April 6, 2013

Something Wonderful: Van Morrison - In The Days Before Rock'N'Roll

"Fats did not come in
Without those wireless knobs
Elvis did not come in
Without those wireless knobs"

Irish poet Paul Durcan, who co-wrote this song, provides the spoken vocals on this track. In 1988 Durcan wrote: "Myself, if I was Minister for Education, I'd bring in a new curriculum in the morning and top of my list would be Kavanagh and Morrison. All of Kavanagh and Morrison - not my selection or Saint Augustine's selection or Barry McGuigan's selection or Dean Martin's selection but the entire oeuvre and let the audience (students are a free audience - not a concentration camp of suitable victims) pick out what they like and what they don't like."

"And then the killer came along
The killer, Jerry Lee Lewis
A whole lotta shakin' goin' on,
Great balls of fire"

Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 6, 2013 12:25 PM
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Durcan does show have the insight to understand that it is not who is Minister of Education that ultimately matters, but that there is one.

Posted by: james wilson at April 7, 2013 10:50 AM

Thanks for taking me back to the wonder of Van Morrison.

Posted by: Shutterbug at April 7, 2013 8:00 PM

Thanks for taking me back to the wonder of Van Morrison.

Posted by: Shutterbug at April 7, 2013 8:01 PM