Terry Jacks

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Terry Jacks, 1974

Terry Jacks (born March 29, 1944 in Winnipeg , Manitoba ) is a Canadian singer and record producer .

biography

In 1968 he founded The Poppy Family with his future wife Susan Pesklevits (* 1948), from whom he divorced in 1973, which also separated in 1973. In 1969, with Which Way You Goin 'Billy? a number one hit in Canada and a number two hit on the US charts. Jacks then worked independently and worked on an album by the Beach Boys in 1972 , for which he proposed an English version of the 1961 song Le Moribond by Belgian singer Jacques Brel as Seasons in the Sun.

In 1963, lyricist Rod McKuen had translated this song into English and the Kingston Trio had recorded it. The title did not sell very well and did not make it into the US charts, but Jacks remembered it. After the Beach Boys refused to include the song on the album, Jacks rewrote it in part and published it himself in 1973. Seasons in the Sun made it to the top of the charts in the USA, Great Britain and Canada and sold millions of copies worldwide ; in the US it stayed in the charts for 15 weeks and in Canada for 17 weeks. The song also reached number one in the charts in Germany , Austria and Switzerland in German-speaking countries . The album Seasons in the Sun was far less commercially successful, it only reached number 81 in the US album charts .

Seasons in the Sun is the story of a dying young man who says goodbye to his neighbors and friends. While McKuen had tried to stay as close as possible to Brel's original, Jacks, to McKuen's displeasure, made some changes in the last stanza ( “and every time that I was down ...” ), which made the original serious ( “you cheated lots of times but then ... “ ) were detrimental, but certainly not to his disadvantage in terms of sales.

In 1973 Jacks met Jacques Brel. He suggested another recording, namely If You Go Away (Brel-Original: Ne me quitte pas ), the English text was also written by Rod McKuen, but this was only a minor success in the USA, in Great Britain the title reached number 8 in the singles charts . He lost another hit and his version of rock'n'roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life) , with which Kevin Johnson was successful in 1973, only hit the US charts for a week. Terry Jack's Seasons in the Sun therefore belongs to the category of one-hit wonders .

Jacks later became involved in Canada and the USA as an activist for the environmental protection organization Environmental Watch.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Seasons in the Sun
  DE 45 07/15/1974 (4 weeks)
  US 81 March 16, 1974 (9 weeks)
Singles
Seasons in the Sun
  DE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 04/01/1974 (25 weeks)
  AT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 04/15/1974 (20 weeks)
  CH 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 04/03/1974 (23 weeks)
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
gold
gold
03/23/1974 (12 weeks)
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
gold
gold
01/12/1974 (21 weeks)
If you go away
  DE 24 07/22/1974 (10 weeks)
  AT 17th 08/15/1974 (8 weeks)
  UK 8th 06/29/1974 (9 weeks)
  US 68 06/08/1974 (5 weeks)
Rock 'n' Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)
  US 97 07/12/1974 (1 week)

Albums

  • 1973: Seasons in the Sun
  • 1975: Y 'Don't Fight the Sea
  • 1983: Pulse
  • 1987: Just Like That

Compilations

  • 1976: The World of Terry Jacks and the Poppy Family (with The Poppy Family)
  • 1982: Into the Past… Terry Jack's Greatest Hits
  • 1989: … Into the Past - Terry Jack's Greatest Hits

Singles

  • 1970: I'm Gonna Capture You
  • 1972: Concrete Sea
  • 1972: I'm Gonna Love You Too
  • 1973: Seasons in the Sun
  • 1973: In the Gardens of Time (Seasons in the Sun)
  • 1974: If You Go Away
  • 1974: A Good Thing Lost (with The Poppy Family)
  • 1974: Rock and Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)
  • 1975: Christina
  • 1975: Holly
  • 1976: In My Father's Footsteps
  • 1983: You Fooled Me

swell

  1. ^ Frank Laufenberg, Ingrid Hake: Rock and Pop Lexicon. Vol. 1: ABBA - Kay Kyser . Düsseldorf, Vienna: Econ Verlag, 1994, pp. 746f
  2. ↑ US catalog number Capitol 5166
  3. ↑ compare: Joel Whitburn: Top Pop Singles 1955–1993 ; Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 333
  4. ↑ US catalog number 45432 Bell
  5. ^ Günter Ehnert (Ed.): Hit balance sheet. German Chart Singles 1956–1980 ; Hamburg: Taurus Press, 1990, p. 105
  6. ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Albums 1955-1996 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1996, p. 372
  7. ↑ US catalog number Bell Bell 45467
  8. ↑ For the British chart positions see: Stephen Nugent, Anne Fowler, Pete Fowler: Chart Log of American / British Top 20 Hits, 1955–1974 ; in: Charlie Gillett, Simon Frith (Eds.): Rock File 4 ; Frogmore, St. Albans: Panther Books, 1976, p. 203
  9. ↑ US catalog number Bell 45606
  10. ↑ For the Billboard chart placements compare: Joel Whitburn: Top Pop Singles 1955–1993 ; Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 295
  11. ↑ Chart sources albums: DE US
  12. ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
  13. ↑ Chart sources: DE, AT, CH, US UK
  14. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK US

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personal data
SURNAME Jacks, Terry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian singer and record producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Manitoba, Canada