The record label didn't want to do the album because they felt, "you can't dance to it". The lead singer replied, "but you can make love to it." Then suddenly they had a record deal.
Indeed. Before the song started I was excited for Kel because I kept thinking "oh just wait until she hears the beautiful orchestral movements in this.."
Personally I always enjoyed waking up in the middle of the night with this song playing. Then drifting back for the most enjoyable sleep. Happened so many times I have a personal connection to the night. 🙏🏼😷
Being a 63 year old British male, watching your reactions make me realize how lucky I am to have lived through all the different eras of wonderful music that our country has brought to the world. Watching Kel's reactions to my favourite parts is quite emotional. Keep up the good work.
What a treat. Vividly remember as a young lad parking my push bike round the back of my mate Paul’s council house to spend afternoons listening to the Moodys. What a decade the 70’s were for incredible prog music.
@@cambridge5 56 year old black kid....would listen to it on AM during early '70's as my dad drove down the I - 95 corridor, I was the only one awake in the back seat, my mom and brother in deep sleep, all the way from NYC to Miami over 2 days! It was an inner-spiritual odyssey...but I was a child of the 'Age of Aquarius'! Heard em all! The Doors, Van Morrison, Hendrix, Animals.... I was born at the right time
Amen. This song is reason enough why The Moody Blues belong in the Hall of Fame. And it was awesome watching Kel’s reaction hearing this masterpiece for the first time. Kudos for doing it the right way, with stereo headphones!
They should have been in the Hall of Fame 35 years ago. But yeah they should have had this song in there to begin with. The people who got in the Hall of Fame that were and are nobody's pretty much really disgust me compared to The Moody Blues waiting what 50 years. They are the best rock and roll band of my lifetime. I am 63 years old. The thing that I find really remarkable is that as I get older I understand the lyrics better.
Remember seeing them on TOTPs. Also ready steady go. I have seen the birth of pop music and rock and roll, I am a 70 year old Englishmen, the 1950s /60s / 70s. Fantastic decades, I am blessed to have seen them all. Truly a magical time.
You can hear the passion and emotion as the singer cries out to the world his love for his special 1. It is truly a work of art. Touches a common feeling that all people long to experience.
Sooo right Alan. Days through to Octave = prog rock classics. I see list of great bands, great albums and very rarely see the Moodies. The group that sang about the environment (Question lp) before it became fashionalbe. The group that sang about isolation and the need for a simpler life (7th Sojourn) before it became fashionable. Moodies again ahead of the curve.
Basically, the Moody Blues created the genre of progressive rock, yet they are consistently ignored in the lists of prog rock bands on the internet. I think perhaps they lost credibility with the move to synth-pop after Pinder left the group.
Great choice, I also recommend Peak Hour, Legend of a Mind, Never Comes the Day, Have You Heard/ The Voyage and pretty much anything off the To Our Children's Children's Children which celebrates it's 50th anniversary this year.
Literally couple goals. Hopefully I'll find my person. But until then, I'll just smile and watch these two lovebirds! Haha 😋! Much love and respect, from a maple syrup chugging, bearded, Canadian dude!
Remember this was the time of Viet Nam, and many riots. This band tried to bring peace. They finally made it to the Rock and Roll hall of fame. Seeing them in concert, well that was a totally great night. Singer in a rock and roll band, Nights in white satin was a song I danced to with my prom date. This song was so deep and the ending statements by Justin Hayward were just so meaningful. Was great to be growing up in the 60's and 70's.
I always remembered the vocals in this song. They're insane. They used to give me chills as a small child hearing those backing vocals and wondering what hellish torture they were going through to sound like that. It's otherworldly to listen to on a cold, quiet, snowy winter night. Keep up the good work.
My brother brought them home and this was maybe late 80's or 90's, but all I knew at the time was what the local pop stations were playing and the 50's stations my parents listened to. Now, some 30 years later, this is what I remember.
One of the greatest progressive rock bands ever. I grew up with this music. Some of the best music ever made was between 1965 - 1975. Emerson Lake and Palmer, King Crimson, The moody blues. Crosby Stills and Nash and PINK FLOYD.
