And It Stoned Me

And It Stoned Me

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Name = And It Stoned Me


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Artist = Van Morrison
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Album = Moondance
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Released = February 1970
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Genre = R & B/Country rock
Length = 4:30
Writer = Van Morrison
Composer = Van Morrison
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Producer = Van Morrison and Lewis Merenstein
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#"And It Stoned Me"
#"Moondance"
#"Crazy Love"
#"Caravan"
#"Into the Mystic"
#"Come Running"
#"These Dreams of You"
#"Brand New Day"
#"Everyone"
#"Glad Tidings"
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"And It Stoned Me" is the opening song on "Moondance" the third solo album of Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison which was released in 1970.

Van Morrison, in 1985, best explains the song about his real life experience as a child to Steve Turner, his biographer: [Turner, Too Late To Stop Now, p. 102]

I suppose I was about twelve years old. We used to go to a place called Ballystockart to fish. We stopped in the village on the way up to this place and I went to this little stone house, and there was an old man there with dark weather-beaten skin, and we asked him if he had any water. He gave us some water which he said he'd got from the stream. We drank some and everything seemed to stop for me. Time stood still. For five minutes everything was really quiet and I was in this 'other dimension'. That's what the song is about.

Acclaim

*It was listed as No. 682 on the All Time 885 Greatest Songs compiled in 2004 by WXPN from listener's votes. [ [http://www.xpn.org/music/885ATGS.php All-Time 885 Greatest Songs] ]

Appearance on other albums and DVDs

*It was one of the songs chosen for Van Morrison's 1990 album, "The Best of Van Morrison".
*"And It Stoned Me" was one of the songs performed on Van Morrison's 1980 segment of his (2006) 2 disc DVD "Live at Montreux 1980/1974".
*It is one of the hits included on the 2007 compilation album, "Still on Top - The Greatest Hits".

Personnel on original release

*Van Morrison - vocals, guitar
*John Klingberg - bass guitar
*Jeff Labes - piano
*Gary Mallaber - drums
*John Platania - guitar
*Jack Schroer - alto saxophone
*Collin Tilton - tenor saxophone

Covers

Some of the many artists that have performed this song are: Jackie Deshannon, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, James Morrison, Widespread Panic, Gov't Mule, David Gray, and The Allman Brothers Band.

Notes

References

*Turner, Steve (1993). Too Late to Stop Now, Viking Penguin, ISBN 0-670-85147-7

External links

* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:fifwxqlgldde Allmusic Review: And It Stoned Me]
* [http://www.vanmorrison.co.uk/?m=Content&Content(record_id)=b2950180e54389f3cf9d93ad908ac00e Lyrics and audio samples] Moondance 1970s


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