PRIEST, Ep. 2

Bee Gees: “I Started a Joke” (Idea LP, 1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZxGwThiNQo

@19:55, Woo-joo begins singing the lyrics to his mom. Lyrics in first YT comment. (more)

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    In episode 2 at about 19:30, possessed little knifing victim Woo-joo begins speaking to his mother in the hospital:

    “Thanks to you I feel like a new person. Thank you so much for being born again. There’s no limit to man’s greed. We see what we start [want?] to see. Fireflies in the fire, and they only live a day, want to see what they desire.”

    Mom replies that he is not Woo-joo. He then starts singing “I Started a Joke.”

    I wondered if his words were quotations from literary works, but did not find anything.

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    Thanks @pakalanapikake Unfortunately this video is not made available in my part of the world. I did watch another HQ version of it with Robin Gibb, 1968, though. Still sounds so good. 😃

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      This live version in black and white from about ’68 by the looks of it gives the lyrics, in case the one you saw didn’t have them:

      Bee Gees: “I Started a Joke” live
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSFF5PveANo

      Another oldie but goodie from the Brothers Gibb:

      Bee Gees: “New York Mining Disaster 1941” (live, German TV program Beat-Club, 20 May 1967)
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQHuNHsce6E

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Mining_Disaster_1941#Background_and_writing

      Written after the Aberfan mining disaster in Wales in 1966; according to Robin Gibb, there was a mine accident in New York in 1939, but I could not find a record of it online.

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        Ooh, these are Bee Gee’s songs that I know and like very much!! Thanks!

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          @growingbeautifully, I’ve mellowed out a lot since my heavy metal, punk rock, New Wave, and Southern rock days, and now can appreciate disco. The DJ who was on the air ahead of me used to wear a “Disco Sucks” t-shirt, which gives a sense of the polarization that existed at my college FM radio station back in the day. LOL. 😉

          The Bee Gees reinvented themselves during the disco era with their OST for SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER. One of the most beautiful pieces Barry and Robin Gibb composed didn’t actually make it into the movie. “Emotion” is sublimely soothing.
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_(Samantha_Sang_song)

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Sang

          Samantha Sang (Barry Gibb (falsetto harmony & backing vocals): “Emotion” (1977) promotional video
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPwpVJ-eIgg

          The promo video is pre-MTV, which didn’t launch until 1981. Her hairstyle, makeup, and satin threads are giving me flashbacks to NYC’s infamous Studio 54 during the days of Disco Madness. 😉

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            @pakalanapikake Thanks! I remember Samantha Sang too and “Emotion”. As kids we’d have dance parties and those Saturday Night Fever songs got us on the floor. The slower pieces gave couples the excuse to slow-dance Heheheh! 😉

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            Re: @growingbeautifully December 3, 2018 at 2:01 PM

            Glad to find another fan of the song. 😉

            As I was listening to “Emotion,” I was reminded of the following huge hit in the US:

            Melissa Manchester: “Midnight Blue” (live on MIDNIGHT SPECIAL)
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkbhjtA5QT0

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            @pakalanapikake At the risk of being sucked into listening to all those oldies but goodies, I clicked the link and couldn’t stop smiling. I went on to listen to a bit of Melissa Manchester with Barry Manilow. I was crazy about his songs and even had a few of his albums on the original vinyl records. Going into the songs of my youth is going to be a very deep rabbit hole!!! Wish I had time for that and everything else. 😆

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