#TheMoodyBlues - The Story In Your Eyes 'or' I'm Just A Singer In A Rock 'n Roll Band (two of their more 'rocking' pieces) (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada) Perfect indeed...thank you, thank you for playing this magnificent piece (and the version with Late Lament to boot!) What a way to start my Monday! I introduced my girlfriend (now wife, Jenny) to this group (and she's a classically trained pianist), she absolutely fell in love with them! Enough so that this very song became our wedding song - so it's ironic that just a week prior (June 7th, our 16th anniversary), I sent her a link to a video from 1967 performance of this song which she had never seen! I get chills EVERY time I hear this...the ultimate love song! I highly suggest checking out the entire 'Days Of Future Passed' album - it's a sonic experience like no other! I'd also recommend anything from their first 7 albums. Thanks!
I've just turned 66 and they were the very first concert I had ever gone to. I think I was 16. The next concert I went to was the Doors. Also saw Janis, Canned Heat, Quicksilver Messenger Service and will never ever forget my Hendrix concert. It's been a great life of music for me.
I guess I'm the young one in the room at 63. Isn't it amazing the musical journey we've taken simply growing up, growing older and hopefully wiser, with the music we loved in our youth. About the only constant in life is our music. Our generation had the very best music. Even kids today are saying what a great time that seems to have been, and we assure them it was.
I remember playing this version as a 19 year old DJ in the '70s at KCLC in St.Charles, Mo. One night, just on a whim, I stopped the 'vinyl' for 2-3 seconds just before playing the gong at the end of the song I got a ton of phone calls that night from people wanting to know where I got that version of the song. Ah, for those good ol' days. They were such fun. Loved Kel's reaction to this song. Y'all keep up the great work.
I saw the Moody Blues in 1971. I saw them perform this song and others with Mike Pinder on his custom double keyboard Mellotron and a real double string quartet. When they did Nights in White Satin it was absolutely magnificent, majestic! We all had tears in our eyes afterwards. Nobody said a word all the way home. One of the very best concert moments in my life.
1970 was the year that the Moody Blues changed my life... From nerdy recluse to leaving home at 16 and pitching a tent on the side of Mt. Juneau and finishing high school as an emancipated minor... Alaska toughened me to survive the cold and wind... But the music kept me warm... Actually, shivering to music was better than just shivering...
This is one of the songs that causes me to think of my mum. She turns 85 in a few weeks, and over the decades we’ve seen Moody Blues live together 2x. If I have the stamina, when that day comes, I will sing this at her memorial, and hopefully others will join with me. It is a perfect song. 🖤🧡🖤
Btw, what Rich refers to as the "extended" or "full" version is wrong. The poem at the end (Breathe deep...) is actually a separate track called Late Lament. DJs started playing them paired together ages ago and it's just stuck in people's mind that it's one piece, but it's not.
@@failuremagnet You're right. Graeme Edge wrote poetry which they often included on their albums. On The Threshold Of A Dream features his poem "The Dream".........ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oDLOP-zlBsU.html
I used to sing this song during Karaoke night at a local VFW(Not Well). The veterans would always ask me to sing it. It surprised me how much it resonated with them.
Saw them live in 1967, Seattle WA. They played their first album twice that night. After the first set, we shouted more, Moreover & over.. Then lead guitar player said they didn't have any more tunes, Said we play set again, they did. At the end they said no crown ever cheered, begged for more.
The Moody Blues are still my favorite group of all time. The back up band for this album was the London Festival Orchestra,which is why the live recordings aren't the same. You really need to listen to the whole album.
A Moodys fan since about 69. I saw them live in Charlevoix Mi. with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in the late '80s. Best concert of my life! I still get emotional listening to that piece and I'm 65.
@@Moilly2 Days of Future Past didn't come out until 67 - Freak Out was in 66, so more than "just" predates. But Blonde on Blonde came out about a week before Freak Out, so THAT is the first gatefold.
No matter where I am, How I am etc I "Always" get Total Goose Bumps all over. The most Bitter-Sweet Song ever recorded. It speaks for all those who have loved and lost and have not been able to express or convey how that feels.
This is one of, if not the greatest father's day gifts I have ever received. When I was just a little kid in the 70's, my dad didn't like much music or entertainment, but he loved The Moody Blues, and his favorite song by a mile was Nights in White Satin. He had an 8-track tape player in his car, and the only tape he had or wanted was The Moody Blues Greatest Hits. We heard it over and over for years, and it never seemed to get old for him. He passed away twenty years ago last month, and seeing someone hear this song and enjoy it so much on Father's Day just brought back so many emotions for me. Thanks so much for posting this video!!!
