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“Let the River Run” is a song written, composed, and performed by American singer-songwriter Carly Simon, and is the theme to the 1988 Mike Nichols film Working Girl.
The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television. With these wins, Carly Simon became the first artist in history to win this trio of awards for a song that she composed, wrote, and performed entirely by herself.
According to a FAQ on Carly Simon’s website, she found inspiration for the lyrics by reading the original Working Girl script and the poetry of Walt Whitman. Musically, Simon has described the song as “a hymn to New York” and an “anthem with a jungle beat,” contrasting those opposites in a compelling way.
This was not the first time Carly Simon worked on a Mike Nichols movie. She also contributed “Coming Around Again” to his 1986 film Heartburn, which starred Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson.
Simon described Nichols, who passed away in 2014, as “kind of a muse” for both songs. “Mike and I started not really dating but we started seeing each other before we started working together,” she explained in the book Anthems We Love. “He was always going to give you something great every time you talked to him. And I wanted to do the same for him. I wanted to be the same persona for him.”
