…The song started with a different title. To me, there was something very grand yet jungle-like about the story of these naive secretaries going every day into the Wall Street jungle.” From the beginning, I thought it should be a hymn with a jungle beat. …I looked through ‘ Leaves of Grass’ and though I couldn’t find what I wanted, the poetry helped me get toward the feeling I wanted. “The opening sequence was so grand with its images of the Hudson River, the Statue of Liberty and the gleaming steel buildings that it seemed to call up a Walt Whitman feel. In a February 1989 story by Stephen Holden of the New York Times, Simon noted that the song was partly inspired by the movie’s New York city shooting script: Melanie Griffith, in character, on her work-a-day ferry ride to the 'Wall Street jungle' in 1988's 'Working Girl'. Simon’s uplifting tune fit the mood of the film quite well, complimenting the “working girl’s” rise to the corner office and getting her due. But Nichols wanted Simon’s song and his choice prevailed - to the benefit of film, viewers, and listeners. However, studio executives at one point threatened to replace it with “Witchy Woman,” a song made famous by the rock group The Eagles. “Mike was ecstatic about it right from the beginning,” Simon would later say.
Mike Nichols liked the song from the time he first heard it. She wrote it initially as the film’s opening theme.
“Let The River Run” became the film’s signature song. Simon would later explain that working on the film score took her the better part of 1988. In Working Girl, Melanie Griffith, the film’s central character, plays a smart, but stuck-in-a- dead-end-job secretary, who later rises to the top with a good idea despite various foils along the way. As the story unfolds, the music becomes a key part of the set up and compliments the film’s message, lingering in effect for many viewers long after the film’s showing This would be the second time in her career that Carly Simon would write music for a Mike Nichols movie. Two years earlier, in 1986, Simon had written “Coming Around Again” for the Nichols’ film Heartburn, based on the Nora Ephron book. A strong audience response to that song led to its release as a single, becoming one of Simon’s biggest hits. In 1988, Mike Nichols, director of films such as The Graduate (1967), Carnal Knowledge (1971), and Silkwood (1983), asked Simon to score the music for a new film he was working on - a film that would become Working Girl, starring Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, and Joan Cussak. In 1988, singer-songwriter Carly Simon was living in Martha’s Vineyard with her second husband, Jim Hart, and her two children. By then, Simon was already a popular recording artist with a number of hit songs, among them: “Anticipation” (1972), “You’re So Vain” (1973), and “Nobody Does It Better” (1977). European maxi-single cover, Arista, 1989.
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They did have other models as well used in movies but I can't recall them all.‘Let The River Run,’ by Carly Simon – from the movie ‘Working Girl’ – won an Oscar, two Grammys, and a Golden Globe. If you gave me a blank check, I could make alot of things look spectacular. Yes it looks nice, but It would probably scare most of us. I can only imagine the money it has cost to build the park they built. There is some bad blood between Charlie wood and certain members of local Gov't and I think they wanted to erase anything connected to him, in anything other than name sake. Many locals really wanted the town to save some of the buildings from Gaslight village and incorporate, repurpose them into the new park, such as the Cavalcade of cars and Opera house, but they said it was too costly, as the cavalcade of cars needed a new roof quoted around a million dollars I believe, when one of the Board members said it's a crock being a contractor knew the roof could have been done for under 150G. I think politicians just like wasting money. Must be they thought they needed another nature park, next to the state battlefield park, at the bottom of the over 6 million acre Adirondack state Park. Now it feels like walking through a tick trail. They dozed it to make a Nature park, now pretty overgrown so you can't see much of anything they planted to give you a natural experience. Charlie wood also owned a club across the Street from Gaslight village I think called Charlie Woods. I collect stuff from the Hey day of the area. I have some pictures I think somewhere but a few original Pieces of advertising of the area I'll upload shortly.
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