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"Cuyahoga" is a song by R.E.M. from their 1986 album Lifes Rich Pageant. It was written primarily by R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry , but credited to the whole band. [ 1 ] It is one of R.E.M.'s earliest environmentally conscious songs, along with the album's lead single, " Fall on Me ".
The upper Cuyahoga River, starting at 1,093 feet (333 m) over 84 miles (135 km) from its mouth, drops in elevation fairly steeply, creating falls and rapids in some places; the lower Cuyahoga River only drops several feet along the last several miles of the lower river to 571 feet (174 m) [4] at the mouth on Lake Erie, resulting in relatively ...
In June 1969, a fire on Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River-the last in a series of big blazes spanning decades-spurred the government to make sweeping environmental changes that altered the course of ...
River fire may refer to: Mendocino Complex Fire, a 2018 California wildfire that consisted of the smaller fires, the River Fire and the Ranch Fire; Cuyahoga River in Ohio, a river famous for catching fire in 1969; River Fire (2020), a wildfire in Monterey County, California; River Fire (2021), a wildfire in Placer and Nevada Counties, California
The ecologically minded "Cuyahoga" refers to the once heavily polluted Cuyahoga River that flows into Lake Erie at Cleveland, Ohio.The song includes the lyric we burned the river down, which refers to the several occasions (most famously in 1969) when the river actually caught fire.
"Cuyahoga" R.E.M. Life's Rich Pageant: 1986: About the once-heavily polluted Cuyahoga River; the lyrics reference when it caught fire in 1969, which became a watershed incident in the environmental movement. [3] "Dayton Ohio, 1903" Randy Newman: Sail Away: 1971 "Dreamy Bruises" Sylvan Esso: Sylvan Esso: 2014 "Escape from Ohio" Electric Six ...
I don't think the Cuyahoga is the only river to catch fire, just the most infamous. Is there any justification to there being a river fire article? If it's known by another name, I couldn't immediately find what it's called. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.254.80.115 04:37, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
Since the city's industrialization, the Cuyahoga River had become so affected by industrial pollution that it "caught fire" a total of 13 times beginning in 1868. [131] It was the river fire of June 1969 that spurred the city to action under Mayor Carl B. Stokes, and played a key role in the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972 and the ...