The Moody Blues (with Denny Laine) - Go Now

[ificandream]

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[IcyPeas]

1. what a great song.... from 1964.

I was only 7 years old when this was a hit but I have a brother who is 9 years older than me and he bought this single. I grew up listening to a lot of good music thanks to older siblings.

[highplainsdem]

2. Great song! But for me the "real" Moodies are the band they became

when Justin Hayward and John Lodge joined.

[ificandream]

3. But I don't think anything else would have happened without "Go Now."

I remember it as a huge huge hit in 1965. (It made the Top 10 on Billboard.)

https://www.billboard.com/artist/the-moody-blues/

[highplainsdem]

4. It was a big hit, and I do love that song, always have.

It's impossible to know what would have happened for the band without that hit, and the same is true - for any number of different circumstances - for all artists. One song, one manager, one record label, one change in artistic direction, one change in band lineup, one change in the geographic market aimed for, one change in what that market is ready for (timing), can lead to an entirely different outcome.

When you see a very long and very successful career, it's like a jenga tower. Almost impossible to know which changes would have had a certain effect.

It's never simply a matter of talent. Way too many talented artists never have any commercial success, or just brief commercial success.

But the first version of the Moodies would probably never have done anything like the albums the Hayward/Lodge version did. And the Hayward/Lodge version wasn't successful trying to continue what the first version of the band had done. For that matter, the first version of the Moodies hadn't been able to duplicate the success of "Go Now."

Hayward and Lodge together were able to create music very close to what the Moodies as a band had done, though, with Blue Jays.