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"Bulbs" was first recorded, with different lyrics, at the recording session for the 1973 album, Hard Nose the Highway, released in 1973. [4] After the first recording session for Veedon Fleece' , "Bulbs" was re-cut at Mercury Studios in New York City in March 1974, along with " Cul de Sac ", to give it a more rock feeling.
The lyrics also refer to Jesus walking down by Avalon — an allusion by William Blake with the lines: "And did these feet in ancient time/Walk upon England's mountain green?" The lyrics verge between several layers of consciousness but always return to the central occurrence of a holiday in the country that the singer spent with his sweetheart ...
Guest artists were Candy Dulfer, John Lee Hooker, Junior Wells and Jimmy Witherspoon as well as Morrison's daughter, Shana Morrison. James Hunter and Brian Kennedy helped out with the vocals and Georgie Fame was also present. The June 2008 reissued and remastered version of the album contains a live take of the Morrison song "Cleaning Windows".
Someone like You (Van Morrison song) Sometimes We Cry; Spanish Rose; Stand and Deliver (Eric Clapton song) (Straight to Your Heart) Like a Cannonball;
"Someone Like You" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and recorded for his seventeenth studio album, Poetic Champions Compose (1987). It has become a wedding and film classic and the song subsequently furnished the framework for one of Morrison's most popular classics and love ballads , " Have I Told You Lately ...
"It's Hard to be Humble" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Mac Davis from his LP, Hard To Be Humble. It became an international hit in the spring of 1980. A version by T.R. Dallas became a Top 20 hit in Ireland during the fall of the year. The song was covered by Rolf Harris in 1980 and Willie Nelson in 2019.
The song roughly describes traveling on the road, emigration and homecoming. The lyrics are sparse and added lightly, accenting the melody of the song. "Cul de Sac" is performed in 3/4 time. [2] An alternate version was released in 2008, with slightly different lyrics: [3]
Enlightenment is the twentieth studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison.It was released in 1990 and reached No. 5 in the UK charts and "Real Real Gone" charted at No. 18 in Mainstream Rock Tracks.