HALLOWEEN CAR TUNES:'MOONDANCE' VAN MORRISON - AT 3AM DO SONGS GET ANY BETTER?

Making a list of Halloween songs is a risky task- too many gimmick songs. Then there’s Moondance by Van Morrison- “Well it’s a marvelous night for a moondance, With the stars up above in your eyes, A fantabulous night to make romance, ‘neath the cover of October skies”. This isn’t about zombies,witches or ghosts-not even close....
In fact, this may be the best late night romance deal-closing song of all time.

This is such a deal-closer that if you’re a guy and you get her back to your place, put ‘Moondance’on and strike out… consider a bleak future as a strict practicing celibate-if Van didn’t work, you never had a chance.

The Halloween theme tells us that this song was featured in a great scene from An American Werewolf in London-the one where the "poor schmoe-soon to be raging homicidal werewolf" gets down and dirty with an incredibly attractive British nurse. Those 5 minutes of movie magic single-handedly defined this song as a classy, but carnal anthem for horny guys everywhere.

The movie had all the standard horror movie trappings-dismembered bodies, disemboweling, graphic werewolf transformation scenes but American Werewolf had a piece of musical history that is as timeless as the pyramids- the song Moondance. That brilliant ode to all activities real, fun and commited after midnight saved a B movie-in fact, Moondance launched American Werewolf into the land of legends.

Van Morrison wrote this incredible song in 1970. With lines like this “And all the leaves in the trees are falling, To the sound of the breezes that blow, And I’m trying to please to the calling, Of your heart strings that play soft and low, And all the night’s magic seems to whisper and hush, And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush”. Mere mortals could never come up with lines like that-but we can sure exploit them. So did John Landis.

Director John Landis checked out his dusty old record collection, found a classic album called Moondance in his pile of LPs, put it in a great scene in a forgettable monster movie and made cinematic history.

And thanks to that same legendary song many of us have made personal history.

For that we salute the god of 3 in the morning romance, the one, the only, Mr. Van “the Man" Morrison.