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"Go Now" is a song composed by Larry Banks and Milton Bennett.  It was first recorded in January 1964 by Bessie Banks, and later became associated with The Moody Blues.

Bessie Banks version

The song was first recorded by Larry Banks's former wife, Bessie Banks. A 1962 demo recording by Bessie of the song was heard by songwriters and record producers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who re-recorded it and first released it in early 1964 on their Tiger label, and later reissued it on the Blue Cat label, the R&B/soul imprint of Red Bird. Her version reached #40 on the Cashbox R&B singles chart. 

Bessie Banks later commented:I remember 1963 Kennedy was assassinated; it was announced over the radio. At the time, I was rehearsing in the office of Leiber and Stoller. We called it a day. Everyone was in tears. "Come back next week and we will be ready to record 'Go Now'"; and we did so. I was happy and excited that maybe this time I’ll make it. 'Go Now' was released in January 1964, and right away it was chosen Pick Hit of the Week on W.I.N.S. Radio. That means your record is played for seven days. Four days went by, I was so thrilled. On day five, when I heard the first line, I thought it was me, but all of a sudden, I realized it wasn’t. At the end of the song it was announced, "The Moody Blues singing 'Go Now'." I was too out-done. This was the time of the English Invasion and the end of Bessie Banks’ career, so I thought. America's DJs had stopped promoting American artists.

Banks' recollections are questionable, because her single was released in the US in January 1964, and The Moody Blues' version was not released until November 1964 (in the UK) and January 1965 in the US.

The Moody Blues version

"Go Now!" was made popular internationally later in 1964 when an English beat group from Birmingham named The Moody Blues recorded it, with Denny Laine on guitar and lead vocals. When Denny Laine first heard Bessie Banks's version, he immediately told the rest of the band that they needed to record the song.

In contrast to other songs from their debut album The Magnificent Moodies, "Go Now!" contained many early elements of what later would become progressive rock, such as the lush instrumentation, the innovative variations of the Fifties Progression, as well as strong baroque elements that would later become hallmarks of prog rock.

Promotion and chart success

At the time the single was released, it was being promoted on television with one of the first purpose-made promotional films in the pop era, produced and directed by their co-manager Alex Wharton (who is the father of international DJ Sonny Wharton). The short film clip used to promote the single has a striking visual style that predates Queen's similar "Bohemian Rhapsody" video by a full decade. It also predates what The Beatles did with promotional films of their singles "Rain" and "Paperback Writer", both released in 1966. But, The Beatles had done many promotional films in 1964 and 1965.

The song reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in late January 1965.  In the US, "Go Now!" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 until mid-February 1965; it peaked at No. 10. 

The next chart successes for The Moody Blues would be with "Nights in White Satin" and "Tuesday Afternoon" in 1968.

Later performances

The Moody Blues had little success with singles after "Go Now!" in the mid-1960s, which led to Laine's departure from the band, later being replaced by Justin Hayward. Bassist Clint Warwick had already departed the band at this time. Rodney Clark had replaced him for a while before they recruited John Lodge. With the new lineup, The Moody Blues continued to perform "Go Now!" for a short time, up until they began writing their own material. Hayward sang the song during his first year with the band, and Ray Thomas attempted to sing it a couple of times himself. 

Laine continued to perform the song in concert during his years in Wings.  On June 21–23, 1976, at The Forum in Inglewood, CA, Laine performed "Go Now!" with the band Wings accompanying himself on piano, along with Paul McCartney on bass and vocals, Linda McCartney on vocals, Jimmy McCulloch on lead guitar, and Joe English on drums. This 
version of "Go Now" appears on the Wings Over America live album.  He also sang the song at the Birmingham Heart Beat Charity Concert 1986 raising money for the local children's hospital.

In January 1997, "Go Now" was released on The Very Best of the Moody Blues;  its release on this album was the first time it had been released on a Moody Blues compilation album. "Go Now!" was also released on the subsequent Moody Blues two-disc compilation album Anthology. 

