I recommend The Magnificent Moodies album to everyone who loves good and fine music from all decades, but the original recording Decca MONO LP 4711 is hard to find, and I'm not selling each of my two copies...
Wow. I grew up with the Days of Future Passed album and this is much different... I'll definitely buy a copy of their first album if I ever see it anywhere!
This James Brown classic opens The Magnificent Moodies LP album, may be the finest british vinyl recording in the 60's, by the original Moody Blues featuring Denny Laine and Clint Warwick still there.The LP's high musical level, instrumentation, finesses in playing and vocalisationlng and the elegancy in general must be some sort of a legend. I have enjoyed this british classical rhytm'n blues album now over 46 years and still enjoying it!
they reverse the "message", singing "you gotta leave your SELF" instead of you've gotta live FOR YOURSELF", pre-figuring a "Question of Balance" , in a way...
.... and Denny Lane was probably the one who gave direction to this band, that we can still look back to with no small degree of affection and nostalgia