Talk:Nights in White Satin

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Did you know... that the song "Nights in White Satin," largely ignored on its first release in 1967, reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 when it was re-released in 1972?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/June.

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"London Festival Orchestra... provided the musical accompaniment heard throughout..."

Not sure that's true. It sounds to me like the orchestral pieces on Days of Future Passed are only heard between the band's recordings. I'm guessing there wouldn't have been enough tracks in those days to add orchestral backing to the songs, so the orchestra just provides bridging passages around and between the band's contributions. Most of the strings on "Nights in White Satin" are obviously mellotron tapes. Lee M 00:24, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I always took it to mean ONLY the music between the band played tunes which do actually appear throughout the album. Your point is well-taken though.THX1136 (talk) 23:25, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In the part about Sandra there is this, quite funny passage: "The music video, directed by Angel Hart, showed only close ups of Sandra's face as she was extremely pregnant at the time." Although it's funny, I don't see how one can be extremely pregnant. Someone's pregnant, or not. --60darling (talk) 18:12, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

THE GONG (or NOT THE GONG)

The article says the gong at the end of the extended track has been edited out in most versions. I just bought the extended track -- with the Lament -- from Amazon in 2015 and the gong sound is most definitely present at the end of the 7 minute track.

PS  It is easy to understand what "extremely pregnant" means.   One is extremely

pregnant if one is very late in the pregnancy and therefore showing. One is a "little" pregnant if one is in an early month and not showing. Chesspride 66.19.84.2 (talk) 06:17, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Again with how the song was written?

"After he heard about white satin, and nights" is surely someone being silly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.158.122.94 (talk) 22:16, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

KKK reference?

"Band member Justin Hayward wrote the song at age nineteen, after he heard about the KKK and the wonderful things they were doing in the Southern United States"

This seems sort of weird. I've done some research but I haven't seen any reliable source that suggests this connection between the song and the KKK. In any way, if so, I believe that this paragraph gives a strange impression. The Klu Klux Klan isn't spelt out and there's no link, there is no citation for this and "wonderful things", ironic or serious, isn't what you'd expect a comment about the KKK to say. It also sounds far too "by the way" like. Unless, of course, I am misunderstanding the meaning of "KKK" in this context, I believe that this is a very objectionable point about this article. Rather seems like somebody brought this up as a joke or propaganda, but I may be wrong.

--Jay R.77.179.223.187 14:46, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I left the UK in December 1964. "Nights in white satin" featured on the BBC program "Saturday Club" in I think September or October 1964. I am quite certain about this as Brian Matthew made quite a big point about Justin Haywards new and amazing organ, which gave the then incredible sound. It was, and still is a memorable song, and I waited for three long years for it to be released in Australia, when I finally was able to buy it. I do not think anyone should mention the KKK in reference to this song. Us oldies might have heart attacks from laughing so much! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.167.203.90 (talk) 12:26, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

atrocious, typical wikipedia accident (E-Kartoffel (talk) 10:44, 5 April 2010 (UTC))[reply]

I was in Germany at the time this was a hit in 1967, and I distinctly remember seeing the 45 German version had the title "Knights in White Satin". "Knights" made no sense to me at the time, making me mentally picture an unending row of knights dressed in soft white satin, bearing jousting lances. But after now reading the supposed KKK link, the image switches to an unending row of KKK members in regalia (the full name of the KKK included the work "Knights"). When I bought the album I was puzzled as to why the word spelling was changed to "Nights", and finally assumed the 45 title spelling must have been a joke. Pikabruce (talk) 01:21, 16 October 2020 (UTC)Pikabruce (talk) 20:28, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

According to the album article, Hayward says it was written at a time when he was 'breaking up' with woman (who, incidentally, had given him the satin sheets as a present) and looking forward to the next possible relationship. The thought about the KKK is most likely unsubstantiated music lore with no basis in fact OR Hayward lied in the interview where the info was taken from in the album article. Take your pick.THX1136 (talk) 23:31, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"defining the Moody Blues sound"

As yet unsourced, but clearly true [1]. Peter Damian (talk) 09:17, 26 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe this could make a good enough citation: https://www.allmusic.com/song/nights-in-white-satin-mt0026913065 O0drogue0o (talk) 10:14, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Actually written by The Easybeats?

On the oldies radio webstream station I listen to (which is hardly more than a playlist), they have this short documentary format, five minutes in length, where each episode is about a famous song or band, and because the whole station is more of a playlist than an actual radio station, I know all the episodes by heart already. Regarding Nights in white Satin, the format claims that it was actually a song by The Easybeats that they had performed during a live program at the BBC that the members of the Moody Blues just happened to listen to. They were so excited they wanted to have a copy and phoned the BBC, but the BBC said they'd already wiped the tape. This bit so far about the Easybeats and the wiped BBC tape is even attested during the episode by an original interview soundbite from one of the members of Moody Blues. The episode's narrator then goes on that because they couldn't get a copy of the Easybeats song, they just jumped at the next opportuinity to record their own cover of the song, which was when Decca sent them for recording sessions with the London Symphonic Orchestra where they were supposed to record a rock version of Antonín Dvořák's From the New World, but the band just slipped the orchestra the notes to the Easybeats song they'd written down during the original performance at the BBC, and the result was basically another live song, because they only had time for one take until their producers at Decca would notice. --2003:71:4E33:E518:168:78:D9DE:CD51 (talk) 22:57, 26 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Peak position in France

French number one single
(The Moody Blues version)
2 March 1968, for three weeks

or

France (SNEP)[13]	95

Which is correct? --Helios13 (talk) 20:04, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nights in White Satin charting in 1979 and 2010

I believe NIWS charted in 1979; the article cites a 1979 Irish chart but does not mention it in the intro section. Can anyone send links or other info helping to create a citation for NIWS charting in 1979? Also, it would be greatly appreciated if there were additional citations for NIWS charting in 2010 to add to what I have put in today? Thanks in advance.JeffreyKrasner (talk) 18:57, 19 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ueseless Illusions by the Flames

...sounds very much like NIWS. Did anyone notice? Münzberg (talk) 07:42, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]