Let the River Run
| "Let the River Run" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
||||
| Single by Carly Simon | ||||
| from the album Working Girl (Original Soundtrack Album) | ||||
| B-side | Turn of the Tide from the 1988 Democratic National Convention as well as Free to Be... a Family | |||
| Released | 1989 | |||
| Format |
7" Single CD Single |
|||
| Recorded | 1988 | |||
| Length | 3:43 | |||
| Label | Arista | |||
| Writer(s) | Carly Simon | |||
| Producer(s) |
Rob Mounsey Carly Simon |
|||
| Carly Simon singles chronology | ||||
|
||||
"Let the River Run" is a song first featured in the 1988 film Working Girl, with music and lyrics by Carly Simon. The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1989. The song also won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song at the 46th Golden Globe Awards, tying with "Two Hearts" by Phil Collins and Lamont Dozier from Buster, in 1989, and a Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television in 1990.
The Working Girl soundtrack also contains a choral version of the track featuring The St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys of New York City. The album peaked at #45 on the Billboard 200.
Simon has stated that she found inspiration for the lyrics by first reading the original script, and then the poems of Walt Whitman. Musically, she wanted to write a hymn to New York with a contemporary jungle beat under it, so as to juxtapose those opposites in a compelling way. The phrases "Silver Cities Rise" and "The New Jerusalem" seem to have taken on a new meaning for many people, but the song was not originally composed with any particular political and/or religious overtones, although English literature and history majors, as well as most UK residents, will recognize the allusion to William Blake and 19th-century English history.
...
Wikipedia