Jar" and thinks that the movie "Sophie's Choice" was one of the greatest tragedies ever made. Such sentimental tripe, all of them!

We played this (along with a Polish Mazurka) at my grandfather's funeral. It was a song he liked; as well, the lyrics were fitting. ACS

Too much wine,too much song! Ah what ever i'll crack open a V.B....... cheers!

G'day Tiger, "Whatever What" ?

"it's hard to die"... whatever! it's a beautiful song and i love it...

This songs takes me back to the seventies when i was a young kid, and i liked it then quite a lot! I think they used to play this in music class at primary school where we would sit on the floor and stare up to the small radio speaker on the wall and we would all look forward to singing along to songs like this classic and others like Proud Mary and Penny Lane. As i recall it was broadcaster on ABC radio in the afternoons and it would go for an hour or so. As an 8 year old in 1975 my first album i brought was Patsy Biscoe nursery rymes and had my favorite song at the time Puff the Magic Dragon inwhich was also a sad song as is the beautiful Seasons in the Sun. My next album i brought was the following year Ripper 76 inwhich had all the top 40 songs in Australia at the time, so i really come of age with my music,if not only for the fact the front cover had a girls bum with with a large tear in her shorts, my sister gave away the album in the last 70=s to a frind i think, and only a few months back brought the album of a work friend whom over heard i was searching for it and he had it gathering dust. Sorry i know i've rambled on (1st time i've posted a comment] but i'll just finish up with over the years i've been moved greatly by sad songs that have touched a cord with me, though i've never felt depressed or anything- these types of brilliant sentimental songs actually make me feel overwelmed with a sence of intoxication of contentment. Thanks to artists like Terry Jacks !! let me know what else you think about your perspective on happy/sad songs and how you've interpreted them ? cheers Gerry

The Poppy Family wasn?t really a duo. Susan Jacks did all the vocals, even the background vocals, except for one or two duets with Terry. The Beach Boys never finished the recording of Seasons in the Sun and so it was never released. The background vocals were written by Al Jardine of the Beach Boys and Susan. It was recorded by Terry and Susan, with Susan involved in the production as she had always been, before she left the marriage in 1973 and it was Susan who convinced him to record and release the song himself. There is so much crap out there about how things really happened. I was a friend of Susan?s and I find it amazing how much total credit is given to Terry for both his own success and the success of the Poppy Family and yet very little is given to Susan. Terry rode on the coat tails of the popularity of Seasons in the Sun for years and basically had no success after that song and after Susan left the marriage. That?s not to say she was alone responsible for everything but she was certainly half of the team that brought success to both the Poppy Family and to Terry Jacks.

I'm a 37 year old beautiful person, who now hates computers! My Dad died in October, it's been more of a struggle than I ever could have imagined!!!

My dad was such an example of musical, imaginative, and copywritive style we just loved it.... He played with Johhny Cash originally, and was removed when discovered my dad was the only one who could pick... a guitar..... my dad quit music and went back to art.... and designed
original Canadian symbols.... One the sunrype sun sign.... 2. the Mohawk (of yamaha) later sold to another company .......My father was a great artist who chose an easy life over his artisty, just so he could play a guitar and make an average living at a sawmill in canada....

He died October 4th 2006 a poor man, but wealthy in talent, and a reputation that will never preceed him.....As his loved one I can honestly say, there will never be another , who has his (huge sense of humour,and talent wrapped in one)

I listened to Sesons in the sun, on you tube and bawled like a baby, it was my favorite song from the time I can remember....... I found it by accident on youtube when my kids brought it up, and thank you it was my favorite song and will continue to be!!!God Bless, and may life get simpler for us who choose to work like goats, and live like champions!

this was my dads favorite song when he was younger. he commited suicide in 1995, he was 33 years old.

justin, this song had nothing to do with kurt's suicide. i heard he had a happy chilldhood

my neice Tazmin Jacks is a lamebrain, and has only met her uncle Terry less than half a dozen times, yet she is now 16. She does not even know what good music is, and if her father had not told her about Kurt Cobain, she would not even know who he was, as she is too young to remember. I wish peoplle would stop putting words int mouths of babes! As far as the song is concerned, Terry thought that it was a good commercial(pop) venture

This song was also covered by Westlife, a group of males from the UK and Ireland.

