Australian singles charts:
Moonlight Feels Right entered the Kent Music Report on 19 July 1976 and peaked at #25.
Album:
The song is on Starbuck’s album Moonlight Feels Right.
Songwriter:
Bruce Blackman
Producer:
Bruce Blackman
Record label of Australian release:
Private Stock
A nice new remaster by the song’s original producer and bandmember Bruce Blackman:
BONUS CLIP BELOW – there are some great stories around this song from Bruce Blackman himself
Songfacts:
Moonlight Feels Right was written by Starbuck keyboardist/vocalist/producer Bruce Blackman. The group formed in Atlanta in 1974, around the talents of Blackman and marimba player Bo Wagner.
When this song was on Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 radio show, it was promoted as the first rock song ever to feature a marimba.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/starbuck/moonlight-feels-right
Lyrics:
The wind blew some luck in my direction
I caught it in my hands today
I finally made a tricky French connection
You winked and gave me your o.k.
I’ll take you on a trip beside the ocean
And drop the top at Chesapeake Bay
Ain’t nothing like the sky to dose a potion
The moon will send you on your way
Moonlight feels right
Moonlight feels right
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This song is also on our Spotify playlist Bang a Gong – the 70s
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BONUS CLIP
Bruce Blackman tells how actor Gene Hackman, an epic Marimba solo, and an accidental laugh in the chorus came to epitomise this classic… and how Bruce had to rush to get the song recorded as Lynyrd Skynyrd was kicking him out of the studio. Also, how the song led to a marriage proposal, and if she said ‘yes’…
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