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Van Morrison At The Movies – Soundtrack Hits
''Van Morrison at the Movies – Soundtrack Hits'' is a compilation album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 2007 comprising 19 songs as featured in various movies. The album was released on 12 February 2007 in the United Kingdom and 13 February 2007 in the United States. On the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200, the album debuted at No. 35, selling about 29,000 copies in its first week, Billboard.com, 21 February 2007. The album also debuted at No. 17 on the UK Top 75 Album Charts. Songs All of the songs on the album had been previously released by Morrison, and most were recorded by him before being used in a movie, except for one '' |
Van Morrison
Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945), known professionally as Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose recording career spans seven decades. He has won two Grammy Awards. As a teenager in the late 1950s, he played a variety of instruments such as guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for several Irish showbands, covering the popular hits of that time. Known as "Van the Man" to his fans, Morrison rose to prominence in the mid 1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B and rock band Them. With Them, he recorded the garage band classic " Gloria". Under the pop-oriented guidance of Bert Berns, Morrison's solo career began in 1967 with the release of the hit single "Brown Eyed Girl". After Berns's death, Warner Bros. Records bought out Morrison's contract and allowed him three sessions to record ''Astral Weeks'' (1968). While initially a poor seller, the album has become regarded as a classic. ''Moondance'' (1970) e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
These Are The Days (Van Morrison Song)
"These Are the Days" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and released on his 1989 album '' Avalon Sunset''. It was released as the B-side of the single with " Orangefield" as the A-side. Composition The opening verse of the song is a recurring factor in Morrison's music and lyrics, the belief that the predominant sense of enjoyment and appreciation of life is to be found in the present moment: Biographer John Collis writes that this final song pulls together all the concerns of the album: Other releases "These Are the Days" replaces " Caravan" as an iTunes bonus track, on Morrison's 2007 compilation album ''Van Morrison at the Movies – Soundtrack Hits''. In the media "These Are the Days" was featured in the 1995 movie, ''Nine Months'', starring Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore. Personnel *Van Morrisonvocals, guitar *Arty McGlynnguitar *Neil Drinkwateraccordion, piano *Clive Culbertsonbass guitar *Roy Jones, Dave Earlydrums, percussion *Katie K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moondance (Van Morrison Song)
"Moondance" is a song recorded by Northern Irish singer and songwriter Van Morrison and is the title song on his third studio album ''Moondance'' (1970). It was written by Morrison, and produced by Morrison and Lewis Merenstein. Morrison did not release the song as a single until September 1977, seven and a half years after the album was released. It debuted two months later where it reached #92, on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and #91 on the US ''Cash Box'' Top 100 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 Van Morrison plays most frequently in concert. Composition and recording "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, saxo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clean And Sober
''Clean and Sober'' is a 1988 American drama film directed by Glenn Gordon Caron and starring Michael Keaton as a real estate agent struggling with a substance abuse problem. This film served as Keaton's first dramatic departure from comedies. The supporting cast includes Kathy Baker, M. Emmet Walsh, Morgan Freeman, Luca Bercovici and Tate Donovan. Ron Howard, who previously directed Keaton in the comedies '' Night Shift'' (1982) and '' Gung Ho'' (1986), served as co-producer. Plot Daryl Poynter is a successful but self-destructive Philadelphia real estate salesman who is addicted to cocaine. He embezzles $92,000 of his company's money from an escrow account and then loses $52,000 to his addiction and the stock market. Waking up one morning next to a woman who suffered a heart attack from a cocaine overdose, he tries to cover up the drug use, but the police make it clear that they know what happened. There is also the matter of the company's money. Daryl goes to the airpor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domino (Van Morrison Song)
"Domino" is a hit song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It is the opening track of his fourth studio album, ''His Band and the Street Choir''. This song is Morrison's personal musical tribute to New Orleans R&B singer and pianist Fats Domino. It was released by Warner Bros. Records in October 1970 as the first of three singles from the album. It reached number nine on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 charts. As of 2021, "Domino" remains Morrison's highest-charting single ever, surpassing Morrison's signature song "Brown Eyed Girl", which had charted at number 10 in 1967. Recording and composition Morrison had written the song several years before it was released in 1970. With Lewis Merenstein as producer, it was recorded on three takes dating back to sessions in autumn 1968, at Warners Publishing Studio in New York City. Another eight takes of the song were recorded during several sessions in 1969 at the same studio and again with Merenstein as producer. The ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queens Logic
''Queens Logic'' is a 1991 American ensemble coming-of-age comedy-drama film from Seven Arts Pictures starring Kevin Bacon, Linda Fiorentino, Joe Mantegna, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Malkovich, Ken Olin, Chloe Webb and Tom Waits. It was directed by Steve Rash. Synopsis This film depicts a cohort of Astoria, Queens working-class, now-thirtysomething childhood neighborhood friends confronting their history together and their future, while behaving both like children and mature adults, and both deceiving and revealing. Ray, the central character, and his childhood friends Al, Dennis and Vinny struggle with issues of commitment in their romantic relationships. Eliot is a gay, later friend who roomed with all of them in a two bedroom apartment as adults and is lonely but dislikes "camp" men. Al and his wife Carla are having serious marital issues, mainly due to his happy go lucky, immature personality. Ray is engaged to Patricia, a wary hairdresser, but he is scared of the effect the mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pope Of Greenwich Village
