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Massachusetts Bee Gees Song




  Artist Bee Gees
  From Album Horizontal
  B-side "Barker of the UFO" ( Barry Gibb )
  Released August 1967
  Format Vinyl Record
  Recorded IBC Studios , Portland Place , London
  Length 2:22
  Label UK:
  Writer Barry Gibb / Robin Gibb / Maurice Gibb
  Producer Robert Stigwood
  Chart Position <ul><li>#11 ( USA ), #1 ( UK )</li></ul>
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  Last Single Holiday <br />( 1967 )
  This Single "Massachusetts" <br />( 1967 )
  Next Single "World" <br />( 1967 )


"Massachusetts" is a song written, recorded, and released by the Bee Gees in 1967 and later appearing on their 1968 Album , '' Horizontal ''. It was their first Number 1 hit in the UK .

For Maurice Gibb , the song had a painful memory attached. Shortly after it was recorded, Beatles manager Brian Epstein told him that it was beautiful and would be the hit of the summer. These proved to be Epstein's last words to Maurice -- Epstein died a few days later.

This single is the first number-one hit single by a non-Japanese artist on Japan's official hit chart, Oricon.

  Before " The Last Waltz " by Engelbert Humperdinck
  Title UK Number One Single
  Years October 11 1967
  After " Baby Now That I've Found You " by The Foundations