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A music video for the song was filmed and released, featuring Simon, along with Working Girl actresses Melanie Griffith and Joan Cusack, aboard the Staten Island Ferry. [10] As a single , the song reached peak positions of No. 49 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 11 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in 1989.
Blake's New Jerusalem is an album by Tim Blake, recorded and originally released in 1978 on Barclay. [1] [2] The album was remastered and expanded in 2017, adding three more tracks. The title is a reference to the popular British hymn "Jerusalem", which is based on William Blake's 1804 poem "And did those feet in ancient time".
Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem! To sweet new strains attune your theme; The while we keep, from care releas'd, With sober joy our Paschal Feast: When Christ, Who spake the Dragon's doom, Rose, Victor-Lion, from the Tomb: That while with living voice He cries, The dead of other years might rise. Engorg'd in former years, their prey
The song was used in the 1979 Schoolhouse Rock! segment "Them Not-So-Dry Bones", about the skeletal system. Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song for the end credits of their 1999 direct-to-video film Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein. [4] The song is performed on two episodes of the PBS Kids show It's a Big Big World, in 2007.
The three verses of the song describe in turn, a crowd cheering Jesus Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, Jesus's crucifixion on Good Friday, and the eventual "New Jerusalem" (Zion) of universal peace and brotherhood, which is foretold in Isaiah 2:4 [2] and Isaiah 11:6-9. [3]
New Jerusalem, 2011; 11Q18 New Jerusalem, a Dead Sea Scroll; New Jerusalem Bible, a Catholic translation of the Bible; The New Jerusalem (Chesterton book) "And did those feet in ancient time", a poem by William Blake with the alternate title "The New Jerusalem" The New Jerusalem, a brass band piece; New Jerusalem, by David Ives
The song's principal riff is sampled in "Sabbatical" by German nu jazz group De-Phazz on their 2001 album Death by Chocolate. "Crystal Blue Persuasion" was prominently featured in the 2012 Breaking Bad episode " Gliding Over All ", during an elaborate montage depicting the international drug smuggling operation for Walter White 's signature ...
There are many songs about Jerusalem from various time periods, especially nationalistically-themed songs from the time of the Six-Day War, when East Jerusalem passed from Jordanian control to Israeli. Additionally many Biblical Psalms, styled as songs, were written specifically about Jerusalem. Jewish liturgy and hymns are rife with references ...