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==Plot==
==Plot==
The 'story-song' tells the tale of a man who goes to meet his love by the river, by the old oak tree, and finds that she has committed suicide by drowning herself, "river more deadly, than the vainest knife". A note on the riverbank explains that she had cheated on him and cannot lie about it, "No longer can I live with this hurt and this sin. I just couldn't tell you that guy was just a friend." He then looks into the river and sees his own reflection on the river looking back, ever hauntingly, at him. He is the "lonely, lonely face just lookin' back at me". So with "Tears in his eyes, and a prayer on his lips, and the glove of his lost love, at his fingertips".
The 'story-song' tells the tale of a man who goes to meet his love by the river, by the old oak tree, and finds that she has committed suicide by drowning herself, "river more deadly, than the vainest knife". A note on the riverbank explains that she had cheated on him and cannot lie about it, "No longer can I live with this hurt and this sin. I just couldn't tell you that guy was just a friend." He then looks into the river and sees his own reflection on the river looking back, hauntingly. He is the "lonely, lonely face just lookin' back at me". So with "Tears in his eyes, and a prayer on his lips, and the glove of his lost love, at his fingertips".


== Chart performance ==
== Chart performance ==

Revision as of 22:21, 21 July 2022

"Moody River"
Moody River by Pat Boone
Single by Pat Boone
from the album Moody River
B-side"A Thousand Years"
ReleasedMay 1961
RecordedApril 8, 1961
StudioRadio Recorders, Hollywood, California, U.S.
GenreCountry pop
Length2:41
LabelDot
Songwriter(s)Gary D. Bruce
Producer(s)Randy Wood

"Moody River" is a song written by and originally performed by country rockabilly singer Chase Webster (real name Gary Daniel Bruce, not to be confused with Gary Bruce of The Knack).

Pat Boone recorded and released his own version in May 1961, where it reached number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the following month.[1] This was the title track from one of Boone's better-selling albums. Boone sang this song as if he were in pain.

Plot

The 'story-song' tells the tale of a man who goes to meet his love by the river, by the old oak tree, and finds that she has committed suicide by drowning herself, "river more deadly, than the vainest knife". A note on the riverbank explains that she had cheated on him and cannot lie about it, "No longer can I live with this hurt and this sin. I just couldn't tell you that guy was just a friend." He then looks into the river and sees his own reflection on the river looking back, hauntingly. He is the "lonely, lonely face just lookin' back at me". So with "Tears in his eyes, and a prayer on his lips, and the glove of his lost love, at his fingertips".

Chart performance

Chart (1961) Peak
position
Canada (CHUM Hit Parade)[2] 1
New Zealand (Lever Hit Parade)[3] 1
U.K. Singles charts 18
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[4] 1
U.S. Adult Contemporany 4

See also

References

  1. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  2. ^ CHUM Tribute Charts, June 26, 1961
  3. ^ Flavour of New Zealand, 20 July 1961
  4. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X