MOONLIGHT ON WATER
LAURA BRANIGAN
SONGWRITERS: ADY GOLDMARK &
STEVEN kIPNER
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: LAURA BRANIGAN
LABEL: ATLANTIC RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1990
Laura Ann
Branigan (July 3, 1952– August 26, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter,
and actress. Her signature song, the platinum-certified 1982 single "Gloria",
stayed on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for 36 weeks, then a record for a female artist, peaking at No. 2.
It also reached number one in Australia and Canada. In 1984, she reached
number one in Canada and Germany with the U.S.
No. 4 hit "Self Control".
She also had success in the United Kingdom with both "Gloria" and
"Self Control" making the Top 10 in the UK Singles Chart.
Seeing
her greatest level of success in the 1980s, Branigan's other singles included
the Top 10 hit "Solitaire"
(1983), the U.S. AC chart number one "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You"
(1983), the Australian No. 2 hit "Ti amo"
(1984), and "The Power of Love"
(1987). Her most successful album was 1984's platinum-selling Self Control.
She also contributed songs to motion picture and television soundtracks,
including the Grammy and Academy Award-winning Flashdance soundtrack
(1983), and the Ghostbusters soundtrack
(1984). In 1985, she won the Tokyo Music
Festival with the song "The Lucky One".
Her chart success began to wane as the decade closed and after her last two
albums Laura
Branigan (1990) and Over My Heart (1993) garnered little attention, she generally retired from public
life for the rest of the 1990s. She began returning to performing in the early
2000s, most notably appearing as Janis Joplin in the off-Broadway musical Love, Janis.
As she was recording new music and preparing a comeback to the music industry,
she died at her home in August 2004 from a previously undiagnosed cerebral
aneurysm.
Branigan
and her music saw renewed popularity and public interest in 2019 in the US
after "Gloria"
was adopted by the NHL's
St. Louis Blues as their unofficial victory song while they completed a
historic mid-season turnaround to win their
first Stanley Cup in franchise history, leading to the song entering ice hockey lore
as an "unlikely championship anthem". Branigan's legacy manager and
representative Kathy Golik embraced the trend and traveled to St. Louis to
publicly represent Branigan among the Blues fanbase during the 2019 Stanley
Cup Playoffs, later stating her belief that
Branigan and "Gloria" "will forever be intertwined" with
the Blues and the city of St. Louis.
Laura
Branigan is the sixth album by singer Laura Branigan,
released in 1990.
The album's second single, "Never in a Million Years",
was an AC hit for Branigan. The album also brought the singer
back to the tops of the Hi-NRG charts and dancefloors with its
first single, "Moonlight on Water",
and a trendy update of Vicki Sue Robinson's
disco-era "Turn the Beat
Around". The latter was the first of many songs on which Branigan
added production to her list of credits. A slew of
promo remixes were embraced by many of the DJs who first brought her to
fame with "Gloria",
but "Turn the Beat Around" did not make the broader US national dance
chart and did not receive an official single release.
While a
sexy video supported the
lead-off single (which was subtitled "Sex on the Beach" on DJ
pressings), Laura Branigan became her first album since 1983's Branigan 2 to be
promoted by only one music video. While the album was Laura's last to be
commercially available as a vinyl LP, "Moonlight on Water" and
"Never in a Million Years" were also Branigan's first singles not to
be released in the 7" vinyl format. This was Branigan's first album not to produce a Top 40 Billboard Hot 100 hit.
The song
"Unison" was recorded by Celine Dion the same year. The album's final track was another Branigan
production, a subdued cover of Bryan Adams'
"The Best Was Yet to Come".
The song
was covered by Laura Branigan and was the first single taken from the self-titled
album that she released in 1990. However,
it was only a minor hit in the United States (reaching #59, one spot higher
than Kevin Raleigh's version), where a sexy music video for the song
received little airplay. Branigan can be seen performing the song on her second
videocassette and laserdisc concert
release, Laura
Branigan in Concert, which was filmed in 1990 at a
tour stop in Atlantic City and initially televised as part of the syndicated TV series SRO: In
Concert.
What's
going on down on the planet
What's going on inside your pretty head
What's life without a Mercedes
And the need to feel adrenaline rush
Is it
better than moonlight on water
Is it better than sex on the beach
Think about us riding wild horses
Think about us it's not out of reach
I'm
here for you
No matter where you go no matter what you do
I'm here for you
When there's a lonely night who can you hold on to
I'm here for you
Want you in my arms uncomplicated
I am for you I am
Who's
gonna be the competition
Who's next in line for promotion baby
Everyday the real world is fading
Spinning out on the wheel of fortune but
Is it
better than moonlight on water
Is it better than sex on the beach
Think about us riding wild horses
Think about us it's not out of reach babe
I'm
here for you
No matter where you go no matter what you do
I'm here for you
When there's a lonely night who can you hold on to
I'm here for you
Want you in my arms uncomplicated
I am for you I am
You've
been working so hard, don't you know it baby
You don't understand what I want from you
Instead of dreamin' 'bout all that money
We got such simpler things to do
Like
moonlight on water
Like sex on the beach
Think about us riding wild horses
Think about us it's not out of reach babe
I'm
here for you
No matter where you go no matter what you do
I'm here for you
When there's a lonely night who can you hold on to
I'm here for you
Want you in my arms uncomplicated
I am for you I am
But don't you worry 'bout the wrong things
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