Friday Music

Following Van Morrison’s 1966 break-up with the band Them and Decca records this song arrived on the musical scene.

Likely his all-time signature song - Brown Eyed Girl was recorded on the Bang record label in 1967 and released the same year to ultimately peak at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.  Covered by too many artists to list this tune is ranked at 110 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.  It has also been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.         

Trivia – when the song was released the lyrics making love in the green grass were considered too suggestive for many radio stations and were edited for air play with laughin' and a-runnin', hey hey from a previous verse.           

Here are recordings of the original studio takes at Bang.  They include both the original release version of the song and what is considered the ‘alternate’ version.  

These are fun and I hope you enjoy them…..