You've Got the Power

Infobox Song
Name = You've Got the Power


Caption =
Type =
Artist = Van Morrison
alt Artist =
Album =
A-side = "Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)"
B-side = "You've Got the Power"
Published =
Released = August 1972
track_no =
Recorded = 1972
Genre = R & B/Country rock
Length = 3:37
Writer = Van Morrison
Composer = Van Morrison
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Producer = Van Morrison
Chart position =
Misc ="You've Got the Power" is an outtake from Van Morrison's 1972 album, "Saint Dominic's Preview". It was released as the B-side to "Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)" in 1972.

The song features the same personnel as on the title track of the album that it was cut out from: "Saint Dominic's Preview" — excluding the backing vocal trio, Pat O'Hara's trombone and the pedal steel guitar. As with other songs he arranged for "Saint Dominic's Preview", Tom Salisbury played piano and organ on this song as well.

Lyrics

The song contains lines from two other previously released Morrison songs: "Sweet Thing" and "I've Been Working". The line, "Baby with your saint like smile" was originally used at the end of "Sweet Thing" just before the song faded out. "Set my soul on fire" was first used in "I've Been Working". There is also a song written by Morrison, recorded in 1969, entitled "Set My Soul on Fire". [Heylin. "Can You Feel the Silence?", p.519]

Highlights

"You've Got the Power" was going to be in a compilation of outtakes called "Highlights", but it remains unreleased, according to Morrison. Clinton Heylin says "The fourteen-track album Warners compiled only included two songs that pre-dated "Hard Nose the Highway": "I Shall Sing" from "Moondance" sessions and a 1972 non-album B-side, "You've Got the Power"."cite book |author=Heylin |title=Can You Feel the Silence? |pages=p.314 ]

"Highlights" track listing

All songs by Van Morrison

#"I Shall Sing"
#"Laughing in the Wind"*
#"Street Theory"
#"Foggy Mountain Top"*
#"There There Child"
#"It Hurts When You Want it So Bad"
#"Feedback out on Highway 101"
#"You've Got the Power"
#"Try for Sleep"*
#"Naked in the Jungle"
#"The Street Only Knew Your Name"
#"All Around the World"
#"Don't Change on Me"
#"Down to Earth"

The three tracks as asterisked appear on "The Philosopher's Stone".cite book |author=Heylin |title=Can You Feel the Silence? |pages=p.314 ]

Personnel on the original release

*Van Morrison - vocals
*Jack Schroer - alto saxophone
*Jules Broussard - tenor saxophone, flute
*Doug Messenger - guitar
*Tom Salisbury - piano, organ
*Bill Church - bass
*Gary Mallaber - drums

Covers

*Roy Head

Notes

References

*Heylin, Clinton (2003). Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography, Chicago Review Press ISBN 1-55652-542-7

External links

* [http://www.vanmorrison.co.uk/?m=Content&Content(record_id)=b2950180e54389f3cf9d93ad908ac00e# Lyrics and Audio samples] 1970s, Saint Dominic's Preview