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"Moondance" was recorded at the Mastertone Studio in New York City in August 1969, with Lewis Merenstein as producer. [5]The song is played mostly acoustic, anchored by a walking bass line (played on electric bass by John Klingberg), with accompaniment by piano, guitar, saxophones, and flute with the instruments played with a soft jazz swing.
Moondance is the third studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison.It was released on 27 January 1970 by Warner Bros. Records.After the commercial failure of his first Warner Bros. album Astral Weeks (1968), Morrison moved to upstate New York with his wife and began writing songs for Moondance.
Sir George Ivan "Van" Morrison OBE (born 31 August 1945) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician whose recording career started in the 1960s. Morrison's albums have performed well in the UK and Ireland, with more than 40 reaching the UK top 40, as well as internationally, including in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
Van Morrison's band in 1970 (from left to right): Alan Hand, Larry Goldsmith, Keith Johnson, Dahaud Shaar, Van Morrison, John Klingberg, Jack Schroer. For his new band Morrison brought back three musicians from the Moondance sessions: saxophonist Jack Schroer; guitarist John Platania and bassist John Klingberg.
A Rolling Stone review by Greil Marcus and Lester Bangs described the song's importance on the album as: "'Into the Mystic' is the heart of Moondance; the music unfolds with a classic sense of timing, guitar strums fading into watery notes on a piano, the bass counting off the pace.
Morrison first recorded the song in the summer of 1969 at the Warner Publishing Studio, New York with producer Lewis Merenstein.The track was rerecorded in the sessions from September to November of the same year at the A&R Recording Studios, 46th Street, New York to be released on Moondance.
This is the discography of Northern Irish singer Van Morrison. Morrison made his first recording playing saxophone on "Boozoo Hully Gully" with the International Monarchs in 1962. [ 1 ] His first recording session as lead singer/songwriter with Them was produced by Dick Rowe at Decca 's studio.
"These Dreams of You" is a song written by the Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison on his 1970 album Moondance. It was also included on his 1974 live album, It's Too Late to Stop Now . "The inspiration of "These Dreams of You", it seems, was a dream about an assassination attempt on Ray Charles , who then 'got up to do his best'.