Talk:Orinoco Flow

Untitled

Fair use of Wikipedia:Lyrics? This is educational purposes and it is only a introduction of the song, related to the wikipedia information. Thanks! --x1987x 17:43, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

I decided finally to be bold, as we're all encouraged to do, and added the single song infobox. I also removed the posted lyrics (the first verse and refrain) because I'm not sure it's covered under fair use; if someone disagrees, feel free to add them back. I'll also need help finding actual release dates, reviews and other production information. The full song infobox (see The Great Beyond for an excellent use of the song infobox. In any event, it's done, and one more editing hurdle has been jumped. ddlamb 05:31, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Sampled

I once remember hearing on American Top 40 that the music for "Orinoco Flow" was sampled from an old Andy Williams song or something. Is this true? Doberdog 14:00, 18 September 2006 (UTC)Doberdog

No, both music and lyrics were originals. PacificBoy 19:51, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

The intro is very similar to Andy Williams' "Can't Get Used to Losing You", especially the live, faster version 68.83.64.174 (talk) 23:59, 3 July 2013 (UTC)HippoGrl

Not to mention the song is famous for popularising the "Pizzagogo" patch on roland's d-50 synthesizer released only a year earlier. 76.103.47.66 (talk) 07:53, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Well, at least one critic has noted a similarity to the chorus of George Harrison's "Blow Away". Muzilon (talk) 02:18, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

A couple of decades ago, I heard a suggestion that it had a certain minor similarity to the lead-in to T'pau's song, "China in Your Hand". 2601:1C2:4E02:3020:4146:2231:C4F1:8E76 (talk) 18:34, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Ancient Song??

I heard that Orinoco Flow is actually a very old traditional song and that it is just sung by modern singers.24.83.178.11 (talk) 11:47, 15 December 2007 (UTC)BeeCier

I heard that Dick Gephardt was actually president in 1988 but that the Miami Dolphins made us all forget during a mass hypnosis. 68.0.119.139 (talk) 02:55, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Ambiguous

Orinoco Flow is also the title of a song performed by Celtic Woman.Miqrogroove (talk) 23:25, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

A very late response, but this is because the song Orinoco Flow by Celtic Woman is a cover of Enya's version. —Kal ^(talk) 03:33, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Next advertisments

I've already heard this song in advertisment for next czech TV channel - Prima Cool. Can anyone recognize it and add to relevant section? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.101.177.218 (talk) 14:21, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

You're right, the ad can be found here. I added it in the list of appearances.Pim Rijkee (talk) 12:00, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Isles of Ebony

I have never heard of Ebony, Kent being referred to as the "Isles of Ebony", and I can't find any reference to this. Ebony is a tiny hamlet north of Stone in Oxney, even most of the locals have not heard of the place. It's not even shown on Google Maps. I somehow doubt that "Isles of Ebony" refers to this place. 91.85.128.11 (talk) 13:06, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Crystal Pepsi?

I (and I think many people) came to know this song through a commercial in the early 1990s-- I think it was for Crystal Pepsi. Can anyone else confirm that? --Anonymous 18:46, Nov 23, 2014 (UTC)

music

To my lay ears, this piece of music has an unusual structure, with a distinct choppiness and a strong feeling of forward movement that pulls you on and then leaves you hanging. I assume there are technical explanations of what is doing this, and it would be nice to know. At the least, how about what key it's in etc.?211.225.33.104 (talk) 13:15, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

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Key To All The Locations Mentioned In This Song?

I could have sworn I remember this article including a listing of all the places that this song mentions, and where they are located (or, failing that, what they refer to); am I imagining things, or did someone actually remove this highly useful, educational, and desirable feature?!? PLEASE, oh please put it back!!!  :( The Grand Rascal (talk) 06:21, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Popular culture

In section Template:Alink, the bullet points could be usefully grouped under subheadings, e.g.

• Music
• Film
• TV series
• Other

yoyo (talk) 02:39, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Unsourced lyric claim on Adaheli

On Adaheli, it says Orinoco Flow "uses the Adaheli in its chorus". I looked high and low for anything mentioning this and came up empty-handed. It would be an interesting fact to add to this page, but it's unsourced. If anyone has any print books or magazines that make the connection (even if it's an urban legend), that would be marvelous. Cheers, Estheim (talk) 15:41, 18 March 2021 (UTC)