Is Van Morrison a Born Again Believer
VAN MORRISON - DREAMING IN GOD
Imagine if a small city in a small part of the UK or Ireland (depending on the lottery of your nascence) not only produced ane of the icons of the stone genre but also a world class announcer who could write about it.
Stuart Bailie was assistant editor of NME at the height of Brit-pop 90s and has been accused of starting the Haven - Blur war by Noel Gallagher! He has written in every rock mag worth reading, too as books most Sparse Lizzy and the Northern Irish Troubles, even sleeve notes for U2.
One of the revelations of 75 Van Songs is that none of the higher up would take happened had it not been for his landlady while he was picking fruit in the south of France in 1983 making him mind to Van Morrison'south Madame George on a cassette in the kitchen.
Information technology was a conversion moment of sorts for Bailie. He writes in the Introduction "The songs of Van Morrison accept given me decades of joy and fascination. They take been companions through many life changes, instances of injure and homesickness, romance and reflection."
Part of me asks why it has taken so long for Stuart to finally write a book on Morrison. Another part of me thinks it might be better for the fact that it has been 37 years in the incubation. Almost four decades of Bailie listening, meditating and surmising on all of these songs.
And in some means that is what we get. It is most similar a volume of spiritual meditations. Janice and I took the opportunity in Kickstarter to be patrons of the volume and were asked for our favourite vocal. Our vocal is Someone Similar Y'all which I didn't even await to be in the volume.
Yet, there it is and with "our" song Stuart does what every page of the book does. Information technology is similar he pries the song open up and helps us hear, see and feel more:
"Someone Like You is the phonation of a pilgrim who has washed his searching and craves the illumination. He submits to u.s.a. that, finally, he can see the light, simply there's no elation in his vocalization. Information technology's a quiet consolation, although when he talks of the best days ahead of him, it figures that the load has been lifted."
It is beautiful and spiritual. Each entry is similar a sacred manuscript, like a cross between Leonard Cohen's Book Of Longing and Nick Hornby'due south 31 Songs with a wee slice of John O'Donohue sprinkled in. You could practise worse in your day than meditate on these reflections, listening to the song and taking a few minutes for quiet after.
Of course Stuart Bailie'southward particular forcefulness as well as his gift of writing is that he knows the city of Van Morrison. If anyone from wherever in the world wants to find the place of Van Morrison's inspiration and then Bailie takes us to the streets, churches, shipyards, windowsills and fleck shops.
The book ends in an other worldly style plumbing fixtures to the book and the work of Van Morrison. By seeming serendipity Bailie gets continued with the son of the human being who owned Davy'south Chipper on the Beersbridge Road equally featured in Sense Of Wonder . A photograph arrives of the Castlereagh Route in 1952. Stuart'due south keen middle finds and then many Morrison references in but one shot.
I have waited a long fourth dimension for Stuart Bailie to write a book about Van Morrison. It was worth the expect. Everything I hoped for… and a lot of spiritual insights across!
You tin can purchase 75 Van Songs in No Alibis Volume Store on Botanic Avenue, Belfast or on line at https://world wide web.musicglue.com/trouble-songs/products/75-van-songs
(I had the privilege of wishing Van Morrison Happy 75th Birthday when I did a Special Idea For The Solar day to mark the occasion on Skilful Forenoon Ulster...)
A joy to be on the radio to publicly say Happy 75th Birthday Van Morrison brought up in Hyndford Street, East Belfast. From Astral Weeks to last year'south Three Chords and The Truth y'all have created as qualitative a trunk of work as any of your peers. Van, you lot are up there with Bob Dylan and without you in that location would be no Bruce Springsteen.
I desire to thank you personally for a few things.
Firstly, making our wee ordinary places sound extraordinary… Ballystockart, Ardglass, Cyprus Avenue, Castlereagh Route, Hyndford Street, Davey's Chipper and the homo who played the saw exterior City Hall. Y'all make me proud of where I'1000 from.
