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Moonlighting: Live At The Ash Grove Live

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  • Audio CD (February 10, 1998)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Live
  • Label: Warner Bros Mod Afw
  • ASIN: B000002NE9
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #257,485 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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This is one beautiful album. Ain't nothing synthetic here... just brilliantly crafted and executed music, played by real people on real instruments. Van Dyke is an American Treasure, and should be celebrated as such. Buying and reveling in this album is a good way to start.
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fantastic orchestration, shimmering sound quality, and songs that have peculiar but most graceful melodies. Van Dyke Parks has been a behind the scenes guy adding so much to bands as varied as The Beach Boys to U2; but his gift of translating others' songs as well as writing gorgous melodies is distinctly original.
Moonlighting, works as a sort of best-of, covering most of his solo career. Along with great performances, he also spins some history of each song telling a bit of where the inspiration came from, all adding to his unique southern charm. If you enjoy tin pan alley music this is a great album to add to your collection.
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With five albums that have very little in common, it would have been almost impossible to find a proper introduction to the music of Van Dyke Parks - until now. More than any of his previous releases, this disc explains why Parks's fans are so loyal. Almost tearfully melodic, these compositions --- both his and the obscure ones settled in the public domain --- bring you back, dreamike, to another era. The rearranged Orange Crate Art and Sailin' Shoes are highlights. If you care at all, you'll never be able to remove this from the CD player.
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I've been a fan of Van Dyke Parks since "Song Cycle." It's hard to get people to like his music, though, because his voice is considered irritating by most people. About the first 20 times I heard it, I hated it too. But I had a friend who was really into it, and he kept playing the damned thing. Finally, I started to get it, with "Donovan's Colours." I then gradually came to like the other songs, and now it's one of my all-time favorite albums.

"Moonlighting" is a concert -- man would I like to go to a Van Dyke Parks conert!! -- his voice sounds much, much better in concert than it does in studio recordings. This is a very playful, pretty performance.

I guess VDP is known for his lush, complicated arrangements -- he loves his violins, and many of his orchestrations feature a harp (kind of a neglected instrument). Of course the other thing he's known for is his collaboration with Brian Wilson, which resulted in an album, and ultimately came to a bad end before "Smile" could be produced. He wrote the words to "Heroes and Villains" -- those lyrics are characteristic of his style of writing words, I think.

If you want to try out Van Dyke Parks, I don't think there's a better way to do it than "Moonlighting." This is a very entertaining collection of songs, beautifully orchestrated, and sung really quite pleasantly by the man himself.
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the greatest unreleased album of all time album SMILE was penned by the great VD Parks... The more I hear of his unique work the more amazed I become ...Ive never really heard anything like it...is pure Americana but its not folk its not rock its just simply solid solid stuff...No wonder I cant stop listening to Smile. Possibly one of the most under the radar talents in modern US music history. His lyrical abilities are simple and stunningly complex at times.... no wonder he and Wilson worked so well together. I urge Beach Boy fans to immerse yourself in SMILE and the lyrical capabilities of Mr Parks. During some of the Smile sessions it was said Parks words just effortlessly flew off the pen as Wilson composed right alongside. Good stuff here on his own solo material which has its own SMILE like characteristics. The sound quality is excellent. Btw VDP is absolutely hysterical during the "in betweens" the production quality of this album is great. I think he should do stand up comedy he could easily pull it off.
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