I first heard this song on the radio in the summer of '69 when I was working my first job. It was a favorite of mine and I tried to find the record, but could not. It never took off in popularity until Terry Jacks performed it. I didn't like his performance as well as the one I heard that summer which was done by Tommy Sands. No one else I've talked to remembers hearing Tommy do this song and I've not been able to find out any further info about it. I would appreciate any feedback from anyone who can enlighten me further. I know I could not have dreamed up a song and performance five years before Terry Jacks, so for the sake of my sanity, I hope to find info soon.

This song wasn't a foreboding to Kurts suicide, he was just mesmerized by it as all of us were back when it was released. it was a great song, haunting back then but meaningful to us all I think.

Song's not that bad! Is a bit sentimental though, but I guess that's what it was supposed to be.

Does anyone remember that character that Al Franken used to play on SNL that always looked in the mirror at himself, trying to reassure himself that he was OK. That's the guy I picture listening to this song.

My Dad really loves this song.. it makes me sad

I consider this one the saddest song ever.

This song made Kurt Cobain cry as a child, and is often credited as one of the reasons for his childhood depression, which influenced him to commit suicide.

This has to be one of the 1st songs I can remember listening to on the radio as a kid. I was five when it was a hit and it influnced me into my love for music which has consumed a large chunk of my last 30 years

Wierd how my uncle influenced my favorite bands lead singer Kurt Cobain.

I,m with you Shell. This song is simply vile.Over sentimental tripe aimed at morons who "can relate to it". Adopted by football hooligans in the 70s 80s it held darker connotations" We had joy ,we had fun we had Chelsea on the run,,but the fun didnt last cos the bastards ran too fast" Not difficult to spot my preferred version!!

COVERS: Quite possibly the most covered song ever, covered by the likes of Nirvana, and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. I believe I also have a version done by Mamas and the Papas.

--Nirvan cover information: Drums and vocals- Kurt C, Bass: Dave G, Guitar: Krist N. This is a rare trade-off.

SUICIDE SONG?: The song has become an unofficial anthem for it, much the way Radiohead's song "Creep" is an unofficial anthem for Anorexics and bulimics. Please note that many suicidals feel its hard to die.

gotta say when i first heard this song on Australian radio,,,,,way back in the 70's ..i knew it would be an instant hit

This sond is a masterpiece and I can't hear this song often enough.

What a sad song! I always thought it was about someone dying, maybe of cancer or of anything, and he was saying good-bye to his loved ones.

doesnt Cat Stevens sing it as well?

Nirvana made a cover in this one, in the dvd of the box set comes the video in a studio in Rio de Janeiro...

i can see why some people thought of this song as a suicide song. " Goodbye ny friend its hard to die ". I like the alternate last verse its more real.

Makes me want to cut my ears off. I won't because I'd still be able to hear it AND I'd look even funnier than I do now.

A video of Nirvana covering the song in studio will be on the new 'With the lights out' box set.
Brel and Nirvana... Could you ask for more?

I have been searching for the Terry Jacks version of Seasons In The Sun,could you help a friend of mine as been trying to find it to buy for his wife

Sad to say but an awful cover of this song made UK No.1 for Irish boyband WestLife in December 1999 - not a patch on Jacks' version

This song was also the first single EVER bought by a young Kurt Cobain. Some thought that this was a foreboding to Kurt's own suicide (since some at the time believed that Seasons in the Sun was about suicide).

wonderful information.

Season's in the Sun was No. 1 on billboard two separate times. One of the few songs ever to do that.