Secondly, I want to give thanks you lot for being a spiritual companion. We all demand songs for the journey and songs like Total Force Gale, When Will I Ever Learn To Live In God, In the Garden and the contempo Transformation accept refreshed me and pushed me on in my journey following Jesus.
Stuart Bailie writes in his upcoming book 75 Van Songs well-nigh Van's song Sense Of Wonder that information technology makes the case "for beingness a receptive soul, most the prerogative to burn bright".
That is Van Morrison. A man built-in in east Belfast with exceptional gift from God who used it to give the world a sense of wonder, to phone call u.s.a. to being receptive souls to the transcendent and burn brighter than the ordinary around u.s..
American writer and Presbyterian minister Frederick Buechner defines our private vocations… the reason God made u.s.a.… equally the identify where our deepest gladness meets the world's deepest demand.
I take watched in the crowd every bit on a stage Van Morrison lived those moments of his deepest gladness. There's actually null similar information technology. He has battled the fame and music manufacture that his vocation hurled him into in the mid 60s when he just wanted to play saxophone on the weekend in a Downwards joint...
BUT he has used that deep gladness to call the world to await higher and seek to the find the eternal now. As he put information technology in his spoken word song Hyndford Street to Dream in God. Thank you sir, for sharing your vocation with us all. Happy 75th birthday!
As a music fan I take imagine romantically almost the places referred to in the piece of work of Springsteen, Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon among a plethora of others, though a cancelled flight at Newark drome took me onto Simon'south New Bailiwick of jersey turnpike and the reality wasn't likewise exciting! Belfast is blest with our own contemporary music proper noun place dropper Van Morrison. No matter where you get in the world someone has heard of Cypress Avenue. As a Presbyterian minister I used to call back I would be called to the Church with the Cypress Avenue street sign outside. It never happened! So a 24-hour interval or 2 earlier I was installed as the minister of Fitzroy I was listening to Madame George and at that place it was, "Ford and Fitzroy". Confirmed!
In his poem/song Hyndford Street Morrison travels to Fuscos in Holywood for Water ice Cream, name checks Beechie River, Abetta Parade, Orangefield, St. Donard's Church comes downwards from the Castlereagh Hills through Cregagh Glens, "to Hyndford Street, feeling wondrous and lit up inside/With a sense of everlasting life..." It is what Morrison has been doing since that iconic first solo record Astral Weeks, finding transcendence in the everyday familiar. In what he does and how he does it he is heading back by Irish poets like Kavanagh and Yeats to the Celtic Christianity centuries before; revealing the boggling in the everyday ordinary.
Morrison's Astral Weeks is mentioned in the same breath as Sgt Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club Band as maybe the best record of all time and where The Beatles in 1967 were singing near places in their native Liverpool, Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields, Morrison created Astral Weeks' incredible piece of verse and sound, vast and magical, from a tiny house in a gray and claustrophobic little street in Due east Belfast. Though it would accept him a few decades to name Hyndford Street specifically, Astral Weeks gives us Cypress Avenue, Fitzroy and Sandy Row.
Through the years Morrison has added many other spaces and icons to his catalogue of Belfast memories. Cherry-red Valley in the same Hyndford Street, the Orangefield of his schoolhouse days appears on Got To Go Back from No Method No Guru No Teacher so gets an unabridged songs called Orangefield on Avalon Sunset. In the title track of Sense of Wonder, a song in which Van sees himself as a bringer of a firey vision he is finding wonder in Gransha, Ballystockart Road, the Castle Picturehouse on the Castlereagh Road and the man who played the saw exterior the Metropolis Hall. There are also mentions for pastie
suppers down at Davy's Chipper, gravy rings, barnbracks, carriage wheels and snowballs, all brilliant and vital memories for Morrison himself and many of us who have called this metropolis home.
I had one of these magical moments at a concert in Vancouver where a Canadian vocalizer encored with Morrison'south Into The Mystic. There are no specific place names in this vocal but when he sang virtually hearing of the fog horn accident and knowing that it meant he would be coming abode I was on Belfast's Lough and tears started to seep. Thanks Van Morrison for giving our city streets a wonder that resonates in our ain souls and across the globe.