Laine later covered "Go Now" in 2007 on his album Performs the Hits of Wings.  "Go Now!" was performed by Denny Laine with The Fab Faux on December 11, 2010, at Terminal 5 in New York City and February 26, 2011 at the State Theatre in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Charts

Credits 

* Denny Laine: guitar, lead vocal
* Clint Warwick: bass guitar, backing vocal
* Mike Pinder: piano, backing vocal
* Ray Thomas: backing vocal
* Graeme Edge: drums, backing vocal

Other versions

It was recorded by David Cassidy on his 1972 album Rock Me Baby.

"Go Now" was later recorded by Ozzy Osbourne in 2005 for his Under Cover album and by Simply Red in 2008 for their Simply Red 25: The Greatest Hits compilation.

The song is also in the musical Return to the Forbidden Planet.

Song in popular culture

*The original Bessie Banks version of "Go Now" was included on the soundtrack to the film Stonewall.
*The Moody Blues version is played over the credits after the final anniversary dance scene with Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtney in the film 45 Years.
*The version by The Moody Blues was used on the satirical British television show Spitting Image in a scene concerning then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. "Nights in White Satin" is a 1967 single by The Moody Blues, written and composed by Justin Hayward and first featured as the segment "The Night" on the album Days of Future Passed. When first released in 1967, the song reached #19 on the UK Singles Chart. It was the first significant chart entry by the team since "Go Now" and its recent lineup change, in which Denny Laine had resigned and both Hayward and John Lodge had joined.

It charted at #2 in November 1972 on the Billboard Hot 100 (behind "I Can See Clearly Now" by Johnny Nash) and #1 on Cash Box in the United States, earning a Gold certification for sales of a million copies. It also reached #1 in Canada. In the wake of its U.S. success, the song re-charted in the UK in late 1972 and climbed to #9. The song was re-released yet again in 1979, and charted for a third time in the UK at #14.

Production

Band member Justin Hayward wrote and composed the song at age 19 in Swindon, and titled the song after a girlfriend gave him a gift of satin bedsheets. The song itself was a tale of a yearning love from afar, which leads many aficionados to term it as a tale of unrequited love endured by Hayward.

The London Festival Orchestra provided the orchestral accompaniment for the introduction, the final rendition of the chorus, and the "final lament" section, all of which were in the original album version. The "orchestral" sounds in the main body of the song were actually produced by Mike Pinder's Mellotron keyboard device,  which would come to define the "Moody Blues sound."

The song is written in the key of E minor  and features the Neapolitan chord (F). 

Single releases

There are two single versions of the song, both stripped of the orchestral and "Late Lament" poetry sections of the LP version. The first edited version, with the songwriter's credit shown as "Redwave," was a hasty sounding 3:06 version of the LP recording with very noticeable chopped parts. However, there are many versions of the single that are listed on the labels at 3:06, but in fact are closer to the later version of 4:26.

Some versions, instead of ending cold as most do, segue briefly into the symphonic second half ("Late Lament") and, in fact, run for 4:33 (but are also listed on the label as 3:06). For the second edited version (with the song's writing credited to Hayward), the early parts of the song were kept intact, ending early at 4:26. Most single versions were backed with a non-LP B-side, "Cities."

Although it only had limited commercial success on its first release, the song has since garnered much critical acclaim, ranking #36 in BBC Radio 2's "Sold on Song Top 100" list.

"Late Lament"

The spoken-word poem heard near the six-minute mark of the album version of the song is called "Late Lament". Drummer Graeme Edge wrote the verses, which were recited by keyboardist Mike Pinder. On Days of Future Passed, the poem's last five lines bracket the album and also appear at the end of track 1 ("The Day Begins").

While it has been commonly known as part of "Nights in White Satin" with no separate credit on the original LP, "Late Lament" was given its own listing on the two-LP compilation This Is The Moody Blues in 1974 and again in 1987 (without its parent song) on another compilation, Prelude. Both compilations feature the track in a slightly different form than on Days of Future Passed, giving both spoken and instrumental tracks an echo effect. The orchestral ending is kept intact, but recording engineers have completely edited out the gong (struck by Mike Pinder) that closes the track on the original LP.

From 1992 through the early 2000s, the Moody Blues toured with shows backed by live orchestras. When with orchestral accompaniment, they often took the opportunity to include "Late Lament" in the performance of "Nights in White Satin". On these occasions, Edge recited it himself, since Pinder was not in the band at that point.

