"Dancing in the Moonlight (It's Caught Me in Its Spotlight)" is a song by the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy.
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Empathic Vibrations: How Music Allows Us to Understand One Another. In Which I Drank The Official Beer of Record Store Day 2017…A Month After Record Store Day. 12 Days Until I See GnR Live, And I Still Haven’t Fully Reviewed CHINESE DEMOCRACY. Wanna Read The Article That Got Me Into Guided By Voices?. Also, because it’s Van Morrison, the track is fun but in a really stuffy, intellectual way. Van Morrison’s song is more complex and has 100% more saxophone. Listening to all three songs, I think that King Harvest’s song is more akin to Thin Lizzy’s “Dancing In The Moonlight” in that it’s a simple, joyous ode to hanging out late at night, dancing. Perhaps I could have avoided all this confusion had someone just spent a little more money. I’m assuming “Moondance” sounds better because a superstar recorded it with a superstar’s recording budget. The production on the ’72 released “Dancing In The Moonlight” is scratchier and masks Robinson’s voice in a way that (at least to me) does make him sound like a younger Van Morrison. Though to be honest, a real Van Morrison fan would instantly spot the difference as I did when I listened to both songs back-to-back (800 times while writing this post). King Harvest’s lead singer, Dave Robinson, is a very fine vocalist and shares enough similarities to further compound the confusion. Except for me, the guy who 43 years later is walking around thinking it’s a damn Van Morrison song.īesides the obvious references to the moon, both songs share a similar jazzy feel. I think that’s a pretty cool story: guy writes song, gives it to his brother’s band, they have their one-hit. The brother of the their drummer, a guy named Sherman Kelly, wrote the song in 1969. That one-hit being “Dancing In The Moonlight.” According to a quick Internet search, the band was formed in Paris, France by a group of Americans. So who the hell was King Harvest? Well the reason why I’d never really heard of them (and you probably haven’t either) is that they were one-hit wonders. Anyway, I was wrong: “Dancing In The Moonlight” is actually a King Harvest song. In fact, I attribute my own person confusion to “Moondance.” Sure, I guess it was weird to think that Van Morrison had two moon-themed songs during this time period, but I’ve always found the guy kinda strange. “Dancing In The Moonlight” does have a very ‘70s Van Morrison-ish vibe and would have fit nicely on Van Morrison’s classic album MOONDANCE (though it came out two years later). At least, I always thought this was a Van Morrison song. 
No, I’m talking about the hit single from 1972 released by Van Morrison. Which is why my world was recently turned upside down by Pandora recently with “Dancing in the Moonlight.” First of all, please don’t confuse this song with the fantastic Thin Lizzy song “Dancing In The Moonlight (It’s Caught Me In It’s Spotlight)” off their classic 1977 album BAD REPUTATION. When a new/old song hits my radar I feel the thrill of discovery I’ve mostly lost while listening to classic rock radio **. I sometimes feel like Alexander The Great, sitting alone with no more worlds to conquer. And though I come across like a smug professor, I actually really enjoy the (albeit rare) occasions where I do not recognize a song or artist. I bring this up because recently, I was wrong. Unlike me, she didn’t fill her head with useless musical trivia and is unable to name both the song title and artist (and sometimes even the album) to every random classic rock castaway. When driving together, I frequently drive my wife nuts playing the “what song is this?” game. I’m sure I’ve bragged about it before, but I have a near-supernatural ability to recall the names of songs.
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