Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Overnight Music Video - Here Comes The Night - Them.



"Here Comes the Night" is a 1964 song, written by Bert Berns and originally released by Decca on a recording by Scottish singer Lulu that charted at No. 50. The band Them, whose lead singer was Van Morrison, had a hit with it when their version was released in March 1965. Them's version charted at No. 2 in the UK and No. 24 in the US and was listed as No. 33 on the list of the Top 100 most popular hits in UK singles for the year 1965.
This was the second Them record produced by Bert Berns and the first that he had written for Them. It was recorded in a session at Decca Studios in West Hamstead, London in October 1964 along with "Baby, Please Don't Go" and "All For Myself".

Jimmy Page played guitar on this arrangement. Andy White and Tommy Scott performed backing vocals with Phil Coulter on keyboards. Drummer Ronnie Millings recalled that the band worked on the song at the studio with rehearsals lasting four days. Billy Harrison noted that "I remember sitting in Decca when Bert said he had this song, and he came out with "Here Comes the Night". He had a riff and that's all he had, and we sat and we worked on it, and we came up with what you hear. We worked at it sitting in the studio—but no engineers or anything." Phil Coulter later said, "I knew I'd heard a smash. It was the first time I'd ever heard a hit record in its emerging state."

"Them" were a Northern Irish band formed in Belfast in April 1964, most prominently known for the garage rock standard "Gloria" and launching singer Van Morrison's musical career. The original five member band consisted of Van Morrison, Alan Henderson, Ronnie Millings, Billy Harrison and Eric Wrixon.The group was marketed in the United States as part of the British Invasion.

"Them" scored two UK hits in 1965 with "Baby, Please Don't Go" (UK #10) and "Here Comes the Night" (UK #2, Ireland #2). The latter song and "Mystic Eyes"" were Top 40 hits in the US.

Van Morrison quit the band in 1966 and went on to a successful career as a solo artist. Although Them had a short-lived existence, the Belfast group had considerable influence on other bands, such as The Doors.

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