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"After the Gold Rush" is a song written and performed by Neil Young and is the title song from his 1970 album of the same name. [1] In addition to After the Gold Rush, it also appears on the compilation albums Decade , and Greatest Hits , and on Live Rust .
The song is the theme song for California's Gold. The song is played in the classic Sierra game Gold Rush! as the ship carrying fortune seekers comes to port in Sacramento. Richard Nixon, in a set of instructions he left in case he were to die in office, directed that "California, Here I Come" should be played "softly and slowly" at his funeral.
After the Gold Rush is the third studio album by the Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released in September 1970 on Reprise Records.It is one of four high-profile solo albums released by the members of folk rock group Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their chart-topping 1970 album Déjà Vu.
The theme song's lyrics during the opening titles provide a back story for the point where the film begins: Sam McCord left Seattle in 1892 with George and Billy Pratt, "crossed the Yukon river" and "found the bonanza gold below that old white mountain just a little southeast of Nome."
Music author Nigel Williamson describes "I Believe in You" as being the song on After the Gold Rush which best fits the "confessional singer-songwriter mode", suggesting that it is similar to some James Taylor songs. [4] Sam Inglis regards it as one of the best of Young's songs in which he tries to rationalize his behavior to women he has left. [5]
Gold Rush" is a nimble chamber pop song [42] [12] with drums, horns, violins, swiveling shifts in tempo, [36] and a "dreamy" chorus. Its frenzy verses are couplets delivered in a pulsating rhythm over persistent beats, [23] [43] with a red herring in its intro and outro made of "layered vocals".
"Gold Rush" originated as a demo that the band planned to discard, but was revisited at the suggestion of producer Rich Costey and combined with another demo. [1] The song was written by lead vocalist and guitarist Ben Gibbard as "a requiem for a skyline", inspired by the rapid changes to Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, where Gibbard had lived for 20 years and some areas were "almost ...
Solid Gold – Theme song performed by Dionne Warwick (Seasons 1 and 4) and Marilyn McCoo (Seasons 2–3, 5–8) Some Mothers Do 'Ave Em – Ronnie Hazlehurst; The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour ("The Beat Goes On") – Sonny Bono and Cher; Sonny with a Chance ("So Far, So Great") – Demi Lovato; The Sooty Show – Alan Braden