Moondance is the third solo album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It was released on February 28, 1970 on Warner Bros. Records and peaked at #29 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart.
The album's musical style blends R&B;, folk rock, country rock, and also jazz (most obviously on the title track).
The single released was "Come Running" with "Crazy Love" as the B-side, which peaked at #39 on the Pop Singles chart. "Moondance", as a sin...
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Moondance is the third solo album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It was released on February 28, 1970 on Warner Bros. Records and peaked at #29 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart.
The album's musical style blends R&B;, folk rock, country rock, and also jazz (most obviously on the title track).
The single released was "Come Running" with "Crazy Love" as the B-side, which peaked at #39 on the Pop Singles chart. "Moondance", as a single was not released until 1977 and peaked at #92.
Moondance was critically acclaimed when first released and has proven to be Morrison's most famous album, often appearing on many lists of best albums of all time and among other awards, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. In 2003, it was ranked #65 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
Van Morrison began writing the songs for Moondance about ten months after the release of Astral Weeks. With the arrangements for the music only in his head,...
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