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Themes for Tuesday songs in June: 3rd: Bayou, 10th: River, 17th: Lake, 24th: Sea
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>>>This diary features songs with the word ‘river’ in the title.
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I did some research to find the precise definition of river, but there are many descriptions and no firm consensus. The following are not precisely defined, from what I saw. River, Stream, Creek, Brook, Kill, lots more, are loosely named. Here in the Ozarks, there are small creeks called ‘branches’, and of course the rain-created flows down the hollers, those have no special name that I’ve heard here.
Here’s a site that tries to well-define some of the terms. water everywhere
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Wikis: Take Me To The River Green River The River Of Dreams
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"Take Me to the River" is a 1974 song written by singer Al Green.
The band Talking Heads recorded the song for their second album The song was as a single, and reached #26 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in February 1979, as well as hitting the singles charts in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Thomas Ryan wrote of Talking Heads' version that it "broadsided the status quo by combining the best ingredients of conventional pop music and classic soul music, stirring them together, and then presenting the mix in the guise of punk rock”
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"Green River" is a song by American rock band CCR. The song was based on a childhood vacation spot of John Fogerty’s. In an interview Fogerty gave to Rolling Stone in 2012, Fogerty stated:
What really happened is that I used a setting like New Orleans, but I would actually be talking about a thing from my own life. Certainly a song like "Green River" – which you may think would fit seamlessly into the Bayou vibe, but it's actually about the Green River, as I named it – it was actually called Putah Creek by Winters, California. It wasn't called Green River, but in my mind I always sort of called it Green River. All those little anecdotes are part of my childhood, those are things that happened to me actually, I just wrote about them and the audience shifted at the time and place.
Fogerty added that the "actual specific reference, 'Green River,' I got from a soda pop-syrup label... My flavor was called Green River.
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"The River of Dreams" is a song by American musician Billy Joel. It was released in July 1993 and became a hit, peaking at number three on the US and UK charts, making it Joel's best-charting single of the decade as well as his final top ten in either country to date.
The music video for the song was shot on the Providence & Worcester railroad bridge spanning the Connecticut River. Joel and three backup singers appear throughout the video standing on the western span of the bridge, with the open center section of the bridge behind them. The scenes inside the tobacco barn with Joel on the piano were filmed inside a still-used tobacco barn in South Glastonbury, Connecticut.
Joel's then-wife Christie Brinkley can be seen painting the artwork that features on the front cover of the album River Of Dreams. She is the illustrator who painted the actual album artwork, and each single released from the album featured one part of the large painting as cover art.
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Take Me To The River by The Talking Heads
Green River by CCR
The River Of Dreams by Billy Joel
