My version of Nights in White Satin is a tribute to my wife and partner of the last 20 years. Our original story is recounted in a narrative at left and basically makes the statement - "when you know, you know."
Typically, I feature songs that I've written and produced. However, I think I would like to feature my version of a beautiful cover tune with a story behind it.
20 years ago, on January 2, 2004, I took a girl out for dinner. We had been talking and got along great, but we went out this night as friends only. We went to a local Mexican cuisine restaurant I had been wanting to try, so this was a new place for us both. The food was great and they even had a 3-piece Mariachi band playing from table to table. It was relaxing, the conversation was great and the food was fantastic. The band rolled around to our table at one point and the guitar player started by saying, "A love song for the lovers." We both laughed knowing we were only friends and having no idea just how prophetic that statement would end up being.
After dinner, she was going to head home and I asked her if she might like to come in and I would play her a few songs. It was truly a harmmless invitation and she accepted. We spent the next several hours with her going through my songbook and asking me to play various songs from it. This was no problem for me being it was my songbook and I knew them all quite well. After a while, she came across this song and I played it for her. She later told me she fell in love with me over this one song. This song became "our song" and we ended up getting married on February 28th of 2004 just 7 weeks later. Here we are 20 years later and still married. I guess the heart wants what the heart wants and sometimes it knows exactly what it needs for a lifetime.
My featured song, "our song", is a cover of the Moody Blues hit written by Justin Hayward that was released in 1967 from the album "Days of Future Passed". It was re-released in 1972 and hit number 1 at that time. The original song is iconic and surrounded with a spoken-word poem prelude and a beatiful orchestra piece leading into the next song on the album.
My version is considerably more simplified and starts off very acoustic (kind of my signature), but builds as the song goes along. It ends quite different from the original as I wanted to leave a message at the very end for my wife whom I love very deeply.
I hope you enjoy this song as much as I did recording it.
My version of Nights in White Satin is a tribute to my wife and partner of the last 20 years. Our original story is recounted in a narrative at left and basically makes the statement - "when you know, you know."