(photograph by Gary Burnett... for one of his Blues Nights... I thought it was as close equally I ever was to looking like Van... ha!)
There is little doubt that in Belfast at least this is Van Morrison Weekend . Van Morrison is an iconic music creative person, up there in legendary condition with Bob Dylan who he has played with and Bruce Springsteen who would have no trouble citing Morrison as a major influence. Van The Human has been making quality records for over 50 years and his first solo tape Astral Weeks is still recognised as one of the all time great albums.
AND… He'due south from eastward Belfast. Remembering that e'er does my center practiced! The same area of our city that gave the imagination of CS Lewis's Narnia gave usa Morrison'southward Sense of Wonder .
There is no Birthday concert every bit there was for Van'southward 70th at the end of the street he made famous - Cyprus Avenue . Maybe if it hadn't have been for Cornavirus!
Van Morrison will be omnipresent though. Hot Printing magazine already had had a few weeks of their Rave On Van Morrison serial where every nighttime on Youtube some other Irish gaelic creative person covers a Van song. If you have missed this please go lookout Gary Lightbody with Iain Archer and Miriam Kaufmann'due south Into The Mystic and Bronagh Gallagher's The Healing Has Begun are phenomenal and there are other swell covers by Duke Special, Damien Rice, Cara Dillon, Tim Wheeler… and so many more!
Stuart Bailie is marking the occasion too. Our best e'er stone journalist has well-nigh finished a volume called 75 Van Songs which takes 75 of Morrison's songs and has written his own insightful "reviews, appreciations and imaginative responses." There are extracts from the book available in the current edition of Northern Ireland's premier new Arts magazine Dig With It .
There will exist much more than I am sure.
Every bit a Van fan since I bought Cute Vision in 1982 I will be getting in on the human activity. At that place will be various blogs and reblogs hither on Soul Surmise.
Then on Lord's day morn I will be on Radio Ulster's Sunday Sequence at around 9.30am talking well-nigh the spiritual songs of Van that have meant well-nigh to me. I have to pick three songs and I am finding information technology difficult to cut them downward. There might as well be an extending blog on this theme!
And then our Fitzroy Sun Service going out at 11am on Fitzroy TV volition be have within it a few nods in tribute to Van. Our hymns will be influenced past hymns Van has recorded and Brian Houston will bring us a Van song to meditate upon after the benediction.
My sermon will bring in a Van thought too. In the John Paul Lederach and Angela Jill Lederach book When Blood and Basic Cry Out there is a chapter about John Paul using Van Morrison music in the long convalescence afterwards a serious motorcar crash. Some of Lederach's ideas virtually what Van does in his music volition come together with Jesus asking usa to remember his expiry and some of the struggles to go along the religion in Coronavirus times.
Then on Mon morn I will be back on Skillful Morning Ulster at 7.50am to practice a Van Morrison Special Thought For The Twenty-four hours on his actual birthday.
Then, from at present until Monday I will be able to list to Van and phone call information technology work!
On Monday I will exist plugging particularly the Low-cal in Van Morrison that we premiered on Fitzroy TV back in late June, with me talking about the spirituality of Van's piece of work and Brian Houston covering three of his songs. If you haven't already seen it yous tin can watch it HERE
Phew!
Van Morrison music has been full of the spiritual and transcendent since the very commencement. Every bit I speak about it in my new series on Fitzroy TV - Light From Stone Music - here is ane of ii Playlists of 20 songs I have compiled to back-trail that blog.
