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Wild Nights: Legacy Expands Van Morrison’s “It’s Too Late to Stop Now”

May 3, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

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Following last year’s releases of The Essential Van Morrison and The Complete Them 1964-1967, Legacy Recordings continues to mine the Van Morrison back catalogue with the June 10 releases of the remastered 2-CD or 2-LP It’s Too Late to Stop Now and the 3-CD/1-DVD box set It’s Too Late to Stop Now…Volumes II, III, IV & DVD.

It’s Too Late to Stop Now, of course, is Morrison’s 1974 double album with his Caledonia Soul Orchestra, capturing concert recordings from his May to July 1973 tour at Los Angeles’ famed Troubadour, the Santa Monica Civic Center, and London’s Rainbow Theatre.  The remastered original album will be available on both CD and vinyl, while the CDs of Volumes II-IV collect previously unreleased concert recordings from those three venues.  The DVD included in the 3-CD set contains professionally-shot footage from the Rainbow Theatre stand which originally aired on the BBC in the U.K. but has never before been commercially available.

The original It’s Too Late was compiled by Morrison and co-producer Ted Templeman from eight sets of live performances and was famously free of any subsequent studio overdubs.  Volumes II-IV returns to those original performances, first captured on two-inch 16-track analog tapes, as newly remastered by Guy Massey.  None of the tracks on this set are duplicated from the performances on the original album.

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“I am getting more into performing,” Morrison commented in 1973.  “It’s incredible…. All of a sudden I felt like ‘you’re back into performing’ and it just happened like that…. A lot of times in the past I’ve done gigs and it was rough to get through them. But now the combination seems to be right and it’s been clicking a lot.”  Supported by his 11-piece Caledonia Soul Orchestra (containing two horns and four strings among its players), Morrison revisited his greatest classics to that point including “Gloria,” “Domino,” “Brown-Eyed Girl,” “Into the Mystic,” “Warm Love,” “The Way Young Lovers Do,” “Moondance,” and many more.  He also paid tribute to his own musical heroes with well-selected covers of Sam Cooke, Hank Williams, Ray Charles, and even Sesame Street‘s Joe Raposo.

Both the remastered edition of It’s Too Late to Stop Now and the new box set It’s Too Late to Stop Now… Volumes  II, III, IV & DVD will be available from Legacy on June 10.  You can pre-order at the links below!

Van Morrison, It’s Too Late to Stop Now…Volumes II, III, IV & DVD (Legacy, 2016) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

VOLUME II (Recorded live at The Troubadour, Los Angeles, May 23, 1973)

  1. Come Running (Van Morrison)
  2. These Dreams Of You (Van Morrison)
  3. The Way Young Lovers Do (Van Morrison)
  4. Snow In San Anselmo (Van Morrison)
  5. I Just Want To Make Love To You (Willie Dixon)
  6. Bring It On Home To Me (Sam Cooke)
  7. Purple Heather (Van Morrison)
  8. Hey, Good Lookin’ (Hank Williams)
  9. Bein’ Green (Joseph G. Raposo)
  10. Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)
  11. Listen To The Lion (Van Morrison)
  12. Hard Nose The Highway (Van Morrison)
  13. Moondance (Van Morrison)
  14. Cyprus Avenue (Van Morrison)
  15. Caravan (Van Morrison)

VOLUME III (Recorded live at the Santa Monica Civic, California, June 29. 1973)

  1. I’ve Been Working (Van Morrison)
  2. There There Child (Van Morrison, John Platania)
  3. No Way (Jeff Labes)
  4. Since I Fell For You (Woodrow Buddy Johnson)
  5. Wild Night (Van Morrison)
  6. I Paid The Price (Van Morrison, John Platania)
  7. Domino (Van Morrison)
  8. Gloria (Van Morrison)
  9. Buona Sera (Carl Sigman, Peter De Rose)
  10. Moonshine Whiskey (Van Morrison)
  11. Ain’t Nothing You Can Do (Don D. Robey, Joseph Wade Scott)
  12. Take Your Hand Out Of My Pocket (Sonny Boy Williamson)
  13. Sweet Thing (Van Morrison)
  14. Into The Mystic (Van Morrison)
  15. I Believe To My Soul (Ray Charles)

