Van Morrison was born George Ivan Morrison on August 31st 1945 in Belfast Northern Ireland. Van got his interest in music from his father’s record collection, said to be the largest record collection in the providence of Ulster Scots at the time. He grew up listening to Ray Charles, Muddy Waters, Lead belly, Hank Williams, Charlie Parker and Woody Guthrie. Although I consider him to be Classic rock, he would be also be listed as Blues, Folk, Blue eye soul (White Soul) and Jazz among others. For me his voice just draws you in and keeps you hanging on every word as if your life depended on it, and lets face it some of his stuff provided allot of couples with some very nice “make out” sessions when they were younger and now if they are lucky enough.
His music is the type gives you that warm good feeling inside, you either sway to his grooves or to toe tap along with his faster beats.
Van Morrison had 5 top 40 hits and has released 34 Albums, his last being Born to Sing: No plan B in 2012 which debuted at #10 on Billboards top 200 Albums. His Album Moondance is in the #65th spot on the Rolling Stone Magazines top 500 Albums of all time.
If you don’t have these songs in your personal music library you can download them or you can listen and see the Videos for free by heading over to my youtube Channel and click on the ” Play list #6 - Van Morrison” to hear all these songs. www.youtube.com/user/fatdog14 feel free to leave feedback here and on the youtube site. Next Week we tune the Way-Back dial to My all time Favorite Beatles songs. See you next time when we spotlight The Beatles.
Here are my top 10 favorite Van Morrison songs
Jackie Wilson Said - 1972
Moon Dance 1970
Bright Side of the Road - 1979
Brown Eyed Girl - 1967
Into The Mystic - 1970
Crazy Love - 1970
Wild Night - 1971
And It Stones Me - 1970
Domino - 1970
Precious Time - 1999
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