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''The Magnificent Moodies'' is the 1965 debut album by The Moody Blues, first released in the UK, and the first and only album featuring their R&B line-up of guitarist Denny Laine, bassist Clint Warwick, keyboardist Mike Pinder, flautist–percussionist Ray Thomas, and drummer Graeme Edge. Lead vocals were shared by Laine, Pinder and Thomas. The album is a collection of R&B and Merseybeat songs, including the cover of "Go Now", produced by Alex Wharton, that had been a Number 1 hit single earlier that year. For the U.S. release, on London Records, with the title of ''Go Now – The Moody Blues #1'', four songs were replaced and the tracks re-ordered. The album did not make the Record Retailer/Music Week chart even though it reached number 5 in August 1965 in the ''New Musical Express'' album chart. The U.S. album did not make the ''Billboard'' chart. Laine and Warwick left the group in 1966, and were replaced by guitarist Justin Hayward and bassist John Lodge respectively. At the height of The Moody Blues' U.S. success in 1970, Deram Records reissued the U.S. version of the album with a new cover and title, ''In the Beginning'' (DES-18051). As with the original album, the reissue did not chart. In the early 1980s, a double compilation album entitled ''A Dream'', which included the entire ''The Magnificent Moodies'' LP along with the A and B sides of Moody Blues singles released between 1965 and 1967 (prior to the release of the ''Days of Future Passed'' album) was issued in much of western Europe, but only available on import in the UK. In 1985 Intermediate Records reissued the album on vinyl and cassette as ''Go Now'', with a mixture of songs from the original UK and US albums plus songs that would eventually be included as bonus tracks on the CD issues. Decca Records UK first issued ''The Magnificent Moodies'' on CD in 1988 with 13 bonus tracks, with mastering by Anthony Hawkins. Repertoire Records issued an abridged version of the CD in the 1990s with only seven bonus tracks. In 2006 the CD was reissued again, this time with 14 bonus tracks including the rare "People Gotta Go" not found on the 1988 Decca version. The CD also included, for the first time, a speed-corrected and undistorted version of "Go Now". The 2006 Repertoire CD was remastered by Eroc (Joachim Ehrig), who was the leader of the 1970s German rock band Grobschnitt. Eroc described the project as follows:
==UK Decca Records 1965 track listing (The Magnificent Moodies)== Decca LK 4711 (mono only) All lead vocals by Denny Laine except where indicated ;Side One # "I'll Go Crazy" (James Brown) – 2:08 # "Something You Got" (Chris Kenner) – 2:47 # "Go Now" (Larry Banks, Milton Bennett) – 3:07 # "Can't Nobody Love You" (James Mitchell) – 3:57 # "I Don't Mind" (Brown) – 3:22 (lead singer: Mike Pinder) # "I've Got a Dream" (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich) – 2:48 (lead singers: Denny Laine, Clint Warwick) ;Side Two # "Let Me Go" (Denny Laine, Mike Pinder) – 3:09 # "Stop" (Laine, Pinder) – 2:01 # "Thank You Baby" (Laine, Pinder) – 2:24 # "It Ain't Necessarily So" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:15 (lead singer: Ray Thomas) # "True Story" (Laine, Pinder) – 1:41 # "Bye Bye Bird" (Sonny Boy Williamson II, Willie Dixon) – 2:45 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Magnificent Moodies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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