The Moody Blues all the time had a great ear for a success single, however the flip of the Nineteen Seventies witnessed their transition into an albums band. With an awesome succession of loosely conceptualized and extremely refined productions, they served discover of that evolution in the summertime of 1971, as they topped the British bestsellers with an album that contained no chart singles in any respect.
Each Good Boy Deserves Favour took its title from the mnemonic for the EGBDF traces of the treble clef. It was the album that contained Justin Hayward’s spectacular “The Story In Your Eyes,” a Prime 30 US single that was withdrawn from sale in Britain on the band’s request. However that didn’t cease the album from going all the best way to the highest.
The Moodies had reached No.1 within the UK with On The Threshold of a Dream in 1969. To Our Kids’s Kids’s Kids was stopped at No.2 by The Beatles’ Abbey Highway, however they had been to not be denied with 1970’s A Query of Steadiness, which had three weeks on the summit.
Then got here …Favour, which featured solo compositions by every of the 5 members of the band, in addition to the one Moody Blues tune to hold credit for the entire quintet, the opening “Procession.” Much more democratically, Messrs Hayward, Lodge, Thomas, Pinder, and Edge additionally shared lead vocals on the observe.
A short summer time run at No.1
The album entered the UK chart at No.2, and moved to the highest on August 14, 1971, changing the Sizzling Hits 6 assortment. That includes soundalike variations of latest hits, this was a preferred sequence within the days when compilations had been welcomed into the primary UK album countdown. That was the one week at No.1 for the Moodies’ album, nevertheless it proved its endurance by spending the following 4 weeks at No.3, and a complete of 9 within the Prime 10.
Within the US, by October 1971, it was gold, persevering with a formidable run by which all of their albums had achieved that RIAA certification. Cashbox noticed that the group and producer Tony Clarke had, in securing that sequence, “created music which has won them a wide and devoted following.”
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