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"Nights in White Satin" is a song by English rock band the Moody Blues, written by Justin Hayward. It was first featured as the segment "The Night" on the album Days of Future Passed . When first released as a single in 1967, it reached number 19 on the UK Singles Chart and number 103 in the United States in 1968.
Days of Future Passed is the second studio album by English progressive rock band the Moody Blues, released on 17 November 1967, by Deram Records. [8] It has been cited by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and others as one of the earliest albums of the progressive rock genre and one of rock music's first concept albums.
The album is regarded as a progressive rock landmark, and Thomas's flute solo on the single "Nights in White Satin" one of its defining moments. [21] His flute became an integral part of the band's music, even as Pinder began to use the mellotron keyboard.
The Moody Blues scored three top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100, with "Nights in White Satin" reaching number 2 in Billboard and number 1 in Cashbox. On the UK singles chart, the group also had three top-ten hits, with "Go Now" reaching number 1.
"Nights in White Satin" – 6:49 "Question" – 5:29 "Ride My See-Saw" – 4:50; Deluxe Edition track listing. The Deluxe Edition was released on 4 March 2003.
[11] The next chart successes for The Moody Blues were "Nights in White Satin" and "Tuesday Afternoon" in 1968. In a 2018 interview with author Robert Rodriguez on the podcast "Something About the Beatles", White Album engineer Chris Thomas recalled that George Harrison asked him to add a piano part to the Beatles song " Long Long Long " in the ...
However, both songs were overshadowed by the re-release of "Nights in White Satin", which had been first released in 1967. Whereas both singles from Seventh Sojourn made the top 40, "Nights In White Satin" bested both, hitting No. 9 in the UK and No. 2 in the United States and gaining the highest American chart position for a Moody Blues single.
The track "Blue Guitar," originally released as a non-album single credited to Hayward and Lodge in September 1975 but performed by Hayward with the band 10cc, with John Lodge on bass guitar, was added to the album upon its re-release on CD in 1987.