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"The Story in Your Eyes" is a 1971 hit single by the English rock band the Moody Blues. Written by the band's guitarist Justin Hayward , it was first released as a single with "My Song" on the B-side, and then on the 1971 album Every Good Boy Deserves Favour shortly after.
"Melancholy Man" is a song written by Mike Pinder that was first released on the Moody Blues' 1970 album A Question of Balance. It was also released as a single in some countries, but not in the UK or US, although in the US it was later released as the b-side of "The Story in Your Eyes".
[18] The song is sung by the band's four singers, though Edge made an attempt at singing the song during the sessions. "The Tortoise and the Hare", written by bassist John Lodge, takes direct inspiration from the fable by Aesop. He sees the song as a metaphor for the band: "It was really a sort of analogy, really, of the Moody Blues.
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is the seventh album by The Moody Blues, released in 1971.The album reached No. 1 on the British album chart, in addition to a three-week stay at No. 2 in the United States, and produced one top-40 single, "The Story in Your Eyes".
In late 1972, a re-issue of the five-year-old "Nights in White Satin" became the Moody Blues' biggest US hit, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and becoming a certified million-seller; [49] [54] the song had "bubbled under" the Hot 100 charts on its original release. The song also returned to the UK charts, reaching No. 9, ten places ...
US: Go Now: The Moody Blues #1. 1965 "Go Now" b/w "Lose Your Money" UK: A-side on The Magnificent Moodies/B-side non-album track US: A-side on Go Now: The Moody Blues #1/B-side non-album track "I Don't Want to Go On Without You" b/w "Time Is on My Side" 33 — — — — — — — UK: Non-album tracks US: A-side on Go Now: The Moody Blues #1 ...
This Is The Moody Blues is a two LP (later two CDs) compilation album by the Moody Blues, released in late 1974 while the band was on a self-imposed sabbatical. Though all of the songs were previously released on albums (with the exception of " A Simple Game " which was a 1968 B-side ), several of them are heard here in distinctly different mixes.
The Moody Blues arrive at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Netherlands in 1970. Pinder's 1970 album track "Melancholy Man" from A Question of Balance became a No. 1 hit in France. His "How is it (We Are Here)" from the album sessions, with the working title "Mike's Number One", surfaced later as a CD release.