Hymns To The Silence
(from Hymns To the Silence)
In The Garden
(from No Guru, No Method, No Teacher)
Full Force Gale
(from Into The Music)
Give Me My Rapture
(from Poetic Champions Etch)
When Will I Ever Learn To Live In God
(from Avalon Sunset)
See Me Through
(from Enlightenment)
See Me Through Pt 2/Closer Walk With Thee
(from Hymns To The Silence)
When The Saints Go Marching In
(from Avalon Sunset palatial edition)
Beyond The Ritual
(from Keep It Simple)
Haunts Of Aboriginal Peace
(from Common One)
Aboriginal Of Days
(from A Sense of Wonder)
These Are The Days
(from Avalon Dusk)
Beautiful Vision
(from Cute Vision)
By His Grace
(from Hymns To The Silence)
The Spirit Will Provide
(from The Prophet Speaks)
Transformation
(from Roll With The Punches)
If I Ever Needed Someone
(from His Ring And The Street Choir)
When Ever God Shines His Light On Me
(from Avalon Sunset)
The Chief'south Eyes
(from A Sense Of Wonder)
Dweller By The Threshold
(from Cute Vision)
"There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places & desecrated places." Wendell Berry
Van Morrison has given a sacredness to the streets of Belfast and places all beyond Ireland. As I speak about it in my new series on Fitzroy TV - Light From Rock Music - here is one of two Playlists of 20 songs I have compiled to accompany that blog.
A Sense Of Wonder
(from A Sense of Wonder)
Brownish Eyed Daughter
(from Information technology'southward Too Late To End At present)
On Hyndford Street
(from Hymns to The Silence)
Republic of cyprus Avenue
(from Astral Weeks)
Into The Mystic
(from Moondance)
Cleaning Windows
(from Cute Vision)
Coney Island
(from Avalon Sunset)
Going Downwardly To Bangor
(from Keep Me Singing)
Northern Muse (Solid Ground)
(from Beautiful Vision)
Madame George
(from Astral Weeks)
Ane Irish Rover
(from No Guru, No Method, No Teacher)
Song Of Abode
(from Continue It Unproblematic)
Irish Heartbeat
(from Inarticulate Spoken language of the Middle)
Streets Or Arklow
(from Veedon Fleece)
Choppin' Woods
(from Down the Route)
Gotta To Go Dorsum
(fron No Guru, No Method, No Teacher)
Cry For Home
(from Inarticulate Spoken communication of the Center)
And Information technology Stoned Me
(from Moondance)
Orangefield
(from Avalon Dusk)
Mystic Of The East
(from Born To Sing: No Plan B)
On Sunday nighttime - June 28th 2020 going alive at 7pm - Fitzroy TV will put out a short vlog called Dreaming In God - Light From Van Morrison in which Brian Houston will sing some Van covers and I volition commentate on the spirituality in Van's work. This blog gives you the setting of Van Morrison'south place in my life...
I discovered Van Morrison at University. Cute Vision was released in the second term of my first yr. Two things drew me. Reviews spoke of Morrison's spirituality and Mark Knopfler, a musical hero of mine at the time, played on it. Those were ii similarities to Slow Train Coming that had converted me to Bob Dylan nearly a yr earlier.
From there it was a catch up on the twelve album released before Cute Vision. I apace fell in love with Moondance, Wavelength and Into The Music and got intrigued with Veedon Fleece, Common One and Astral Weeks . Astral Weeks took decades earlier becoming my very favourite and I would dare suggest ane of the nigh unique and vivid records of the 20th Century; unquestioningly a masterpiece.
I was then into Van that I was pretty sure that God would call me to exist minister of Bloomfield Presbyterian Church building which has the route sign for Cyprus Avenue exterior it. It wasn't to be. I ended at Fitzroy… oh hang on… "Downwards on Republic of cyprus Avenue/With a childlike vision leaping into view/Clicking, clacking of the high heeled shoe/ Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George" . Read to the end of the verse Steve!
Van Morrison hasn't always been understood in the stone music world. He is oftentimes labeled grumpy which I count as lazy journalism. Van Morrison is a securely introverted man who never envisaged when he set out in music that he would have to deal with stardom, glory and paparazzi invading his personal space. He but wanted to be a musician "bravado saxophone on the weekend/In a Downwardly joint".
So if grumpy is his defense against invasion into his privacy nosotros need to be more forgiving. Anyway, how could a grumpy man write the kind of cute romantic songs that Morrison has given u.s.a. - Moondance, Crazy Beloved, Tupelo Honey, Have I Told You Lately to Someone Like You, Conveying a Torch, In The Afternoon .