It hooked me (though I didn’t discover The Moodies till 1982). Days Of Future Passed, as the title suggests is timeless. The days come and go in 2020 just the same as they did in 1967. Even though I was fifteen years down the line the music of this LP simply evokes many feelings and emotions I was experiencing as a twelve year old schoolboy.In my subconscious I feel I may have heard some of this at that time. There was so much going on musically and even your classmates would discuss the songs that appeared on Top Of The Pops the previous evening...oh what memories...thank God for the music and those who blessed us with it.
After hearing this on your channel I have to recommend Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds. I'm sure you've already heard Forever Autumn, but the whole album is a classic.
ok this was sweet - listening together......and sharing such a Unique and ICONIC song..and the long version - Bravo .....reminds me of a summer night - laying outside looking up the stars
"Tuesday Afternoon" was the intro song at "Red Rocks" after the fantastic build up by "The Colorado Symphony Orchestra".... A fantastic and epic moment!
I just love Kel’s reaction! I’ve watched this video 8 times and her reaction never gets old! Love what you two are doing! You both have my most sincere appreciation! LOVE IT!
Kel was right, its just a beautiful piece of music, and one of the greats. It's a top ten in my greatest songs ever. Plus thank you for playing the full and proper version, its over looked all the time. Moved to tears every time. Cheers from down under !
Down under? Greetings to our Aussie brothers. Us Yanks in the States love the wildlife shows coming from you guys. Would love to visit, looks like a great place to hang out. Take care my friend. Oh and keep putting out great music!
@@rondohunter8966 Giday, and LOLOLOL @ yanks ! Yes The Aussies are here in support of KnR ! You guy's over there have just as many nice places also. I love our music and have 2 internet radio shows via The Hard Rock Show on community TV out of Melbourne. Now i am a head Banger at heart so they are metal shows. I am on a hiatus atm after the passing of my mum. I hope its ok with Kel n Rich but my FB page is The Armchair Head Banger . Feel free to check me out but my shows are still off till i make my rerturn. Cheers for touching base !
@@waynehauser3611 So sorry to hear about the loss of your mum. I've been there, know what you're going through. It ain't easy, it ain't fun. But you bungle through and keep going day to day it that's what it takes. You never forget your mum. Lost my wife of 18 yrs. past January. Still in mourning. My best to you and yours. Australia strong! Take care my friend.
When I was 17 I was into bands with guitar, bass and drums. rock.. My girl was 28 and her brother was 24 and they were both big Moody Blues fans. They ook me to a Moody Blues concert in 1971 and I had tears rolling down my face when they played Nights In White Satin! I've seen them at least a dozen times since then!
I wish people wouldn't post supposed "videos" from before the video era. This, for instance, is not a video produced in 1967-68 but something made by a fan that I think detracts from the song itself. The best reaction I've ever heard to this song was a radio deejay following it by just repeating, "Savor, savor, savor ..."
Justin Haywood, the vocalist for the Moody Blues also sung on Jeff Wayne’s musical version of “The War Of The Worlds”. He sung Forever Autumn on the album. Might worth a listen if you enjoy ballards.
Without a shadow of a doubt, one of the greatest pieces of music to ever have been written in the 20th Century! (And I loved that Kel included "Silent Lucidity" among the this & "Stairway To Heaven" - that earned points with me!!) \m/
The lead singing is Justin Hayward he is from my home town called Swindon in the UK he lived in a street called Dean street, and he also went to a school called Commonweal where i went. he was 19 y/o when he wrote this.
" Days Of Future Passed" is an all-time classic album.-----------------Justin Hayward wrote this at 19 y/o, after breaking up with his 1st GF. Peter Knight took the music further by combining his own music, & conducting the LSO . ----------------So, it's the group, + Peter Knight's arrangements, & conducting the LSO. --------------------------------WolfSky9
Bands of the late 60's were heavily into the American blues style. Some other blues lovers were the Yard Birds ( Cream and Led Zeppelin), Deep Purple, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Who and even Black Sabbath.
