Sunday, October 26, 2014

Sunday Morning With Van Morrison

Moondance.  The song no other singer has ever covered as well as Van Morrison originally sang.   Moondance may be the first Van Morrison song you remember hearing.  Was it?  Or was Brown Eyed Girl?




If you performed a song at every concert for decades, you 'd probably change it up, if for no reason just to end the boredom doing the same thing over and over and over.  Van does that, and the changes almost  always move a song away from rock and into jazz or blues.  Here's a newer, and far more jazzier version of Moondance.



Have a blessed Sunday!

19 comments:

Shouting Thomas said...

Great tune.

I've played it hundreds of times. Gotta have it in your back pocket for when the audience inevitably calls it out.

Unknown said...

Top of the Morning!

ndspinelli said...

Haz must get a commission.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

A nice comfortable 70 degrees here in Florida.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

NFL Football in London. didn't that fail miserably before?

ndspinelli said...

All 3 games this year @ Wembley are sellouts

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

About two weeks ago, there was this little, old black lady who was a cashier at Home Depot. I struck up a mini-conversation with her, nice guy that I am.

At the end of our transaction, she offered me her hand while wishing me a blessed day. I'm not at all religious, and I really didn't want to touch her, but I took her hand, anyway, nice guy that I am.

About a week later I came down with warts on my hand, nice guy that I am.

Fortunately for me, our Savior, Jesus Christ our Lord, saw fit to make sure I had Compound-W in the medicine cabinet, nice Guy that He is.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

All 3 games this year @ Wembley are sellouts

The NFL selling out to London... that's what small businesses at those home teams are calling it.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

(1) My wife wants me to add that she now has warts on her hand as well, nice gal that she is.

(2) Watched some UEFA last week. First rate play. Every bit as good as Premier League.

MLS? Not so much.

(3) That said, I had a couple of these not too long ago.

Tasty! Nice booster club that it is.

AllenS said...

Check out Candy here


Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I should hasten to add that getting warts because you shook someone's hand is exactly the same thing as dropping dead from Ebola because you tried to save lives.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

Without consulting the internet, I'm just going to assume that absolutely none of Ms Dulfer's albums have titles like "Candy's Sweet Sax" or "Candy Dulfer Blows for You."

chickelit said...

I'm pretty sure I heard "Brown-Eyed Girl" first. But for sure it was through an AM car radio, probably manufactured by Philco after Ford bought them.

Trooper York said...

The first Van Morrison song I ever heard was "Wild Night."

When people think of Van the Man they naturally think of "Brown Eyed Girl" or "Moondance" or even "Tupelo Honey." But he has so many other great songs like "Into the Mystic" and "Crazy Love" and "Jackie Wilson Said" and "Cleaning Windows." You really cheat yourself if you only have the first three on your Ipod.

Michael Haz said...

AllenS - Thanks for that link. I had forgotten that Candy Dulfer recorded that tune with Dave Stewart.

I had a workmate who named her newborn daughter Lily because of that song. Great interaction between to superb jazzists.

Swifty Quick said...

The NFL, or at least a faction within the NFL, wants a franchise in London. They've been angling for this for years. This is part of that. Fanbase-wise I think it would work. There's already one there, and it would grow from there. The problem is regular season scheduling.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Thanks. I've always been a fan of hers.

The black guy ("PeeWee"?) was pretty good also.

As long as there wasn't a Kenny G in the line-up.

Shouting Thomas' music reminds me of Kenny G.

AllenS said...

Do you like the theme song for The Good the Bad and the Ugly?

Check this out

There are some talented people out there.

john said...

Great.

Candy Dulfer has been on the top 10 list in the PBRFS* for some time. I was thinking no one else knew her and because of that she was a good trivia question.

Well, good for Haz for calling her out.

*Pancho Barnes Real Feminist Society is dedicated to celebrating lesser-known women who were busy accomplishing great things. The list is growing slowly and for the time being seems to be dominated by avaitrices and musicians. No academics on the list.