Joyce Maier ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>...  Only two songs survived and can be heard sometimes on the various
>radio stations, at least here in the Netherlands:  "Nights in white satin"
>(beautiful melody) and "Tuesday afternoon" (mwah).  But try to find it,
>Kimberly, though I haven't the foggiest if it's available on CD (maybe Dave
>has?).

I'm sure it will be, although I share your opinion.  Actually I thought the
Moody Blues were never the same after Denny lane left c1965 to be replaced
by Justin Hayward.

And I still burst out laughing every time I hear Nights in White Satin,
becuase of the bathetic narration which follows "Night falls....." (I'll
not try the accent).

IMHO, the most successful collaboration I've ever heard involving rock
band, orchestra (and chorus) was the Grateful Dead's Terrapin Station from
c1977.

Ron Chaplin ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Procol Harum recorded Live at Edmonton with the Edmonton Symphony
>Orchestra, recorded at the Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada,
>18 November 1971.  The album was released in 1972.  Can it really be almost
>30 years ago?

I'd forgotten this, although it was largely orchestral accompaniments added
to previously existing songs - such as the hit off the LP, Conquistador.
Cf.  the original studio version and they're almost the same, except for
the addition of the orchestral parts, which IMHO wer pretty much
dispensible.

Deryk Barker
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