Clair deLune, Moonlight Serenade, Tonight Tonight, others?

March 15 2014 | lee martell

[GOP Poet]

lovely. thank you for the post.

[beaversmom]

Good post and topic. I’m an **EXTREME** night owl...tonight I might have to get into bed early...at least by two. :) Anyway, I have been since I was little. I used to stay up and watch the Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder when I was just a grade schooler. It’s just me and I will always be this way. Anyway, I associate the night with dark, sad, quiet, lonely, reflective, energized, inspired, life, passion. creative and my musical tastes often reflect dark and sad, etc.

These are a few songs, other than Starry, Starry Night and Stardust which were already mentioned, that I have on my homepage that have night in the title (And I do love Nights in White Satin but don’t have that on my home page for some reason):

New Order live, 1985, ‘This Time of Night’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9OCB69KwpU

The Ray Noble Orchestra
and Al Bowlly
Midnight, the Stars, and You!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ9aT-Wa_tE

Cold Is The Night - The Oh Hello’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDdV_x513dc

Sometime Around Midnight (Majordomo Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKEu3EmBCzQ&;

And here are a few that remind me of night and dark, sad, quiet, mysterious. I’m sure I’m leaving out a ton in both categories:

I **LOVE** all the dark, night images used in the Rachel’s song video.
Rachel’s Song by Vangelis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja0L82_Gq7M

Vangelis - West Across The Ocean Sea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5LkUIQ5go8

Great star images in this one:
The Church - Under The Milky Way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA54NBtPKdI

The Doors - Riders On the Storm (Remastered HD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DED812HKWyM

Simon & Garfunkel Sound Of Silence Lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLfCnGVeL4

[lee martell]

Wow, Thanks for sharing some of your favorites. This is not night related, but closer to Symphonic Goth, a phrase I just made up. You may be familiar with The Cure, the group from England, I never get tired of a particular album and title song called “Disintergration”, or their other album title song ‘The Kiss; And let’s not forget Joni Mitchell’s album Heijera, which has Song For Sharon, and Amelia.

[beaversmom]

Yes, I like the Cure! I don’t know a whole lot of their things, but I know a few and I actually need to get a couple more up on my FR page that a friend shared with me...I just have one up right now. And I love that term you made up...symphonic goth.

Wow, there is so music out there that I don’t know. Not familiar with Mitchell but I do know her name. I’ll have to look those up.

Thanks for your reply and post.

[beaversmom]

Sorry...two more that make me think of the night:

I used to listen to this one as a little girl...listening to brother’s album:
Don’t Fear The Reaper - BLUE OYSTER CULT - Official Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtoK2CSTehQ

Queensryche - Silent Lucidity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhat-xUQ6dw

[Gene Eric]

Nice choices but too flowery for me. I think the Russians were the best in the romantic classics. Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin are my domestics favs (in the romantic genre.)

[Jimmy Valentine]

“Werewolves of London” - Warren Zevon

[Dark Knight]

The soundtrack to “An American Werewolf in London” only had songs to do with the moon, and from the IMDB blurb Werewolves of London could not be obtained though they tried for the movie.

Blue moon Bobby Vinson, Sam Cooke, The Marcels (separate versions by all)
Moondance Van Morrison
Bad Moon on the Rise CCR

Interesting sound track. Good werewolf movie. And the moon is always a central theme.

DK

[smalltownslick]

Night People - Aoussaint Hangin’ out, lookin’ at each other, waitin’ for something to happen

Moonride - Chris Connor

The Rays did a lovely vocal of Claire de Lune called Magic Moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDw5LP0NhM0

[smalltownslick]

Wow, somebody else lost some letters earlier - I just lost some, too. That’s supposed to say Allen Toussaint

[smalltownslick]

I heard an incredible version of Summer Nights by Darlene Love and Lou Christie.

[Sirius Lee]

There is one exception, although this was recorded when he was still with Genesis.

"Mad Man Moon" is a better Genesis song, and more in line with the lune theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn2CrLfHuGE

[smalltownslick]

That was Brook Benton. There is also a beautiful duet by Conway Twitty and Sam Moore.

[Yardstick]

Neil Young, Harvest Moon:

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=o-4dlJRYHGg

Man what a pretty song.

[cymbeline]

Rachmaninoff #2 - I listen to that every day at work

[Fiji Hill]

Are You Lonesome Tonight?--Vaughn De Leath (1927)

Moonlight and Roses--Waring's Pennsylvanians (1926)--my mother liked to sing this song

Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day--Bing Crosby (1931)

Moonlight on the Colorado--Dick Robertson & His Collegians (1930)--my great aunt loved this song

Midnight, the Stars, and You--Ray Noble & His Orchestra (vocal refrain by Al Bowlly) (1934)--featured on the John Batchelor radio show

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

It’s hard to even think about Clair de Lune without thinking of Victor Borge.

[lee martell]

I’ll add that to my list of “Must Investigate.”

[bravo whiskey]

i stumbled across blackmore’s night a few months ago. really like them FIRES AT MIDNIGHT

[Guardian Sebastian]

Stardust, Willie Nelson and In Dreams, Roy Orbison.