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    SOMETHING SPECIAL IN THE AIR: THE STORY OF RECORDING VAN MORRISON’S BROWN EYED GIRL

    Jul 11, 2022 3 minutes

    Every good function band knows one thing: play ABBA’s Dancing Queen, Come On Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners or Van Morrison’s 1967 smash hit Brown Eyed Girl and the dancefloor will immediately become a sea of writhing bodies. Even Van, usually dismissive of the track, concedes: “If you can shake your ass it must be all right.”

    Brown Eyed Girl comes from a selection of tracks recorded in New York after the break up of his band, Them. Producer Bert Berns signed Morrison to his new label, Bang,

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