{"id":3343,"date":"2023-12-28T09:13:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T20:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2023-12-28T09:13:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T20:13:25","slug":"longing-for-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3343","title":{"rendered":"Longing For Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On December 28th, 1967, the &#8220;Bee Gees&#8221; topped the German singles chart with their song &#8220;Massachusetts.&#8221; The track had previously reached number 1 in the UK in October and marked the first of the group&#8217;s five UK number 1 hits. Notably, &#8220;Massachusetts&#8221; also served as the first single on which Robin Gibb sang the lead vocals.<br><br>In this poignant song, the singer expresses a longing to return to Massachusetts, a state located in the northeastern United States. Interestingly, the Bee Gees had never actually been to Massachusetts when they recorded the song; they were simply captivated by the sound of its name. Unfortunately, the memories associated with this time became bittersweet for Robin Gibb. On November 5th, while &#8220;Massachusetts&#8221; still held the number 1 spot, he was involved in a train crash that claimed the lives of 49 people, marking one of Britain&#8217;s most devastating rail disasters.<br><br>&#8220;Massachusetts&#8221; also reached the number 1 spot in numerous other countries. Notably, the Bee Gees became the first non-Japanese act to top the Japanese singles chart when &#8220;Massachusetts&#8221; spent a week at number one in April 1968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bee Gees Massachusetts 1967\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xk9bmuncB4Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 28th, 1967, the &#8220;Bee Gees&#8221; topped the German singles chart with their song &#8220;Massachusetts.&#8221; The track had previously reached number 1 in the UK in October and marked the first of the group&#8217;s five UK number 1 hits. Notably, &#8220;Massachusetts&#8221; also served as the first single on which Robin Gibb sang the lead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[215],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-bee-gees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3344,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions\/3344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}