VOLUME IV (Recorded live at The Rainbow, London, July 23 & 24, 1973)

  1. Listen To The Lion (Van Morrison)
  2. I Paid The Price (Van Morrison, John Platania)
  3. Bein’ Green (Joseph G. Raposo)
  4. Since I Fell For You(Woodrow Buddy Johnson)
  5. Into The Mystic (Van Morrison)
  6. Everyone (Van Morrison)
  7. I Believe To My Soul (Ray Charles)
  8. Sweet Thing (Van Morrison)
  9. I Just Want To Make Love To You (Willie Dixon)
  10. Wild Children (Van Morrison)
  11. Here Comes The Night (Bert Berns)
  12. Buona Sera (Carl Sigman, Peter De Rose)
  13. Domino (Van Morrison)
  14. Caravan (Van Morrison)
  15. Cyprus Avenue (Van Morrison)

DVD (Recorded live at The Rainbow, London, July 24, 1973)

  1. Here Comes The Night (Bert Berns)
  2. I Just Want To Make Love To You (Willie Dixon)
  3. Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)
  4. Moonshine Whiskey (Van Morrison)
  5. Moondance (Van Morrison)
  6. Help Me (Ralph Bass, Willie Dixon, Sonny Boy Williamson)
  7. Domino (Van Morrison)
  8. Caravan (Van Morrison)
  9. Cyprus Avenue (Van Morrison)

Van Morrison, It’s Too Late to Stop Now…Volume 1 (Warner Bros. 2BS 2760, 1974 – reissued Legacy, 2016) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

  1. Ain’t Nothin’ You Can Do
  2. Warm Love
  3. Into the Mystic
  4. These Dreams of You
  5. I Believe to My Soul
  6. I’ve Been Working
  7. Help Me
  8. Wild Children
  9. Domino
  10. I Just Want to Make Love to You
  11. Bring it on Home to Me
  12. Saint Dominic’s Preview
  13. Take Your Hand Out of My Pocket
  14. Listen to the Lion
  15. Here Comes the Night
  16. Gloria
  17. Caravan
  18. Cypress Avenue

THE CALEDONIA SOUL ORCHESTRA:

Jeff Labes – piano & organ
Dave Shaw – drums
John Platania – guitar
David Hayes – bass guitar
Jack Schroer – alto, tenor, baritone saxophones
Bill Atwood – trumpet
Nathan Rubin, Tim Kovatch & Tom Halpin – violin
Nancy Ellis – viola
Terry Adams – cello

Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Van Morrison

Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. Jim says

    May 3, 2016 at 2:01 pm

    Van will probably hate this but that track listing is awesome… Take my $!!!

    Reply
    • Will Evans says

      May 3, 2016 at 2:17 pm

      This release will doubtless have Van’s full approval as will all the forthcoming releases of Van’s extensive catalogue licensed to Sony by Van towards the end of last year

      Reply
    • Mark B. Hanson says

      May 3, 2016 at 3:04 pm

      The Vol II, III & IV box set is only $49.98 at Amazon. Not a premium price…

      Reply
      • Ken says

        May 4, 2016 at 1:39 am

        That seems like a reasonable price. In the UK its £55 (or over $80). Where do Amazon get these prices from?

        Reply
  2. Philip Cohen says

    May 3, 2016 at 4:59 pm

    Obviously, Van’s attitude towards archival product has changed…for the better. His criticism of the 3 Warner Bros. expanded editions has more to do with frustration that those are the only albums from his career that he doesn’t own, than any musical reasons.

    Reply
    • Peter Haas says

      May 3, 2016 at 5:06 pm

      I do wish they would do something new and expanded with “St. Dominic’s Preview.”

      Reply

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