Rivers of Babylon

Rivers of Babylon "is a song written and recorded by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of the Jamaican reggae group The Melodians in 1970. However, the song was popularized by the cover version of the German disco group [http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=nl&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBoney_M. Boney m.] in 1978.

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[hide] *1 The Melodians
 * 2 Boney M.
 * Phoney Jam 3
 * 4 a parody

==The Melodians[ Edit] == In 1970 brought the Jamaican reggae group The Melodians the single Rivers of Babylon from. The song was written and performed by Are Dowe and Trevor McNaughton.The version was not a hit. After the German disco group [http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=nl&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBoney_M. Boney m.] covered the song in 1978, came the release of The Melodians in in the Dutch Single Top 100 for 1 week. Versions of the original execution to hear in the title song of the movie The Harder They Come (1972) and in the film Bringing Out the Dead (1999). ===Background[ Edit] === The character of this song results mainly from the Bibleliterally taken over Psalms. It contains pieces from Psalm 137: 1 and Psalm 19: 14 or 19: 15. It concerns the Jews in exile who wistfully recall the rivers in Babel to their homeland. For the Rastafari is this song recognizable: the river is the Atlantic Ocean, Zion is Africa and Babylon is America (the slave-story). ===Chart Positions[ Edit] === ====Dutch Single Top 100[ Edit] ====

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 * align="center" colspan="3" len="74" style="vertical-align:top;"|Rivers of Babylon / Brown girl in the ring
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 * lang="en" len="11" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Released
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 * len="176" style="vertical-align:top;font-weight:bold;"|Writer (s)
 * colspan="2" lang="en" len="1005" style="vertical-align:top;"|Frank Farian, Hans-Jörg Mayer, Brent Dowe, Trevor McNaughton
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 * align="center" colspan="3" len="34" style="vertical-align:top;"|Position (s) in the charts
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 * No. 1 (Dutch Single Top 100, Dutch Top 40, Flemish Radio 2 Top 30, United Kingdom,Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, Norway, New Zealand)
 * No. 30 (United States)
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 * align="center" colspan="3" len="175" style="vertical-align:top;"|Boney M.
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==Boney M.<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Rivers of Babylon is one of the best selling songs of the disco group [http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=nl&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBoney_M. Boney m.], with almost 2 million sold records in Great Britain, where it took out 3 x Platinum . In the Dutch Single Top 100 was 9 weeks on number one. It was the best-selling single of 1978 in Netherlands with almost 400,000 copies sold.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  after the death of Bobby Farrell in december 2010, the single for 1 week back in the Dutch Single Top 100. ===Chart Positions<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ====Dutch Top 40<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ====Dutch Single Top 100<span class="mw-editsection" len="350" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ====Flemish Radio 2 Top 30<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ====Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ====
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==Phoney Jam<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2004, Phoney Jam a dance/house version of the song Rivers of Babylon. The single was 1 week noted in the Dutch Single Top 100. ===Chart Positions<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ====Dutch Single Top 100<span class="mw-editsection" len="351" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== ==A parody<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1978, the song was parodied by The Barron Knights in their medley A Taste of Aggro. "By the rivers of Babylon ' was ' there's a dentist in Birmingham '.