Music for Roctober - #21 - Van Morrison
Well, it's a marvelous night for a moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes
A fantabulous night to make romance
'Neeth the cover of October skies
And all the leaves in the trees are falling
To the sound of the breezes that blow
And I'm trying to please to the calling
Of your heart-strings that play soft and low.
We all know where this is going, right? That is what's so great about Van Morrison's "Moondance"; we know where he is singing himself, we know exactly what the song is about but he says it so well. Anyone remember the scene in American Werewolf in London with David Naughton and the Logan's Run girl? "Moondance" is playing in the background - great song selection. What wonderful overtly sexual song. I wish rap stars would take their cues from Van Morrison, but I digress.
"Moondance" appeared on Van Morrison's 1970 Moondance LP. . .BUT the single wasn't released until 1977 when it made it to #29 on the Billboard Charts. From there it grew on the world.
I found a great writeup on the recording of "Moondance" here. One part is particularly appropriate:
With the stars up above in your eyes
A fantabulous night to make romance
'Neeth the cover of October skies
And all the leaves in the trees are falling
To the sound of the breezes that blow
And I'm trying to please to the calling
Of your heart-strings that play soft and low.
We all know where this is going, right? That is what's so great about Van Morrison's "Moondance"; we know where he is singing himself, we know exactly what the song is about but he says it so well. Anyone remember the scene in American Werewolf in London with David Naughton and the Logan's Run girl? "Moondance" is playing in the background - great song selection. What wonderful overtly sexual song. I wish rap stars would take their cues from Van Morrison, but I digress.
"Moondance" appeared on Van Morrison's 1970 Moondance LP. . .BUT the single wasn't released until 1977 when it made it to #29 on the Billboard Charts. From there it grew on the world.
I found a great writeup on the recording of "Moondance" here. One part is particularly appropriate:
"'That was the sort of band I dig,' Morrison would
later say. 'Two horns and a rhythm section — they’re the type of bands I
like best.' And he also saw fit to produce himself for the first time,
commenting, 'No one knew what I was looking for except me, so I just
did it.'
'Not that he had a whole lot to say
during those sessions,' remarks Shelly Yakus, who engineered behind the
console in A&R’s Studio A. 'I remember him telling me to put more
bottom on his voice, but those were probably the only words he said to
me throughout the entire project! He was very quiet and really
introverted, yet when he sang it was a ‘Holy Shit! moment.'"
What a song:
What a song:
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