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Subject	1993 singles Number-one singles in Australia Columbia Records singles Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one singles Songs about religion Billy Joel songs Songs written by Billy Joel
abstract	%22The River of Dreams%22 is a song by Billy Joel. It is the title track and first single from his 1993 album River of Dreams. The song was a hit, peaking at #3 on the United States and UK charts, making it his highest charting of the 1990s; indeed, it was the only album he released during the 1990s. It also hit the top spot in Australia and on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. The song was produced by Joe Nicolo and Danny Korchmar.In the video, the filming was shot on the Providence & Worcester railroad bridge spanning the Connecticut River in the city of Middletown, Connecticut. Other locations that were filmed in the music video are near Portland, East Haddam, and Old Saybrook, Connecticut. The scenes inside the tobacco barn with Joel on the piano were filmed inside a still used tobacco barn in South Glastonbury, Connecticut. Joel and three backup singers appear throughout the video standing on the western span of the bridge, with the open center section of the bridge behind them. Joel's then-wife Christie Brinkley can be seen painting the artwork that features on the front cover of the album River of Dreams. She is the illustrator who painted the actual album artwork, and each single released from the album featured one part of the large painting as cover art. Their 7 year old daughter Alexa Ray Joel appears to be the young girl who is briefly shown before the scene with her mother.At 3 minutes 45 seconds into the song, you can hear Joel singing The Cadillacs version of %22Gloria%22 as the song fades out.At least four versions of the song have been recorded and released. Two versions (released years later) include a bridge section containing a piano interlude paralleling Joel's melody from his song %22Lullabye (Goodnight My Angel),%22 which is from the same album. These versions can be found on the boxed sets My Lives and Complete Hits Collection: 1973-1999 - but even these versions differ from each other, both in length and in arrangement: one, for instance, has more percussion. A fourth mix appears as a bonus cut on the UK CD single of %22River of Dreams%22 — the %22percapella mix%22 done by Nicolo.%22The River of Dreams%22 was nominated for the 1993 Grammy Record of the Year award, but it lost out to %22I Will Always Love You%22 by Whitney Houston.In his performance of the song during the 1994 Grammy Awards telecast, Joel left a long pause in the middle of the song to protest the decision to cut off Frank Sinatra's acceptance speech after Sinatra received that year's Grammy Legend Award. During the pause, Joel noted he was wasting %22valuable advertising time.%22
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