''The Pope of Greenwich Village'' is a 1984 American crime black comedy film directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page, Kenneth McMillan and Burt Young. Page was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her two-scene role. The film was adapted by screenwriter Vincent Patrick from his novel of the same name. Plot In an Italian neighborhood of Greenwich Village, cousins Charlie, a maître d'hôtel with aspirations of someday owning his own restaurant, and Paulie, a schemer who works as a waiter, have expensive tastes but not much money. Paulie gets caught skimming checks, and he and Charlie are both fired. Now out of work and in debt, Charlie must find another way to pay his alimony, support his pregnant girlfriend Diane, and try to buy a restaurant. Paulie comes to Charlie with a seemingly foolproof robbery idea involving a large amount of cash in the safe of a local business. Charlie reluctantly ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile)
"Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)" is a song written and performed by Van Morrison and featured as the opening track on his sixth studio album, ''Saint Dominic's Preview''. It was released by Warner Bros. in July 1972 as the first of three singles from the album and charted at number sixty-one on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Both the music and lyrics are inspired by rhythm and blues singer Jackie Wilson and his song "Reet Petite", which is directly quoted in the song. "Jackie Wilson Said" was covered by Dexys Midnight Runners on their album '' Too-Rye-Ay'' and reached number five on the UK Singles Chart when released in 1982. It has also been covered by several other artists. In 2021, Morrison's original version reached #1 on the Ireland radio airplay chart. Van Morrison's version Recording and composition The first known recording of "Jackie Wilson Said" was in January 1972 at singer and musician Lee Michaels' studio in Mill Valley, California. For this earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Morning Vietnam
''Good Morning, Vietnam'' is a 1987 American war comedy film written by Mitch Markowitz and directed by Barry Levinson. Set in Saigon in 1965, during the Vietnam War, the film stars Robin Williams as a radio DJ on Armed Forces Radio Service, who proves hugely popular with the troops, but infuriates his superiors with what they call his "irreverent tendency". The story is loosely based on the experiences of AFRS radio DJ Adrian Cronauer. Most of Williams' performances that portrayed Cronauer's radio broadcasts were improvisations. The film was released by Buena Vista Pictures (under its Touchstone Pictures banner) to critical and commercial success; for his work in the film, Williams won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. The film is number 100 on the American Film Institute's " 100 Years...100 Laughs" list, containing 100 movies co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild At Heart (film)
''Wild at Heart'' is a 1990 American black comedy romantic crime film written and directed by David Lynch and starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Willem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton, and Isabella Rossellini. Based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Barry Gifford, it tells the story of Sailor Ripley (Cage) and Lula Pace Fortune (Dern), a young couple from Cape Fear, North Carolina, who go on the run from Lula's domineering mother and the gangsters she hires to kill Sailor. Lynch was going to produce, but after reading Gifford's book, he decided to write and direct as well. He did not like the ending of the novel and thus decided to change it to fit his vision of the main characters. ''Wild at Heart'' is a road movie which includes allusions to '' The Wizard of Oz'' and Elvis Presley and his movies. Early test screenings for ''Wild at Heart'' had a poor reception; Lynch estimated that 300 people walked out of an early screening. On release, the film had mixed critic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baby, Please Don't Go
"Baby, Please Don't Go" is a traditional blues song that was popularized by Delta blues musician Big Joe Williams in 1935. Many cover versions followed, leading to its description as "one of the most played, arranged, and rearranged pieces in blues history" by French music historian Gérard Herzhaft. After World War II, Chicago blues and rhythm and blues artists adapted the song to newer music styles. In 1952, a doo-wop version by the Orioles reached the top ten on the R&B chart. In 1953, Muddy Waters recorded the song as an electric Chicago-ensemble blues piece, which influenced many subsequent renditions. By the early 1950s, the song became a blues standard. In the 1960s, "Baby, Please Don't Go" became a popular rock song after the Northern Irish group Them recorded it in 1964. Jimmy Page, a studio guitarist at the time, participated in the recording session, possibly on rhythm guitar. Subsequently, Them's uptempo rock arrangement also made it a rock standard. AC/DC and Aer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Outsiders (film)
''The Outsiders'' is a 1983 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The film is an adaptation of the 1967 novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton and was released on March 25, 1983, in the United States. Jo Ellen Misakian, a librarian at Lone Star Elementary School in Fresno, California, and her students were responsible for inspiring Coppola to make the film. The film is noted for its cast of up-and-coming stars, including C. Thomas Howell (who garnered a Young Artist Award), Rob Lowe, in his feature film debut, Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, and Diane Lane. The film helped spark the Brat Pack genre of the 1980s. Dillon would also star in two more films based on Hinton novels: ''Tex'' (1982) with Estevez and Coppola's ''Rumble Fish'' (1983) with Lane. Estevez wrote and starred in the Hinton adaptation '' That Was Then... This Is Now'' (1985). The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, most notably ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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