“Nights In White Satin (Single Edit)” by The Moody Blues

Justin Hayward wrote "Nights in White Satin", and the Moody Blues first used it as "The Night", a segment of Days of Future Passed, before cutting it loose as a single in 1967. It was their first real chart action since "Go Now", and it arrived right after a lineup shake-up that swapped out Denny Laine and Clint Warwick for Hayward and John Lodge.

First time out it got to No. 19 in Britain and only 103 in the States. The 1972 reissue was another story: two weeks at No. 2 on the Hot 100, No. 1 on Cash Box and in Canada, and a gold record for more than a million American copies, the band's biggest single in the US. That 1972 release entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, and the song kept circling back, charting in Britain again in 1979 and 2010.

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