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SOTD for Friday, February 10, 2012
"New York Mining Disaster 1941" was the first song to be released by the Bee Gees in the United States (released 1967), and their first song to hit the charts in the US[1] or UK. At the time, rumours circulated that the Bee Gees were the Beatles recording under a pseudonym (the Bee Gees' name was supposedly code for "Beatles Group"), in part because the record referenced NEMS Enterprises (Brian Epstein's management agency, which had just been joined by Bee Gees' manager Robert Stigwood).

Vince Melouney not shown in this picture sleeve because Colin Petersen was joined to the group first and Vince was added while recording their second single "To Love Somebody".

The demo of this song was they recorded on Polydor Studio without Vince Melouney and they returned to the IBC Studios in London with Vince as a lead guitar to continue this song. - Wikipedia