Before Van Morrison embarked on a solo career in 1966, he fronted the Northern Irish band Them that released a popular track titled “Here Comes the Night” that featured a famed guitarist.
Them had made the rounds with some hit songs like “Gloria” that launched Morrison’s career, and later released a follow-up hit, “Baby, Please Don’t Go.” According to UDiscoverMusic, “Here Comes the Night” was recorded during the same October 1964 session as “Baby Please Don’t Go.” Written and produced by Bert Berns, both tracks became hits for the band.
“One recording session. Approximately four or five hours work. That was all it took to produce two smash hits for Them,” said Richard Green to Record Mirror.
Band member Billy Harrison remembers he was sitting in Decca Studio in West Hampstead, London, when Berns told him he had a song and only had the riff for it done. The two ended up working on the track together, “and we came up with what you hear. We worked at it sitting in the studio—but no engineers or anything.”
“Here Comes the Night” was recorded not only with the band and Morrison on vocals, who was 19 at the time, but with guitarist Jimmy Page. In the ’60s, he was making his career as a studio session musician before he became a member of the Yardbirds in 1966 after the Them song was released. Page would later be the founder of the legendary rock band Led Zeppelin in 1968.
According to reports, Them had every intention of the track being the follow-up to “Baby, Please Don’t Go.” Decca Records decided against it, as they had another artist, Lulu, record the same song and rushed its release in November 1964. Lulu’s version landed at No. 40 on the UK charts but quickly fell off. Them released their version months later in March 1965. The band had a “grim satisfaction” that the singer’s song was not making a big impact.
Instead, Them’s “Here Comes the Night” not only peaked at No. 2 in the UK, but it made its way abroad and landed at No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100. The track would stay on the charts for 10 weeks, as it also landed at No. 8 in Canada and charted in Australia and Ireland.
“We always do the type of thing we like,” said Morrison to Record Mirror. “We don’t think there’s any such thing as trends. We don’t call ourselves R&B or anything. That’s why the two hits have been so different. If we like something, we do it.”
In the years since the song’s release, it has been covered by multiple musicians and bands. David Bowie released his own version in 1973, and Rod Stewart released his own for a special edition album.
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