Someone Like You lot has always been Janice and my vocal. One of my rare romantic moments was when Have I Told You Lately That I Love You was on the radio and I phoned her, said aught, and only played the vocal.
In that location are 2 obvious things that grab my attention in Van Morrison's work. He is from Belfast for goodness sake. He is upwards there with Dylan, Springsteen, Mitchell, Cohen and Immature and he comes from my city. Indeed if you drinkable coffee enough in east Belfast yous might find him find him at a table near you.
Non only is he a Belfast artist but he has right from the very beginning of his work had this sense of identify. Even while in self exile in America in the 70s at that place were still those references to dwelling house. Belfast has non ever had a expert reputation across the globe but when yous listen to Van Morrison yous can only be intrigued by something sacred about our streets, rivers and cakes!
As I already stated the spiritual aspects of Morrison's work endeared me. I love using music as a style to attend my soul merely also equally a way for my faith to caress and collide with the world around me.
Van Morrison's piece of work is more of the sometime kind. He has never veered towards societal critique. Yet songs like In The Garden, Whenever God Shines His Light, Requite Me My Rapture and the two we will use on Sunday nighttime, Full Strength Gale and When Will I Ever Learn To Live in God are helpful resource in devotional disciplines.
Full Strength Gale was the song used equally an introit to my Installation service in Fitzroy sung as a choir piece in the style of The Voice Team's version on No Prima Donna: The Songs Of Van Morrison .
Total Force Gale was also a cardinal slice when nosotros congenital our unabridged morning service around Van Morrison'southward art on the eve of his 70th Birthday concert up on Cyprus Avenue and I preached on When Will We Ever Larn To Live in God .
On Sunday night I will exist asking what nosotros can spiritually acquire from Van Morrison's work and how we tin apply it to our daily walk of organized religion.
Brian Houston will be singing three Morrison songs, reinterpreting them in his own imaginative style and eeking out their deepest soul.
I am convinced that Van Morrison is equally happy about his vocation as he has been since he was playing The Maritime Bar in Belfast in the early on 60s.
My thoughts on Van Morrison's complicated relationship with the public in general and the press in particular is that a young Morrison only wanted to play his music. Nearly unfortunately for Van his musical vocation coincided with an explosion of pop music and his particular vocational genius got caught up in an industry that was not at all in keeping with his shy personality.
To be equally securely introverted, as Van Morrison seems to be, and and then go defenseless up in the popular circus is not a match made in heaven. Rather than accept swipes at Van Morrison's contrariness nosotros should be grateful that he didn't just give information technology all up and walk away as he threatened to afterwards Veedon Fleece in 1974.
Forty five year after that little flirt with retirement, in the mid 70s, Morrison is at present in his mid 70s and everything near his relationship with pop music is very unlike indeed. No longer does he take to fear his photograph on the front end cover of music magazines or the force per unit area of hitting singles. Aye, the odd journalist still tries to shoehorn inside his introverted mystery but fifty-fifty they are now few and far between.
Every bit a result, Morrison is having the musical fourth dimension of his life. He now plays smaller intimate venues like those he imagined he would be playing when he started out. Equally far as albums are concerned he can do what he wants, creating as much or equally lilliputian as his ain soul directs.
Hence, Iii Chords and The Truth is his sixth tape in four years. The last four records accept seen Morrison liberally mixing jazz and dejection covers, along with his own originals or re-workings of his classics. It all seemed free and easy, enjoyable for him and his fans. I wouldn't say I loved every song but I am glad of them.
Three Chords and The Truth is not part of that outpouring. It is almost a bookend, the other being the get-go of the recent six records, Keep Me Singing .
Like Keep Me Singing most of these songs are original Morrison songs but more that there is a different intention to the drove. This is very much a Van Morrison record in the vein of his very best. Indeed, you can hear echoes of near every era of Morrison's eclectic career.
