Van Morrison - Moondance

This romantic tune by Van Morrison is named after the album of the same title, Moondance. It was released on January 27, 1970. Morrison moved to upstate New York with his wife to write songs for Moondance. There, he met the musicians that would record the album with him at New York City's A & R Studios in 1969. The album found Morrison abandoning the abstract folk jazz compositions of Astral Weeks in favour of more formally composed songs, which he wrote and produced entirely himself. Its lively rhythm and blues/rock music was the style he would become most known for in his career. The music incorporated soul, jazz, pop, and Irish folk sounds into songs about finding spiritual renewal and redemption in worldly matters such as nature, music, romantic love, and self-affirmation.