Not Friday On My Mind 17: Fly Me High
Posted in 1960s, Friday On My Mind, Music, The Moody Blues at 12:00 on 23 May 2014
(This is the way my mind works. One word different from last week’s title.)
This single comes from the time when Denny Laine and Clint Warwick had quit The Moody Blues and John Lodge and Justin Hayward had just joined the group. The change signalled a new direction in which they would play only their own songs, develop a more harmony based approach and an “orchestral” sound. Fly Me High was the new line-up’s first single and was something of a transitional song as Mike Pinder had yet to acquire what would become his trademark mellotron.
The hairy guys in the picture below would only appear a few years later. At the time of this recording they were much more clean-cut.
The Moody Blues: Fly Me High
Tags: Clint Warwick, Denny Laine, Friday On My Mind, John Lodge, Justin Hayward, mellotron, Mike Pinder, The Moody Blues
Denis Cullinan
24 May 2014 at 06:52
The Moody Blues! As is ‘Go Now!'(1965)?! We’re in the realm of radiocarbon dating here!
—-Yours,
The Old One (Denis C.)
P.S. If I had a bit of a garden in Scotland, I’d right away plant a monkey-puzzle tree. They can’t be grown where I live (New York) and no one likes them in those places where they can be grown.
jackdeighton
25 May 2014 at 12:40
Radiocarbon, Denis? I can do Argon dating! (See My Friday on my Mind posts from around May 2011, nos 53-56.) Go Now! is from the pre-Hayward and Lodge Moody days – before I got into the group but still later than my elder brother’s stuff.
The good lady and I like monkey-puzzle trees but they are very expensive. Our favourite crossword compiler (now alas, dead- so it goes,) named himself Araucaria after that plant.)
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