10 tracks
Side one "And It Stoned Me" "Moondance" "Crazy Love" "Caravan" "Into the Mystic" Side two "Come Running" "These Dreams of You" "Brand New Day" "Everyone" "Glad Tidings"

10 tracks
Side one "And It Stoned Me" "Moondance" "Crazy Love" "Caravan" "Into the Mystic" Side two "Come Running" "These Dreams of You" "Brand New Day" "Everyone" "Glad Tidings"

"Moondance" is a popular song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and is the title song on his 1970 album Moondance.

Morrison did not release the song as a single until November 1977, seven and a half years after the album was released. It reached the Billboard Hot 100, charting at #92. The single's B-side, "Cold Wind in August", had been released in the same year, on his latest album at the time, A Period of Transition.

"Moondance" is the song that is most frequently played by Van Morrison in concert.

"Moondance" was recorded at the Mastertone Studio in New York City in August 1969, with Lewis Merenstein as producer.

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. It's a song about autumn, the composer's favorite season. Towards the end of the song, Morrison imitates a saxophone. The song also features a piano solo, played by Jeff Labes, which is immediately followed by an alto saxophone solo by Jack Schroer. The song ends with a trill on the Flute during the cadenza that fades out. Schroer's solo is often noted as one of the most influential saxophone solos in popular music. The scale used in Schroer's "Moondance" solo is Aeolian A (A, B, C, D, E, F, G) or could simply be considered as a C major scale and is played primarily over a D minor to A minor vamp that resolves via a sharp V (♯5 = F⁷) to natural V (5 = E^7♯9) dominant chord.

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