| "Wild Night" | ||||
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| Single by Van Morrison | ||||
| from the album Tupelo Honey | ||||
| B-side | "When That Evening Sun Goes Down" | |||
| Released | 1 September 1971[1] | |||
| Recorded | Spring 1971 in Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 3:33 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Van Morrison | |||
| Producer(s) | Van Morrison Ted Templeman | |||
| Van Morrison singles chronology | ||||
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| Audio | ||||
| "Wild Night" on YouTube | ||||
"Wild Night" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and is the opening track on his fifth studio album Tupelo Honey. It was released as a single in 1971 and reached number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[4] In 2022, the song peaked at #1 on the radio airplay chart in Canada.[5]
Morrison has continued to perform it in concerts throughout his career and it has been recorded by many artists and bands. A new version recorded by John Mellencamp and Meshell Ndegeocello in 1994 peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of that year and reached number one in Canada for three weeks.
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- ^ "Wild Night by van Morrison - Track Info | AllMusic". AllMusic.
- ^ Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (15 October 1996). "Color Blind: Blue-eyed Soul". Precious and Few - Pop Music in the Early '70s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 42. ISBN 031214704X.
- ^ "Song artist 420 – Van Morrison". tsort.info. Retrieved 6 December 2009.
- ^ "Wild Night".