Re: "Jewish" Rock?

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

   There is an earlier version that can be found in African Methodist Music 
Literature.  That's where I first heard it, as a kid.
     Trudi the G


>From: "robert wiener" <wiener (at) mindspring(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: "Jewish" Rock?
>Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 01:23:01 -0400
>
>Hi Wolf:
>
>I know the "Rivers of Babylon" from The Harder They Come.  I wondered
>whether the Boney M version was the same.  Looking it up in the All
>Music Guide it seems that it is.  The credited composer for the Boney
>M song is one of the 4 composers credited for the The Harder They Come
>version.
>
>Note: The Steve Earle version isn't even mentioned by AMG.
>
>Bob
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kame'a Media <media (at) kamea(dot)com>
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Date: Friday, May 05, 2000 5:07 PM
>Subject: Re: "Jewish" Rock?
>
>
> >Hi Bob:
> >
> >"Rivers of Babylon" (performed by The Melodians)
> >originally from the soundtrack of the film,
> >The Harder They Come (c.1973).
> >
> >"By the rivers of Babylon, where he sat down
> >And there he wept when he remembered Zion"
> >
> >and
> >
> >"...may the words of our mouth
> >And the meditation of our heart
> > Be acceptable in thy sight"
> >...
> >I believe, are from =tanakh=.
> >
> >Other lines include:
> >"O, the wicked carried us away captivity
> >Require from us a song,
> >How can we sing King Alfa song
> >in a strange land"
> >
> >I can't comment specifically on the Boney M version,
> >(never having heard it),
> > but I have a version by country music artist Steve Earle
> >you may also be interested in cataloguing.
> >
> >Wolf
> >
> >robert wiener wrote:
> >
> >> How about Boney M's "Rivers of Babylon"?
> >>
> >> Bob
> >>
> >
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