Story has it when Jimmy Webb wrote MacArthur Park no one would record it (The Association turned it down). So they found Richard Harris (a non-singing actor) to record it. The rest is history...
On Jul 29, 2010, at 4:10 PM, Bob Snyder wrote:
On the scale of Moody insipidness, all of those pale in comparison to Hayward's Classic Blue. Twelve ghastly covers including Tracks of my Tears, MacArthur Park, and Stairway to Heaven among other gems.
Bob S.
Bruce Daily wrote:Hi again-Oh, yeah, "Songwrighter", "The Promise", Lodge's "Natural Avenue" were all pretty bad. Didn't hear any of Ray Thomas' or Graeme Edge's stuff.I liked the cover art on "The Promise", using colors produced from polarized light through crystals to produce a stained-glass look.-Bruce D.
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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: King Crimson's Mk2 Trons
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Date: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 11:39 AMHi all-"Blue Jays" struck a chord with me at the time, so I kind of enjoyed it (at the time). Some of the songs were interesting, but the orchestrations were far over the top. Simplicity would've helped. I wondered what a bit of Pinder mellotron would've done for it? I hear some of it recently, and cringed a bit.-Bruce D.
--- On Thu, 7/29/10, ClayE wrote:
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Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: King Crimson's Mk2 Trons
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Date: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 8:12 AMForever Autumn and Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds was the only highlight from that time period. It's only a tiny bit insipid.
I always assumed that Hayward wrote the song or at least the lyrics but apparently not. (Jeff Wayne, Gary Osborne and Paul Vigrass)
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> >I am with you. The Blue Jays album was more insipid if that's even
> >possible. The biggest let down of all was MP's The Promise. Bore-fest.
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> >> Andy
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> >> NP - Justin Hayward, 'Songwriter' . What an insipid, lifeless album.
> >> Anyone with me on this?
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> They're all absolutely terrible. I'm not the Moodies' biggest fan, but in
> comparison to any of these...
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> Andy T.
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