Werner Müller Orchestra And Choir - Nights In White Satin

Werner Müller Orchestra And Choir - Nights In White Satin

(Written By: Justin Hayward)

«Nights in White Satin» is a song by the Moody Blues, written and composed 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. It was the first significant chart entry by the band since «Go Now» and its recent lineup change, in which Denny Laine and Clint Warwick had resigned and both Hayward and John Lodge had joined. When reissued in 1972, the single hit number two in the United States for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 (behind «I Can See Clearly Now» by Johnny Nash) and hit number one on the Cash Box Top 100. It earned a gold certification for sales of over a million US copies (platinum certification was not instituted until 1976). It also hit number one in Canada. After two weeks at Νο 2, it was replaced by «I'd Love You to Want Me» by Lobo. It reached its highest UK position this year at number 9. Although the song did not enter the official New Zealand chart, it reached No 5 on the New Zealand Listener's chart compiled from the readers' votes in 1973. The song enjoyed a recurring chart presence in the following decades. It charted again in the UK and Ireland in 1979 reaching Νο 14 and Νο 8, respectively. The song charted again in 2010, reaching number 51 in the British Official Singles Charts. It has also been covered by numerous other artists. Band member Justin Hayward wrote and composed the song at age 19 while touring in Belgium[6] and titled the song after a girlfriend gave him a gift of satin bedsheets. The song itself was a tale of a yearning love from afar, which leads many aficionados to term it as a tale of unrequited love endured by Hayward. Hayward said of the song, The London Festival Orchestra provided the orchestral accompaniment for the introduction, the final rendition of the chorus, and the «final lament» section, all of which were in the original album version. The «orchestral» sounds in the main body of the song were actually produced by Mike Pinder's Mellotron keyboard device, which would come to define the «Moody (Blues)'s signature sound». The song is written in the key of E minor and features the Neapolitan chord (F). The two single versions of the song were both stripped of the orchestral and "Late Lament" poetry sections of the LP version. The first edited version, with the songwriter's credit shown as «Redwave», was a hasty - sounding 3:06 version of the LP recording with very noticeable chopped parts. However, many versions of the single are listed on the labels at 3:06, but in fact are closer to the later version of 4:26.

Album: Chor Und Orchester Werner Müller - Clair

Credits

Chorus: Chor Werner Müller
Orchestra: Orchester Werner Müller
Soloist, Trumpet: Bob Powels (tracks: A4, B4), Horst Fischer (tracks: B1, B3, B5, B6)

Companies, etc.

Record Company: TELDEC «Telefunken - Decca» Schallplatten GmbH

Label: Decca ‎– SLK 16907-P
Series: Phase 4 Stereo
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Germany
Released: 1973
Genre: Pop
Style: Easy Listening

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