This is the official music video for The Moon’s Loving Light by the Southern California rock band the Ram taken from the EP/album, I Am Nowhere I Am Everywhere (released April 18, 2025). The single is out on all streaming platforms.
ABOUT THE SONG:
In 1987 I began working on a Bachelors of Fine Art at SUNY New Paltz, a small gem of a town in the shadow of the Shwamangunk mountains an hour due north from NYC. The people I met in my time there set the stage for the rest of my life. Back in high school, I fugged up pretty bad and managed to get kicked out. Somehow, shortly after getting moved to a new high school in upstate NY, I began figural drawing and painting and was hooked. The tight community of artist, musicians, and writers I met in New Paltz from 1987-1991 set me on a path I continue on till this day. This song is for each and every one of them. The parties, the shared work, the trust instilled to complete the impossible, all happened while we became adults together. Far away from my own family, I found a new one.
Late one night after a party I looked up at the sky and was the full moon dancing between small clouds, lined up like a procession past the tree line. As I walked up to my studio late at night, I thought that the clouds were like the dreams of all the townspeople who had turned in for the night. The perfect companion for an artist about to open the door to his studio. The last line of the song is a nod to the culture of New Paltz, NY it’s a hippie town at least it was when I lived there. bars closed at 4pm in New York, still do. My friends and I had a habit of closing down the bars then heading up to the mountain lakes, waterfalls and streams to take a swim. There wasn’t a stitch of clothing involved in any one of those late night swims. Good times.
LYRICS:
Open up the door
Let the summer wind blow in
Get our friends together
Let the evening start flowing
The clouds are parting ways
To let the moon shine through
And the moon’s loving light is on the likes of you
I can hear the music
Coming down from the mountain
Keeps on getting closer
Just a shaking up the ground and
Our favorite band is playing ‘till a quarter after two
And the moon’s loving light is on the likes of you
I can see my baby
Such a sweet little dancer
Moving with the music
How she weaves like a panther
The moon is drunk on whiskey
Don’t you know it’s true
And the moon’s loving light is on the likes of you
Load up the station wagon
Bars will soon be closing
Take a little drive up into the mountains
The moon is gonna shine
On your pretty birthday suit
And the moon’s loving light is on the likes of you
METADATA:
The Moon’s Loving Light
The Ram
UPC : QZHN52570340
Release date: April 18, 2025
ASCAP Work ID: T3308384654
ASCAP Singer Songwriter IPI Number: 375350750
ASCAP Publisher IPI Number: 375351159
ABOUT THE VIDEO:
In 2024 I made a music video for Space Cowboy using some experimental film techniques and having fun with a space man doll. It was more like a Stretch Armstrong. Had no clue I would get such a great response from both the songs and the visuals that went with the release. Even though this song is not going to be on the Space Cowboy album I’m working on for 2026, I’m already thinking about the new songs visually. My new album out next week, is already in my rearview mirror.
Footage was shot here at the home studio, in front of a makeshift greenscreen, set infront of film footage taken from trips to the Italian Alps, The crazy looking space base the astronaut comes out of is actually taken during the 3 cable car trek up to the Marmalade, a spectacular Mountain in the Dolomites. The moon itself is a light up plastic moon model. The space suits are collectible GI Joe dolls from Apollo II. I had a tremendous amount of fun figuring out how to fit my huge head into a space helmet of a doll, it wasn’t that hard after all few tries, I got it working perfectly. Reminds me of the early sci-fi movies from the 1980s, Star Wars ripoffs and campy visual FX.+
ABOUT THE RAM:
Mark “The Ram” O’Donnell is an independent American composer and visual artist based out of Carlsbad, California. He performs original, surf-inspired, West Coast rock-and-roll.
For more information about the Ram and his music, go to www.TheRamMusic.com
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