I would swear in court that I remember listening to Enya’s “Orinoco Flow” on the radio while driving with my dad the summer I was ten or eleven. This is, of course, impossible, since that would place it in 1965 or '66, and it apparently wasn’t written until twenty-odd years later.
I do, however, distinctly recall hearing the “Sail away, sail away, sail away!” part long before then.
Was there ever a song/tune back in the mid-sixties that could have been mistaken for “Orinoco Flow,” even in just that one part? Or was I caught in some kind of time warp? :dubious:
Very possible, though I remember the orchestration being much more lush with lots of plucked strings. (The first time I heard “Orinoco Flow” in the '90s, I said to myself “So that’s the tune I remember hearing back then!”)
What the hell, it was almost fifty years ago! Memory can indeed play strange tricks on you.
The opening of “Orinoco Flow” is definitely reminiscent of a song I remember from the 60’s, but I can’t put my finger on what it was. Could you possibly be conflating a couple of different songs that resemble “Orinoco Flow” in some way?
