The River (The Tea Party song)

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"The River"
The Tea Party The River.jpg
Commercial CD Single, UK
Single by The Tea Party
from the album Splendor Solis
A-side "The River (radio edit)", "The River (album)", "Winter Solstice"
B-side "Watching What the Rain Blows In"
Released1993
RecordedWhite Crow Audio (Burlington, Vermont)
Length5:42
Label Chrysalis/EMI
Songwriter(s) The Tea Party
Producer(s) Jeff Martin
The Tea Party singles chronology
"The River"
(1993)
"Save Me"
(1993)

"The River" is a song by Canadian rock band The Tea Party. It was released as a single in Australia and the UK, where it reached #79 in the UK Singles Chart, [1] #99 in Australia, [2] and was a promotional single in Canada and the USA. [3]

Contents

The music video was shot in Toronto, directed by Floria Sigismondi and features a cameo by Roy Harper. [4] The video also features footage of the Old Mill event venue in Toronto. [5]

"The River" was the band's first single and is a standard three-piece rock composition with a lot of Wah-wah pedal. An acoustic version with tar (lute), santur and drums was recorded in August 1995 at Studio Morin Heights (Morin Heights) for Alhambra but appears as a B-side on the "Temptation" single and the European Triptych Special Tour Edition 2000 album.

Track listing

  1. "The River (radio edit)"
  2. "The River (album)"
  3. "Winter Solstice"
  4. "Watching What the Rain Blows in"

Charts

Chart performance for "The River"
Chart (1994)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [6] 99
UK Singles (OCC) [7] 79

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