The passion you have for each other and the music is palpable and wonderful! ! Have loved the Moody Blues for decades! Please give Tuesday Afternoon and Question a listen
First, Rich, Happy Father's Day. It was a great pleasure to watch Kel as she took the journey through the mind of this wonderful piece of music. You can see how she was remembering the letters that she had written, "never meaning to send." As the poetry spoke of Love she was thinking of you Rich as she was reaching for your hand. Then just as she anticipated the end of the song only to be surprised by the journey of the mind as she listened to the final poem. Wonderful, just wonderful to watch and relive it through her eyes. :-)
You know Rich and Kel, the Moody Blues breakout album "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour" is a gem. I highly recommend giving a listen to the first two songs "Procession" followed by "The Story in Your Eyes" for a taste of how the Moody Blues began. Super inventive and highly musical. Great stuff. Love what you're doing. Cheers!
I first heard this on a very low-fidelity, battery powered, record player in 1967. It's been a favorite ever since. I saw them live in the '90's, with a full orchestra, on their Red Rocks tour. Kel's reaction brought tears to my eyes, just as the live experience did. The sonic wonderment can be overwhelming.
You can prefer older music without insulting newer music, especially since it seems like you haven't heard a ton of newer music. There is plenty of good stuff out there, unless all you do is listen to the radio. I personally just love good music for its own sake, and I don't see the point in dividing it by genre (or the date it came out). But you do you...
this song brings back so many memories of when I was a little boy and this song came out, during the height of the hippy movement. bring back the early 70's! (except Vietnam, we can do without that next time around)
This is one of best love songs ever written! If this doesn't make one's heart full, there is something wrong. That moment where you laid your head on Rich's shoulder was priceless! Then when the symphonic elements slid in, the joy was Awesome!
One of *the* most beautiful songs ever written! The Moodies are one of my all-time favorite bands. This song also holds a special place in my heart because that poem at the end, Late Lament, was recorded the day I was born (according to the back cover of the This Is The Moody Blues compilation album released in 1972). I had loved this and Tuesday Afternoon as a child, but did not really start following them until I was in jr high/high school, with Long Distance Voyager and others. In college, I found their earlier albums in used record stores, and I became hooked on the Moody Blues magic from the late 60s through the 70s. In my humble opinion, Justin Hayward has one of the most beautiful, smooth, and soothing voices of all time. I'd suggest The Actor from In Search of the Lost Chord (1968) for one of Kel's next listens just for the amazing vocals. Also The Best Way To Travel, from the same album, in which you hear the sound literally circling your head. So awesome! I'd also suggest Are You Sitting Comfortably? from On The Threshold of a Dream (1969). This piece always puts me in a beautiful place in my mind, and I could listen to it on repeat for hours. *sigh* Forever Autumn from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds (1978) is especially poignant and beautiful. Although it was not written by the band, I'm not sure anyone else could have performed it as well as the Moody Blues. It would probably bring Kel to tears. I found this album at a used record dealer and purchased it just to have this masterpiece on vinyl. Really, anything you listen to by this band will not disappoint!!
It's been many years since I heard the album version of this. Took me right back. Thanks. I was 15 when this came out. I really believe that I lived during the best era of popular music.
thank you Thank You THANK YOU for playing the "Extended Version" (The ONLY version, IMNSHO!) No other "reaction-er" plays it, and it really is NOT complete without the poem.
I saw them in Toronto in the 80s and when they finished this song they received a standing ovation that went on for at least 5 minutes. They didn’t know what to do with it. They were so taken by surprise. Such a great tune. Thanks!
One of the best and authentic reactions on RU-vid! Excellent that you played the full version. Keep on the Progressive Rock Train.....ELP (Pirates, Trilogy, Knifes Edge, Karn Evil 9, etc.)
The name comes from the song Mood Indigo and a Beer Company named Blue Beer, The album Days of Future Passed was an attempt to recreate Dvorak's Symphony no. 9 From the New World. This what happens when the record says we will give you time in the studio to test our new stereophonic equipment. As the members of the Moodies have said, it was kids in atoy store. As an aside, the London Festival Orchestra never really existed as an entity, they could not get the London Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra were studio musicians. The name was used for the album label and cover, and to fool some record company execs.
