Ripple (song)

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"Ripple"
Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter[1]
Producer(s)Grateful Dead
Steve Barncard
Grateful Dead singles chronology
"'
New Speedway Boogie
'"
(1970) 		"Ripple"
(1970) 		"'Johnny B. Goode / So Fine'"
(1972)

"Ripple" is the sixth song on the Grateful Dead album American Beauty. It was released as the B-side to the single "Truckin'".[2]

Background

Robert Hunter wrote this song in 1970 in London on the same afternoon he wrote "Brokedown Palace" and "To Lay Me Down" (reputedly drinking half a bottle of retsina in the process [3]). The song debuted August 18, 1970 at Fillmore West in San Francisco. Jerry Garcia wrote the music to this song.[3]

"Ripple" has a similar melody[

Because He Lives," which was published a year later.[4] Both songs are similar[citation needed] to "Any Dream Will Do" from the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
.

In popular culture

A number of essays have been written analyzing and annotating this song.[3]

The 1985 drama film Mask, with Cher and Eric Stoltz, features this song.[5]

The song is played during the last scene of the television series Freaks and Geeks.

Reception

In 2021, Rolling Stone ranked the song at number 334 in their updated list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

References

  1. ^ a b "Image of "Ripple" single". Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
  2. ^ "Grateful Dead Family Discography: The Grateful Dead Discography". www.deaddisc.com. Retrieved November 6, 2019.
  3. ^ a b c "The Annotated "Ripple"". artsites.ucsc.edu. Retrieved November 6, 2019.
  4. ^ "Because He Lives".
  5. ^ "Soundtrack listing for Mask". IMDb. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
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