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Name: Keno
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Subject: RE: Van Morrison
Date: Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Time: 4:01:39 AM
Remote Address: 97.107.69.29
Message ID: 320287
Parent ID: 320282
Thread ID: 320281
I suggest you get to know Van the Man a bit more, he's worth it! Yeah, they both specialize in writing soft rock songs, the difference is Paul specializes in using mainly his acoustic guitar in his songs while with Van, he has more of a Jazzy sound to his music. I'm not really into Jazz at all (for the most part), yet I love Van. The thing about him is he also has a ton of hits, just like Simon has, but many don't realize that's his music... I had some friends over last winter for the day and was playing CDs and when his greatest hits CD (really more a compilation album, The Essential Van Morrison) came on, one friend said to me, "Who's this? I've heard this song years ago and remember it". She ended up saying that for several songs on this double CD that I was playing, as it is really more a look back on a lot of his music all combined in one, more than anything else. I recalled several years ago, long before this LP came out, I had Sirius radio on and they played "Hear Comes the Night", a song I recalled from back the mid '60s that I hadn't heard in decades and thought to myself, who played this?, since they never said who it was. Then a few weeks later I'm on the computer working and it comes on again, so I looked it up and it's Van's old band, Them!, which was a garage rock band (with then session guitar man Jimmy Page playing lead guitar on this number as a guest). But no question, Van has that voice you can't miss, just didn't realized it was one of his old band's hit singles playing. I used to think I only knew the song "Gloria" by them (more so thanks to the great Jimi Hendrix cover of it), but it turned out I knew several of their hits, which were all written by Morrison, other than HCTN. But on that CD I just noted, there's 38 songs, and he wrote all of them but 2, again including HCTN, which was written by his producer Bert Berns, who was yet another guy who most don't realize wrote a ton of hit songs in his short life for so many others, including the Beatles' cover of "Twist and Shout", and Janis Joplin's first hit single with Big Brother, "Piece of My Heart".
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