The Dolphin's Cry

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"The Dolphin's Cry"
Dolphins Cry.jpg
Single by Live
from the album The Distance to Here
ReleasedAugust 24, 1999 (1999-08-24)
Studio
Length
  • 4:25 (album version)
  • 4:02 (radio edit)
Label Radioactive
Songwriter(s) Ed Kowalczyk
Producer(s)
Live singles chronology
"Rattlesnake"
(1997)		"The Dolphin's Cry"
(1999)		"Run to the Water"
(2000)
Music video
"The Dolphin's Cry" on YouTube

"The Dolphin's Cry" is a song by American alternative rock band Live, released on August 24, 1999, as the lead single from their fourth studio album, The Distance to Here . The song was co-produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads, and features Adam Duritz of Counting Crows on backing vocals. It reached number one on the Canadian RPM Top 30 Rock Report and number two on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. Internationally, "The Dolphin's Cry" peaked at number one in Iceland, number seven in Flanders, and number 10 in the Netherlands while reaching the top 50 on the Australian and New Zealand music charts.

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Chart performance

In the United States "The Dolphin's Cry" reached number 78 on the Billboard Hot 100, number two on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart and number three on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. [1] [2] [3] In Canada, the song topped the RPM Top 30 Rock Report. [4] The single also reached number one in Iceland, number seven the Flanders region of Belgium, number 10 in the Netherlands, number 25 in Australia, number 48 in New Zealand, and number 62 in the United Kingdom. [5] [6] [7] In the latter country, it topped the UK Rock Chart. [8] In Australia, the single earned a Gold certification for shipments in excess of 35,000. [9]

Music video

The music video, directed by Martin Weisz, [10] features the band playing in an alley as successively larger waves of water flow towards them. The other people in the alley grow more panicked as the waves get larger. Towards the end of the song, the largest wave sweeps through the alley and knocks the band down, but they get back up and resume playing.

Track listings

Credits and personnel

Credits are lifted from the US promo CD liner notes and The Distance to Here album booklet. [16] [17]

Studios

Live

Other personnel

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [9] Gold35,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United StatesAugust 24, 1999 Radioactive [29]
United KingdomJanuary 24, 2000CD [30]

This song was featured in The Sopranos episode University when Caitlin Rucker interrupts Meadow Soprano and Noah Tannenbaum kissing and was also used in the film Urban Legends: Final Cut . [31] [32]

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