There is the wonder on the Don Black co-write If We Await For Mountains . The opening song March Winds In February reminds me of Hard Nose The Highway . Nighttime Night Of The Soul could be a title from anything betwixt Beautiful Vision and The Healing Game . I can hear Them play Early on Days . Fame Volition Eat The Soul is that recurring them on his albums since the tardily 80s. Days Gone Past is a wonderful closer, equally he re-writes Auld Lang Syne and infuses it with Van transcendence.
There are a plethora of different shades of the Van Morrison muse are stretched correct across this tracklist. The return of Jay Berliner to the session players adds sublime guitar playing throughout.
Nobody In Charge is not my favourite song on the record but information technology is the most politically intriguing. Is this as political as Van has always been:
Politicians that waffle endlessly
People simply don't want to encounter
Getting' paid too much for screwin' up
don't you recall everyone'southward had enough?
At that place's nobody in accuse
At that we know, that we know well-nigh
There's nobody in accuse
Nobody seems to have any ascendancy
And speculation across the nation
Media implantation rules the day
Brainwash is easy, if everybody'due south lazy
Everything always looks so grey
This could exist about the fact Northern Republic of ireland's Local Associates has not met at Stormont in nigh three years. It could also be about the daily newscasts from outside a Brexit divided Westminster. Some of my American friends would say that it has wider connotations! Surely, that Morrison feels at freedom to surmise on such issues is a sign of his new sense of freedom.
Don't miss Van's humour either.. When he sings "Free State" in You Don't Understand it has local connotations in his Northern Irish homeland. The Free State is what my Granny and Van's parent'south generation called the Democracy Of Ireland.
He articulates it here with the wry Van humour that he used at Cocky Aid in Dublin in 1986 when he introduced new songs from No Guru, No Method, No Teacher by proverb that it would exist out "on the Twelfth of July!" Or in that little snippet of The Sash on I'll Tell Me Ma on his collaborative album with The Chieftains, Irish Heartbeat .
Three Chords and The Truth is not the most iconic album of Van Morrison's career or the 1 with the most hitting singles. To compare information technology in such means is to miss not only what Van Morrison is now doing and also what he e'er wished he had been doing. It is another wonderful record of inspirational music by a genius of the genre. It is a most satisfying listen.
Oh what a Van-fest! In this 3 Cd digipack CD box in that location is a treasure-trove of goodies.
Information technology is the kind of thing that I would be upwardly to with my Playlist series. On the dorsum of the original The Healing Game , which has not been remastered, we get the B-sides of singles from the time. So we have CD two which is a collage of songs from The Healing Game project and various other projects from the era.
So, if unlike me you lot oasis't already, you don't need to hoke out - CD singles, Sult, Good Rocking Tonight and The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers , John Lee Hooker's Don't Look Back and Lonnie Donegan's Muleskinner Dejection - because the Van tracks from them are hither.
On CD two there are three collaborations that bring some fantastic tunes. I've been specially loving the rocking rhythm and blues of his five songs with Carl Perkins. Iv of these have been previously unreleased and i of those My Angel is a co-write. This 2d disc has ten previously unissued songs including a Morrison original Didn't He Ramble and A Kiss To Build A Dream On made famous by Louis Armstrong in 1951.
There is more! The third disc is an absolutely pumping live testify from Montreux in July 1997. Just a few months after the release of The Healing Game the gear up list has vii songs from the record. This is the Morrison's few years with Brian Kennedy bringing backing vocals. Kennedy's singing added grace notes indeed. That high end voice gets close to angelic and when he and Morrison play off each other like a call and response, information technology is climactic and electric.
So, as I say, a treasure trove! In the finish though, what the three discs did for me was highlight the forcefulness of The Healing Game in Morrison's phenomenal body of piece of work. There are 6 varied versions of the title track here, three versions of Burn In The Abdomen and Sometimes We Cry . What these versions did was throw dissimilar hues across them and the entire anthology. Information technology rose upwardly my favourite Morrison records list for sure.
