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Van - 1967 - Brown Eyed Girl. (Original Post)
OAITW r.2.0
Sep 17
OP
I think he hates the song. It was originally brown-skinned girl but he changed it so as not to appear racist.
twodogsbarking
Sep 17
#5
He's said he thinks he has about 300 songs that are better, that it was a "throwaway" song. Video interview
highplainsdem
Sep 17
#6
Figarosmom
(1,681 posts)1. Its van morrison night, huh?
Thank you , I do love his voice
OAITW r.2.0
(27,763 posts)2. I'm all over the place.
Check out Nicky Hopkin's isolated piano on Sympathy for the Devil.
https://music.
Figarosmom
(1,681 posts)3. Goes well with peter gunn im watching.
I think during the commercials I'll listen to Jackson brown
Response to Figarosmom (Reply #3)
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twodogsbarking
(12,029 posts)5. I think he hates the song. It was originally brown-skinned girl but he changed it so as not to appear racist.
highplainsdem
(51,805 posts)6. He's said he thinks he has about 300 songs that are better, that it was a "throwaway" song. Video interview
for Time magazine below, that section starting at 3:30.
And according to Wikipedia, he didn't get any royalties off it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Eyed_Girl
After finishing his contract with Decca Records and the mid-1966 break-up of his band, Them, Morrison returned to Belfast seeking a new recording company. When he received a phone call from Bert Berns, owner of Bang Records, who had produced a number of recordings with Them, he flew to New York City and hastily signed a contract (which biographer Clinton Heylin says probably still gives him sleepless nights).[4] During a two-day recording session starting 28 March 1967, he recorded eight songs intended to be used as four singles.[5] The recording session took place at A & R Studios and "Brown Eyed Girl" was captured on the 22nd take on the first day.[6] Of the musicians Berns had assembled, there were three guitarists Eric Gale, Hugh McCracken,[7][8] and Al Gorgoni plus bassist Russ Savakus and organist Garry Sherman, as well as Gary Chester on drums.[9] It was released as a single in mid-June 1967.[10]
Originally titled "Brown-Skinned Girl",[11] Morrison changed it to "Brown Eyed Girl" when he recorded it. Morrison remarked on the title change: "That was just a mistake. It was a kind of Jamaican song. Calypso. It just slipped my mind [that] I changed the title."[12] "After we'd recorded it, I looked at the tape box and didn't even notice that I'd changed the title. I looked at the box where I'd lain it down with my guitar and it said 'Brown Eyed Girl' on the tape box. It's just one of those things that happen."[13][14]
-snip-
Because of a contract he signed with Bang Records without legal advice, Morrison states that he has never received any royalties for writing or recording this song.[16] The contract made him liable for virtually all recording expenses incurred for all of his Bang Records recordings before royalties would be paid.[17] Morrison vented frustration about this unjust contract in his sarcastic nonsense song "The Big Royalty Check". Morrison has stated that "Brown Eyed Girl" is not among his favourite songs, remarking "it's not one of my best. I mean I've got about 300 songs that I think are better".[18]
Originally titled "Brown-Skinned Girl",[11] Morrison changed it to "Brown Eyed Girl" when he recorded it. Morrison remarked on the title change: "That was just a mistake. It was a kind of Jamaican song. Calypso. It just slipped my mind [that] I changed the title."[12] "After we'd recorded it, I looked at the tape box and didn't even notice that I'd changed the title. I looked at the box where I'd lain it down with my guitar and it said 'Brown Eyed Girl' on the tape box. It's just one of those things that happen."[13][14]
-snip-
Because of a contract he signed with Bang Records without legal advice, Morrison states that he has never received any royalties for writing or recording this song.[16] The contract made him liable for virtually all recording expenses incurred for all of his Bang Records recordings before royalties would be paid.[17] Morrison vented frustration about this unjust contract in his sarcastic nonsense song "The Big Royalty Check". Morrison has stated that "Brown Eyed Girl" is not among his favourite songs, remarking "it's not one of my best. I mean I've got about 300 songs that I think are better".[18]
That Time magazine interview - again, skip to 3:30 for those comments.
OAITW r.2.0
(27,763 posts)7. Can I also remit the following, in '74 or '75....I was at the Purple Onion or maybe, the Black Rose...can't remember.
But I do remember Van and Security crashing the line to get served... I think he had a show in Boston that night. He was a small bastard, by my standards.
ProfessorGAC
(69,178 posts)8. Did This In A Battle Of The Bands
It was a song on their list where i already knew the lyrics.
I played bass & sang this one.
OAITW r.2.0
(27,763 posts)9. Nice!
You channeled Van well!