Friday Music

This is one of my personal Top Ten Tunes.  And this video is the first published on the blog to launch some of the oddball music that finds its way here every Friday. 

Originally released on The Moody Blues 1967 album Days of Future Passed - a concept album chronicling a typical day – this song was subsequently released as a single in 1968. 

According to an interview with Justin Hayward, he composed this tune while sitting in the middle of a field near his home in England on a beautiful spring afternoon. He claims that he had his acoustic guitar in hand and the song just came to him. The song features Hayward on lead vocals and acoustic guitar. The backing melody comes from the mellotron, which was played by Mike Pinder. There is also a short flute solo at the end played by Ray Thomas. 

Fun Fact:  The jeans worn by Ray Thomas in this video are identical to jeans I wore in 1969.  Tie-dyed with black spattered ink accents.  High style.  Traveling in Germany that summer  my trousers would periodically draw the gaze of the locals and hushed comments like:  Das Hosen! Good taste, Ray.  But I might have beat you to it.

Tuesday Afternoon.....