Then… and maybe contrived but… these dongs were recorded between the Northern Republic of ireland ceasefires and the Good Fri Agreement. Then when I hear: -
Don't look dorsum
To the days of yester-yr
You cannot live on in the past
Don't look back
An' I've known then many people
They're withal tryin' to live on in the past
Don't wait back
(Don't Expect Back - John Lee Hooker)
and
Here I am once more
Back on the corner once again
Back where I belong
Where I've always been
Everything the same
It don't e'er change
I'm back on the corner once more
In the healing game
(The Healing Game)
Morrison used withal some other audio-visual version of The Healing Game on a fundraising album Beyond The Bridge Of Promise for the victims of the 1998 Omagh bomb. Morrison always said it was a vocal from America, doo-wop singing on street corners. Healing is a spiritual affair here and Van was intrigued by it - The Healing Has Begun and Did Ye Get Healed just two other songs on the theme! Information technology's difficult as y'all listen to some of these versions to not see those corners as the streets of East Belfast where, any his geographical place, Van Morrison always seems close to.
We are yet needing that Healing on his Belfast streets in 2019!
Van Morrison has been often labeled a grumpy man. Much as I understand his gruff public persona attracting such a caricature, I believe that it is lazy judgement. I honestly believe that Sir Van is a very shy individual and is perhaps haunted past social anxiety. Consider that that is your personality and yous get hurled into the world of rock stardom. Information technology has not been piece of cake for our East Belfast son.
And do not exist lazy twice and advise that it was his choice. It wasn't. When Van started playing the blues around Belfast in the early 60s at that place was no stone music manufacture. He honestly, as he has said time and time again over 60 years, was thinking that he would be "bravado his saxophone at the weekend in that down articulation" . Glory and fame were never in his dreams or nightmares!
At present that is a Valentine's Day song introduction! Where are you going with this Stockman? Information technology is context! I often find it astonishing that someone nosotros can hastily gauge so grumpy tin have sent out into the globe the most amazing array of honey songs. From Dark-brown Eyed Girl to Moondance to Crazy Love to Tupelo Honey to Accept I Told Yous Lately to Someone Like You to Carrying a Torch to In The Afternoon . Goodness me but there would seem to be more evidence to call this man a natural built-in romantic than a gump!
For Janice and I, Van has always been our romantic vocaliser. Avalon Dusk was the album he released in 1989 the year we cruel in love and Have I Told You Lately was the single on the radio that well-nigh romantic of summers.
The other big song for us is Someone Similar Y'all from Poetic Champions Compose released two years earlier.
"I've been travellin' a hard road
Lookin' for someone exactly like you lot
I've been carryin' my heavy load
Waiting for the calorie-free to come
Shining through.
Someone like y'all makes it
All worth while
Someone similar y'all keeps m due east satisfied
Someone exactly 50 ike y'all."
I sang that last line a lot on the London underground in Baronial 1989.
Have I Told You Lately though is a rare and wonderful love song. Rare because of its acknowledgement of and thanks to God in a beloved song. The recommitment to the lover is enveloped in prayer and the realisation that the honey between lovers is a gift from a God who is love.
The Scriptures tell united states that nosotros can only dear because God commencement loved the states. Here nosotros have Van Morrison at his most romantic and spiritual in the same classic vocal. Y'all can meet why we were so drawn to it.
Janice will tell you that I am not much of a romantic. Possibly the most romantic affair I have ever done was phoning Janice when she was still working in London… and then… as she answered… saying nothing… and only… playing this song downwards the line. Information technology has been one of our songs always since! Before it became illegal, we were known to repeat that romantic moment information technology if information technology came on the automobile radio.
And tonight, no doubt i will sing, or at least say the words again…
"And it's yours and it'southward mine Have I told you lately that I love you lot
Like the lord's day
At the end of the day
We should give thanks and pray to the 1
Have I told you at that place's no i higher up you
Fill up my heart with gladness
Accept away my sadness
Ease my troubles, that's what y'all do"
Van Morrison? Call him what you similar. For us he'll be our romantic soundtracker!
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