The Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of A Dream (1969) (Vinyl)

Year: 1969 (LP 1969)
Label: Deram Records (UK), DML1035 SML1035
Style: Symphonic Rock
Country: Birmingham, England
Time: 36:40
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 254 Mb

The Moody Blues formed in 1964 in Erdington, a suburb of Birmingham in the county of Warwickshire. Ray Thomas, a young John Lodge and (occasionally) Mike Pinder had been members of El Riot & the Rebels. They disbanded when Lodge, the youngest member, went to technical college and Pinder joined the army. Pinder then rejoined Thomas to form the Krew Cats. Back from a disappointing spell in the Hamburg region a few months later, the pair recruited guitarist/vocalist Denny Laine and band manager-turned-drummer Graeme Edge. Pinder and Thomas initially approached their former El Riot bandmate John Lodge about being the bass player, but Lodge declined as he was still in college. They instead recruited bassist Clint Warwick. The five appeared as the Moody Blues for the first time in Birmingham in 1964. The name developed from a hoped-for sponsorship from the Mitchells & Butlers Brewery which failed to materialise, the band calling themselves both "The M Bs" and "The M B Five", and was also a subtle reference to the Duke Ellington song "Mood Indigo". In an interview it was revealed that the band was named "Moody Blues" because Mike Pinder was interested in how music changes people's moods and due to the fact that the band was playing blues at the time. Around this time the band were the resident group at the Carlton Ballroom, later to become rock music venue Mothers on Erdington High Street.
On 1969's On the Threshold of a Dream, Hayward, Edge and Pinder share the opening narration on Edge's "In The Beginning", leading into Hayward's "Lovely To See You". His "Never Comes the Day" was issued as a UK single, while Thomas' wry observations of life in "Dear Diary" and "Lazy Day" were striking features. Pinder contributed the closing track on side one, "So Deep Within You". Side two closed with the "Dream Sequence", Edge's poem "The Dream" leading into Pinder's "Have You Heard?" parts I and II with the two parts separated by his classically themed instrumental piece "The Voyage".

Matrix Side A: ZAL-8827-2W, Side B: ZAL-8828-2W.

01. A1 In The Beginning (01:42)
02. A2 Lovely To See You (03:01)
03. A3 Dear Diary (03:57)
04. A4 Send Me No Wine (02:22)
05. A5 To Share Our Love (02:54)
06. A6 So Deep Within You (03:09)
07. B1 Never Comes The Day (04:46)
08. B2 Lazy Day (02:44)
09. B3 Are You Sitting Comfortably (03:35)
10. B4 The Dream (00:56)
11. B5 Have You Heard (Part 1) (02:18)
12. B6 The Voyage (03:20)
13. B7 Have You Heard (Part 2) (01:49)



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