<P> "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 number 19 on the UK Singles Chart and number 103 in the United States in 1967 . It was the first significant chart entry by the band since "Go Now" and its recent lineup change, in which Denny Laine had resigned and both Hayward and John Lodge had joined . </P> <P> Upon its 1972 reissue, the single hit number two--for two weeks--on the Billboard Hot 100 (behind "I Can See Clearly Now" by Johnny Nash) and hit number one on the Cash Box Top 100 in the United States . It earned a gold certification for sales of over a million U.S. copies . It also hit number one in Canada . In the wake of its American success, the song recharted in the U.K. in late 1972 and climbed to number nine . The song was released yet again in 1979, and charted for a third time in the U.K.--peaking at number 14 . </P> <P> 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 . Hayward said of the song, "It was just another song I was writing and I thought it was very powerful . It was a very personal song and every note, every word in it means something to me and I found that a lot of other people have felt that very same way about it ." </P> <P> 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". </P>

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