Cathedral Song

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"Cathedral Song"
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Single by Tanita Tikaram
from the album Ancient Heart
A-side "Cathedral Song"
B-side "Sighing Innocents, Fireflies In The Kitchen, Let’s Make Everybody Smile Today, Over To You All [LIVE]"
Released2 January 1989 [1]
Recorded1988
Genre Folk rock
Length2:52
Label WEA
Songwriter(s) Tanita Tikaram
Producer(s) Peter Van Hooke, Rod Argent
Tanita Tikaram singles chronology
"Twist in My Sobriety"
(1988)		"Cathedral Song"
(1989)		"World Outside Your Window"
(1989)

"Cathedral Song" is a song by English singer-songwriter Tanita Tikaram, released as a single from her debut album, Ancient Heart (1988). It peaked at #48 in the UK. [2] An extended length music video was made from the song, portraying a love story between two swimmers in a Summer setting. The video was shot in black and white, and Tikaram appears only in studio footage, not on the external footage. Most of the music video was filmed in Portugal, in Praia Grande, Praia do Guincho, Estoril and Cristo Rei sanctuary.

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Releases

WEA released a limited edition 7-inch EP box set which had three prints from the video. Other formats also had live tracks - "Over You All" (CD/7-inch box), "Let's Make Everybody Smile Today" (CD/12-inch/7-inch box) and "Fireflies In The Kitchen" (12-inch). Studio versions of the latter two were not recorded.

Reception

Upon its release, Jerry Smith of Music Week praised it as a "wonderfully effective, dreamy ballad, with breathy vocal and complimentary sparse backing" that "deserves wide exposure". [3] William Shaw of Smash Hits wrote, "It's a pleasant enough tune; a dreamy, floaty thing, full of haunting organs and guitar pluckings. But, if like me you spend all your time wondering what Tanita is singing about, then the sepulchral beauty of the whole thing kind of passes you by." [4]

Charts

Chart (1989)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [5] 120
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista) [6] 17
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [7] 36
Netherlands (Tipparade) [8] 2
UK Singles (OCC) [2] 48
West Germany (GfK Entertainment Charts) [9] 71

Covers

The song was covered by Brazilian singer Zélia Duncan. Her version, which has a similar arrangement but lyrics in Portuguese, was released in her second homonymous album (1994) and became a smash hit in Brazil. Her version (titled simply "Catedral") was also covered by Leandro from Leandro e Leonardo and by Renato Russo from Legião Urbana.

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References

  1. ↑ "News: Tanita's Smile". Sounds . 24 December 1988. p. 3.
  2. 1 2 "Official Charts > Tanita Tikaram". The Official UK Charts Company. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  3. ↑ Smith, Jerry (21 January 1989). "A&R: Singles". Music Week . p. 37. ISSN   0265-1548.
  4. ↑ Shaw, William (11 January 1989). "Review: Singles". Smash Hits .
  5. ↑ "Response from ARIA re: Tanita Tikaram ARIA singles chart history, received 19 September 2017". Imgur.com. Archived from the original on 4 April 2018. Retrieved 19 September 2017. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the single's peak on the national chart.
  6. ↑ Pennanen, Timo (2021). "Tanita Tikaram". Sisältää hitin - 2. laitos Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla 1.1.1960–30.6.2021 (PDF) (in Finnish). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 259. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 January 2022. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
  7. ↑ "dutchcharts.nl > Tanita Tikaram in Dutch Charts" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 29 October 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  8. ↑ "Tanita Tikaram - Cathedral Song" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Archived from the original on 15 July 2024. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  9. ↑ "Tanita Tikaram – Cathedral Song (single)" (in German). GfK Entertainment. Archived from the original on 29 October 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2017.


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