False claim of authorship

In the late 1990s, the UK magazine Record Collector printed a claim that "Nights in White Satin" had not been written by Justin Hayward at all, but that in fact the Moody Blues' management had simply bought the song outright in 1966 from an Italian group called The Jelly Roll and taken credit for it. This claim seems to have arisen from the discovery of a 7" single by The Jelly Roll which carries the words "This is the original version of Nights in White Satin" on the label.

Actually, "Les Jelly Roll" was a French band who did this cover of the Moody Blues song, and had the opportunity to release it in Italy, on Ricordi (an Italian record label), a few months before the original was released there. So as a joke (they appear not to have been a very serious band), they put the famous sentence on the cover.  

Personnel

* Justin Hayward - acoustic guitar, lead vocals
* Ray Thomas - flute, backing vocals
* Mike Pinder - mellotron, backing vocals, narration (on "Late Lament"), gong
* John Lodge - bass, backing vocals
* Graeme Edge - drums, backing vocals, percussion

;Additional personnel
* Peter Knight and the London Festival Orchestra - orchestral arrangements

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Year-end charts

Theme park attraction and other uses

The work was reinterpreted as the focus of Nights in White Satin: The Trip, a dark ride at the Hard Rock Park (now Freestyle Music Park) theme park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U.S.A. The attraction, which included 3D-black light and fiber-optic lighting effects and purpose-made films, was developed by Sally Corporation and Jon Binkowski of Hard Rock Park. Riders entered through a bead curtain, were provided 3D glasses, and upon return were greeted with the question, "How was your Trip?" Visual effects, digital CGI and special effects were designed, produced, and installed by Attraction Design Services; ride vehicles were from ETF.

The attraction operated as "The Trip" for the single 2008 season the park operated as Hard Rock Park, but was rethemed with the sale and retitling of the park; "park officials said the experience will be similar but the presentation will be changed." 

Other uses of the song

*This was used as the title song of the now obscure 1987 TV movie Nights in White Satin.
*This song was featured in Wolfgang Petersen's 1991 film Shattered.
*This song was featured in the 1992 film Split Second.
*This song was featured in Robert De Niro's 1993 film A Bronx Tale.
*This song was featured in Martin Scorsese's 1995 film Casino.
*This song was played briefly in the King of the Hill episode "The Trouble with Gribbles," which was originally transmitted in 2001.
*This song was featured in Rob Zombie's 2009 film Halloween II, a sequel to his 2007 remake of the 1978 film Halloween.
*This song was featured in Bertrand Bonello's 2011 film House of Tolerance.
*This song was played over the opening credits of Tim Burton's 2012 film Dark Shadows.
*This song was featured in the 2006 comedy/parody film American Dreamz.
*This song was featured in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, a novel by Stephen Chbosky, as it appeared on a music playlist compiled by the novel's protagonist, Charlie.
*This song was featured in The Boat That Rocked.
*This song was featured in the Heath Kirchart segment in the 2001 Transworld Skateboarding video Sight Unseen.
*The song was featured in the Wiseguy episode "No One Gets Out of Here Alive," in the climactic scene between Vinnie Terranova and Sonny Steelgrave. This was removed in the DVD release.
*The song was featured in the TV movie The 70s.
*This song was featured in Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo when Deuce got high on space cake.
*This song was featured in the Fringe episode "In Absentia," appearing in the background as Walter Bishop addresseed his future self on a video tape.
*This song was featured in the Freaks and Geeks episode "Girlfriends and Boyfriends."

Sandra version

"Nights in White Satin" is a pop-rock cover version of the selection written and composed by Justin Hayward, which was performed by the German singer Sandra. The song appeared on Sandra's sixth studio album Fading Shades (1995).

It was produced by Michael Cretu and received mixed reception from music critics. The song was released as the lead single in the spring of 1995 (see 1995 in music), although it failed to match the success of Sandra's previous singles. The song peaked at No'1 in Israel (spending 2 weeks at the top), No'17 in Finland, and No'34 in New Zealand (Sandra's only charting hit there).
In Germany it only peaked at No'86, becoming her least successful lead single in that country to date. In the United Kingdom, it failed to enter the chart.

