Monday, August 10, 2015

ATF: Poetic Notions

This series will include as many of my all-time favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make.  For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.



Nights in White Satin
The Moody Blues
Nights in white satin
Never reaching the end
Letters I’ve written
Never meaning to send
Beauty I’d always missed
With these eyes before
Just what the truth is
I can’t say anymore

‘Cause I love you
Yes I love you
Oh how
I love you

Gazing at people
Some hand in hand
Just what I’m going through
They can’t understand
Some try to tell me
Thoughts they cannot defend
Just what you want to be
You will be in the end

And I love you
Yes I love you
Oh how
I love you
Oh how
I love you

Nights in white satin
Never reaching the end
Letters I’ve written
Never meaning to send
Beauty I’ve always missed
With these eyes before
Just what the truth is
I can’t say anymore

‘Cause I love you
Yes I love you
Oh how
I love you
Oh how
I love you
‘Cause I love you
Yes I love you
Oh how
I love you
Oh how
I love you

Breathe deep in the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day’s useless energy’s spent

Impassioned lovers wrestle as one
Lonely man cries for love and has none
New mother picks up and suckles her son
Senior citizens wish they were young

Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colors from our sight
Red is grey and yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion



Lighter Shade of Pale
Procol Harum
We skipped a light fandango
Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kind of seasick
But the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray

And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale

She said there is no reason
And the truth is plain to see
That I wandered through my playing cards
And would not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast
And although my eyes were open
They might just as well have been closed

And so it was later
As the miller told his tale
That her face at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale

And so it was later…

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12 comments:

  1. At the risk of being overly complimentary I must say that these are both excellent choices.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Ann!!! Be assured that there is absolutely no risk of being overly complimentary when it comes to my involvement in a matter.

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  2. Yes! Know the Moody Blues and Nights in White Satin...wonderful lyrics and good melody. I particularly like Nana Mouskouri singing that song...

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Whiteangel!!! I will have to see about looking up Nana's version when I can.

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  3. Oh yes, the dreamy Moody Blues. Where we camped they always have nightly bands come in and I swear they get the best in the world. They played so many of my growing up oldies, and it felt like going back in time. You would have enjoyed it too!

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Karen!!! Oh yeah, that sounds like a place I would love to spend time at.

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  4. I was wondering when you were going to post Knights in Whiter Satin. That was the first song I recall sharing with my parents that they actually liked.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Stephen!!! I was wondering the same thing. For matching these two together was one of the first editions I put together when first gathering material for the series around two (maybe three?) years ago, but it kept getting put back in favor of others.

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  5. "Days of Future Passed"....what a great album that is. I still have the LP. I love the Moody Blues...always have. Only yesterday I played "Nights in White Satin" on YouTube!

    Back in late 1969 when I bought my new, you-beaut stereo system it was one of the first albums I bought, along with The Chambers Brothers (The Time Has Come), O.C. Smith's "Hickory Holler Revisited" and Blood, Sweat & Tears to spin on my new set-up along with the albums I already had. I was in music heaven!

    I've probably still got the Procol Harum LP here somewhere to...great song!

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    1. Thanks for stopping by, my dear Lee!!! The Moody Blues' Seventh Sojourn was one of first LPs I ever had. Ah, but I never did get to put together my killer stereo component system. There was this one guy, who had a Pioneer rack system with five or six different components that I would slobber over when over at his place way back when. Sigh.

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    2. At one stage we had a Pioneer system, too. And I still have the Seventh Sojourn LP, too.

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    3. Thanks for stopping by again, my dear Lee!!! As far as I knew back in the '70s, a Pioneer rack/component system was as good as one could get. I do not think the brand is nearly as highly regards these days, though.

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