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Sounding in the Clouds
(bootleg CD)

Living Legend Records LLRCD-126
(Released 1991 by Multi Coloured Music, Italy; bar code 4-013971-001262)

  1. Moondance (3:42)
  2. Vanlose Stairway (4:38)
  3. It's All In The Game (6:28)
  4. Into The Mystic (4:20)
  5. Like A Song (2:52) (actually the instrumental "Lark Ascending")
  6. Haunts of Ancient Peace (5:41)
  7. Celic (sic) Swing (2:55)
  8. Cyprus Avenue (9:46)
  9. In The Garden (5:27)
  10. Caravan (5:29)
  11. Tura Lora (sic) (4:02)
  12. Rave On, John Donne (8:46)
  13. Sounding in the Clouds (4:47) (actually "Send in the Clowns" from Stephen Sondheim's "Little Night Music")
    Total time: (68:56)

The liner notes claim "Recorded live, Berkeley, California, March 17, 1985", but see notes below.

From the liner notes:
Strings arranged and conducted by Jeff Labes.
Van Morrison - lead vocals, guitar, sax, harmonica
John Platania - guitar
David Hayes - bass
Dahaud Shaar - drums
Jeff Labes - piano
Pee Wee Ellis - saxophones, flute
Terry Adams - violin
Bob Doll - trumpet
Susie Davis - vocals
Carol Kenyon - vocals

Additional information from Arthur Siegel:
Both Sounding in the Clouds and St. Patrick's Day are presumably taken from a commercial broadcast that included the previously unavailable professional recording of Van at the Greek Theatre 7/25/86, doing a show with a reconstituted version of the Caledonia Soul Orchestra.

See additional notes with the Discography entry for St. Patrick's Day. Tracks 10 & 11 on this bootleg are from The Band's The Last Waltz.

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