The music video, directed by Angel Hart, showed only close ups of Sandra's face as she was pregnant at the time. She even had to sit during the recording sessions of the album. (Note that the Fading Shades album cover was taken from the music video.) 

Charts

Other cover versions

* Franck Pourcel (Instrumental) 1967
* I Nomadi "Ho difeso il mio amore" (Nights in White Satin) on I Nomadi (album, 1968)
* Dalida Un Po D'amore (1968)
* Tommy Körberg "Nights in White Satin," on Nature boy (album, 1968) and "Nätter av saknad," Swedish version, on Judy min vän (album, 1969)
* Billie Davis (Decca F12977, single, 1969)
* Eric Burdon and War (The Black-Man's Burdon album, 1970)
* Johnny Maestro & the Brooklyn Bridge, "The Brooklyn Bridge" (album, 1970)
* Tim Weisberg "Fog and Spice" (LP,'72/flute rendition, A&M Records/West Hollywood)   
* Deodato (Deodato 2 album, 1973)
* Juliane Werding "Wildes Wasser," German version (single, 1973)
* Giorgio Moroder (Knights in White Satin album, 1976)
* The London Symphony Orchestra (Classic Rock album, 1977)
* Bermuda Triangle Band (Bermuda Triangle album, 1977)
* The Dickies (Dawn of the Dickies album, 1979)
* Marie Laforêt "Blanche nuit de satin," French version (single, 1982)
* Elkie Brooks (UK #32 Chart Hit 1982) (Pearls II album, 1982)
* Jon St. James (Trans-Atlantic, 1984)
* The Shadows (Moonlight Shadows album, 1986) (Instrumental version)
* Jacky Cheung (昨夜夢魂中 (In My Dream Last Night) on his 昨夜夢魂中 album, 1988)
* James Last (Instrumental) 1991
* Alain Bashung (Osez Joséphine album, 1991)
* David Lanz (Skyline Firedance album, 1992) 
* Nancy Sinatra (One More Time album, 1995)
* Lucie Bílá "Noc je jak satén" – Czech version (1998)
* The Bates - German Punk band version on album 2nd Skin (2000)
* Sort Sol (Snakecharmer album, 2001)
* Mario Frangoulis ("Nights in White Satin" – Notte Di Luce on his Sometimes I Dream album, 2002)
* The Vision Bleak ("Nights in White Satin" – on Songs of Good Taste EP, 2001)
* God Is an Astronaut ("NIWS", The End of the Beginning album, 2002)
* Tori Amos covered this song several times on tour during 2003 and 2005.
* John Cowan and Moody Bluegrass, (Moody Bluegrass album, 2004)
* Declan Galbraith (Thank You album, 2006)
* Il Divo (Notte Di Luce on their Siempre album, 2006)
* Glenn Hughes with John Frusciante and Chad Smith (Music For The Divine album, 2006) (Used in the movie Stealth)
* Quidam (Track 7, "Nights in White Satin," on album HalfPlugged, 2007)
* Tina Arena on her album Songs of Love & Loss II, 2008
* Midnight Movies (Nights EP, 2008)
* Fariborz Lachini A Solo Piano version on his Golden Memories 1 album, 2008
* Collide (These Eyes Before album, 2009) 
* Eugene McCarthy ("De Barras, Sitting Room Sessions" 2010)
* Zeds Dead (Dubstep Remix 2010)
* Will Martin (Inspirations album, 2010)
* The Man-Eating Tree (on their Vine album, 2010)
* Bettye LaVette (Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook album, 2010)
* Gerry & The Pacemakers – Nights in White Satin
* Offer Nissim featuring Ivri Lider – Nights in White Satin (Offer Nissim Remix)
* Jennifer Rush
* Damien Saez (multiple live performances)
* Celtic Thunder (Performed by Celtic Thunder member Paul Byrom)
* Blumfeld (B-Side of Single Tics and live performances)
* Rock Goddess (Live performances)
* Ed Kavalee On Get This
* Matt Cardle (B-Side To The When We Collide Single)
* Transatlantic on their 2014 progressive rock album Kaleidoscope (bonus disc)
* Emily West performed it during the Top 12 of season 9 of America's Got Talent
* Nokturnal Mortum covered it in the remastered version of  The Voice of Steel
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