Orinoco Flow is a single from Irish singer Enya . This song is often mistakenly called “Sail Away” (a phrase repeated in the lyrics of a song). At the same time, the American version of the single was renamed Orinoco Flow (Sail Away) .
| Orinoco flow | ||||
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| Enia's single from Watermark album | ||||
| Released | October 15, 1988 | |||
| Format | Compact cassette CD Record 7 " | |||
| Recorded by | 1988 | |||
| Genre | New age | |||
| Duration | 4:25 | |||
| Producer | Enya Nicky Ryan | |||
| Composer | Enya | |||
| Label | Reprise / EMI | |||
| Timeline of Enia's Singles | ||||
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This song was very popular in the early 1990s and was used in many pop music collections.
The name of the song refers to the London-based recording studio Orinoco Studios (now Miloco Studios ), in which it was recorded, and to the Orinoco River, although this sounds more like a planned pun.
The specific division of words into syllables to follow the melody of music may make the listener think that the lyrics are written in Latin (like some Enia’s songs), but the words are actually in English . At the end of the song, Enya pays tribute to Rob Dickins, Executive Director of Warner Brothers Music UK and more veiledly mentions producer Ross Coolum.
In 1998, on the tenth anniversary of the single's release, a remix version was released.
Content
- 1 At the cinema
- 2 Places found in the lyrics (in the order of mention)
- 3 Track Lists
- 3.1 1988
- 3.1.1 Record 7 "
- 3.1.2 3 "CD
- 3.2 1998
- 3.1 1988
- 4 Charts
- 5 Sales
- 6 notes
In the movie
- The song sounds in the cartoon " Shrek Forever After " (2010) as one of the backdrops in the scene of Rumplestiltskin addressing the people.
- In 2011, the song was used in the culmination scene of David Fincher's film “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ” (2011).
- In 2018, the song sounded in the cartoon " Monsters on Vacation 3: The Sea Calls " as one of the backgrounds in the scene where Mavis thought about how to relax with the whole family of monsters.
Places found in the lyrics (in order of mention)
- Orinoco - a river in Venezuela and Colombia
- Tripoli - the capital of Libya
- Yellow Sea - Pacific Ocean
- Bissau - the capital of Guinea-Bissau
- Palau - Caroline Islands Archipelago in Micronesia
- Avalon - the mythical island of Celtic legends
- Fiji - Southwest Pacific Archipelago
- Thyry - The most western island in the Inner Hebrides , Scotland
- Ebony Islands - a village and formerly an island in the channel of the Rother River in the southeast of England
- Peru - State in South America
- Cebu Island in the Philippines
- Babylon is the city of Ancient Mesopotamia , the ruins of which are located on the territory of modern Iraq
- Bali is an island in Indonesia
- Cali is a city in western Colombia
- Coral Sea - Sea of the Pacific Basin
- Inner Hebrides - Scotland archipelago (also the name of Enya’s later song - Ebudae)
- Khartoum - the capital of Sudan
- Sea of Clouds - lunar sea on the visible side of the moon
- Lunar Island - an island on Lake Titicaca , Bolivia
- Ross Dependent Territory - Antarctic Sector (and also - link to Ross Kulum)
Track Lists
1988Record 7 "
3 "CD
| 1998
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Charts
| Chart | Position |
|---|---|
| Australian ARIA Singles Chart [1] | 6 |
| Austrian Singles Chart [1] | 8 |
| Dutch Singles Chart [2] | one |
| European Hot 100 | one |
| French SNEP Singles Chart [1] | 16 |
| German Singles Chart [3] | 2 |
| Irish Singles Chart [4] | one |
| Norwegian Singles Chart [1] | 5 |
| Swedish Singles Chart [1] | 2 |
| Swiss Singles Chart [1] | one |
| UK Singles Chart [5] | one |
| US Billboard Hot 100 [6] | 24 |
| US Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks [6] | 7 |
| US Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks [6] | 6 |
Sales
| A country | Level | date of | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Britain [7] | Silver | November 1, 1988 | 200,000 |
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 “Orinoco Flow”, in various singles charts Lescharts.com
- ↑ De Nederlandse Top 40, week 48, 1988 (unreachable link) . Date of treatment March 26, 2008. Archived January 27, 2008.
- ↑ German Singles Chart Charts-surfer.de (Retrieved April 10 , 2008 )
- ↑ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved April 10 , 2008 )
- ↑ UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved April 10 , 2008 )
- ↑ 1 2 3 Billboard Allmusic.com (Retrieved September 5 , 2008 )
- ↑ Bpi.co.uk