TS: King Harvest's "Dancing in the Moonlight" v.s. The Looking Glass's "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)"

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"brandy" totally and utterly

mango selassie (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 03:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Have to take "Dancing" because its opening electric piano riff might be my favorite pop moment ever.

Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 03:58 (seventeen years ago) link

"Brandy" is the better song, but at the same time, feels totally MOR to me - the kind of song you could easily imagine being followed by the Carpenters. (Can you imagine anyone nowadays covering it?)

"Dancing in the Moonlight" is somehow more "rock," albeit soft rock.

i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 06:21 (seventeen years ago) link

"brandy" is a lot more fun to sing along to.

reo fordecor (reo), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 06:39 (seventeen years ago) link

So, King Harvest has surely won?

s woods (sw00ds), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 01:26 (seventeen years ago) link

oof

your daughter is one (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 01:40 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

i heard brandy today while driving home, how is this even a contest? so great, <3 songs about sailors

gershy, Saturday, 17 May 2008 02:36 (fifteen years ago) link

yeah, but "dancing in the moonlight" was used in some weird bra commercial a few years ago, if I'm not mistaken. it's possible that could be swaying opinion here, to some extent.

i've said this before, but it's all moustache rock to me, etc.

dell, Saturday, 17 May 2008 03:02 (fifteen years ago) link

Brandy is MOR godhead almost up there with Wichita Lineman. A little min-epic about love and longing in three minutes. Lovely. So many good lines in that song.

leavethecapital, Saturday, 17 May 2008 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link

King Harvest vs. Starbuck

anyway, I'd say "Moonight Feels Light" > "Brandy" > "Dancing In The Moonlight" (which is still pretty great)

xhuxk, Saturday, 17 May 2008 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link

Just found this!! Scary chest hair! Beards! I bet they're now playing some oldies circuit in Myrtle Beach.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U8Bheg86hg&feature=related

leavethecapital, Saturday, 17 May 2008 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link

xhuxk on the mark.

dell, Saturday, 17 May 2008 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link

Oh my god this is the impossible question.

Abbott, Saturday, 17 May 2008 23:42 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Has anybody else heard the dance remix for this?

Cunga, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPLUTMYZQ4o

Cunga, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWXPOzGpeEs

xhuxk, Thursday, 17 September 2009 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link

Wow, something to go along with Aly and AJ covering the Lovin' Spoonful.

Cunga, Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:22 (fourteen years ago) link

Next time you're in the karaoke bar, take a shot at "Brandy". It always kills.

chocolatepiekid, Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:57 (fourteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

"Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" has a Horns & Strings arranged by Larry Fallon, who was otherwise unknown to me, except I just looked him up and he also has similar credits on Astral Weeks, Chelsea Girls and Gimme Shelter, along with a few other albums. Not to be confused with random googler father-in-law larry robinson.

Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 October 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link

When I was young I thought that Dancing in the Moonlight was about werewolves.

Hideous Lump, Thursday, 17 October 2019 06:47 (four years ago) link


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