During the week came the news that Denny Laine, first singer with The Moody Blues, the voice of number 1 hit Go Now, has gone.

The Moody Blues: Go Now

Laine later became a founder member of Wings,  As co-writer of Mull of Kintyre (with Paul McCartney) he had a bigger selling single than any the Beatles had.

In between The Moody Blues and his stint with Wings he was briefly in various other bands and found time to release two singles under his own name of which the song below was one I liked from first hearing his version. It wasn’t a hit for Denny but in 1972 became one for Colin Blunstone.

Denny Laine: Say You Don’t Mind

Brian Frederick Arthur Hines (Denny Laine)  29/10/ 1944 – 5/12/2023. So it goes.

Ex-Zombie Colin Blunstone had a few solo hits in the 70s.
This was one of them. Unfortunately the video isn’t synched. (Perhaps he was miming in the first place, but it sounds like a live performance.)

Colin Blunstone: Say You Don’t Mind

The song’s writer Denny Laine (he of the early Moody Blues and of Wings) had recorded it in the 60s.

Denny Laine: Say You Don’t Mind