Vinyl Album - The Moody Blues With The London Festival Orchestra - Days Of Future Passed - Deram

Vinyl Album

Artist:	The Moody Blues With The London Festival Orchestra
Title:	Days Of Future Passed
Label:	Deram
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	SML 707
Date:	10 Nov 1967
Format:	Stereo LP (also Mono LP)
Genre:	Progressive, Rock
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	52 Own, 1 Wants
Price Guide:	$19
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PRICE GUIDE

$19

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	The Moody Blues With The London Festival Orchestra	The Day Begins	Redwave, Knight	7.5 Rate
A2	The Moody Blues With The London Festival Orchestra	Dawn: Dawn Is A Feeling	Pinder	7.5 Rate
A3	The Moody Blues With The London Festival Orchestra	The Morning: Another Morning	Redwave, Knight	8.0 Rate
A4	The Moody Blues With The London Festival Orchestra	Lunch Break: Peak Hour	Redwave, Knight	8.5 Rate
B1	The Moody Blues With The London Festival Orchestra	The Afternoon: Forever Afternoon (Tuesday?) : Time To Get Away	Hayward, Redwave, Knight	8.0 Rate
B2	The Moody Blues With The London Festival Orchestra	Evening: The Sun Set: Twilight Time	Pinder, Redwave, Knight	8.3 Rate
B3	The Moody Blues With The London Festival Orchestra	The Night: Nights In White Satin	Hayward	9.0 Rate

Notes

With the London Festival Orchestra

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Comments and Reviews


Focus B 17th Sep 2023		As there are notable differences between the "standard" and the very first UK pressings, I've uploaded them separately.



David Whiteley 4th Sep 2023		Another set of brown variant labels added. These are the large labels and have text under the DERAM box.



TonyBrown999 12th May 2023		Congrats Focus, these aren't easy to locate, possibly harder to spot due to the vast number of normal copies that are out there. I just checked my Sparta Florida gold disc (Hal Shaper) for £250k sales and noticed that the label is slightly different to those shown here. Its closest to image 745670 but, the positioning of the red & black elements of the main logo show they're offset - I've uploaded an image of this.



Focus B 30th Apr 2023		Fantastic Tony, can't pretend I'm not green with envy!



TonyBrown999 10th Oct 2022		Added my 2W/2W Stereo with small black "The Moody Blues" text. Twilight time is omitted from the cover track list and label. The poem has "But we decide which ONE is right" The labels have short Redwave, Knight credits below the titles (same as on my 1W/1W copy) The matrices are inverted.



Focus B 14th Dec 2021		Wordnwot mentions a very early issue without the artist credit. It also omits "Time To Get Away" on the label with the entire album credited to Redwave-Knight. All tracks published by Essex music. This was available in both mono and stereo with images on Discogs. Trying to secure such an early copy has so far been impossible. I wonder if it was withdrawn very quickly in view of the incorrect publishing details for the Mike Pinder and Justin Hayward compositions. Were they actually sold to the public?



Hawkmarty SUBS 24th Jul 2021		Focus B. Turns out I have a J/T issue with 1W & 1W sides as well.



Focus B 19th Jul 2021		Hawkmarty: The opposite to mine which is ZAL 8078-1W and ZAL 8079-2W!



Hawkmarty SUBS 19th Jun 2021		@Focus B A side: ZAL- 8078 - 2W B side: ZAL - 8079 - 1W



Focus B 19th Jun 2021		Hawkmarty- Would be interesting to hear what the matrix numbers are on your own earlier copy.



Hawkmarty SUBS 6th Feb 2021		Full size red DSS labels with J/T tax code above matrix numbers.



David Whiteley 3rd Aug 2020		Added red DSS labels which seem to be the type that rocket666 commented on. The labels also have a re-designed track and credit lay-out. The record is in the first type, banded sleeve.



rocket666 27th Apr 2020		Yet another label variation, possibly between 2nd and 3rd shown. Red DSS type with speed above GEMA, BIEM, NCB unboxed and STEREO underneath - to left. Right of label is date, matrix and Cat no, again on 3 lines. Titles remain highlighted, and this all in 2nd sleeve version; and ZAL-8078-5C / ZAL-8079-5C stamped in run outs.



Gilberts004 16th Oct 2019		two more later labels added



ppint. 14th Jun 2017		yes, thank-you kindly, yr hmbl srppnt. was aware of decca's panoramic sound system - that allowed a considerably wider stereo sound than was 'til then the norm, and for greater subtlety within the stereophonic audio spread; that "days of future passed" might instead have been the moody blues' new world symphony-based equivalent to elp's treatment of pictures at an exhibition, had they simply accepted decca's request instead of making their counter-offer, has been known for just shy of fifty years, and is generally accepted to've been our gain, i think :-)



MR B PAGE 13th Jun 2017		Did you know,in September 1967,the group were asked to do an adaptation of the New World Symphony by Antonin Dvorak for Decca`s newly formed Deram Records division in order to demonstrate their recording techniques,which were named `Deramic Sound`.



TheDroid 31st Jan 2017		Added cleaner back cover (#527717) with acknowledgement of original uploader TerenceArcher.



Focus B 27th Dec 2016		There's a photo on this site showing the large brown mono label used for a stereo pressing of this album. Same as my mono copy with the matrix number the right way up. http://www.bsnpubs.com/london/deram/deram.html



Focus B 27th Nov 2016		Well I never, just picked up a nice earlier copy with full sized ringed labels and upside down matrix numbers. Side A is 1W, Side 2 2W. Probably a second press as the group name is on the labels, Circa 1968 Except in mono I've never seen a stereo issue as early as this. EDIT- Labels now uploaded.



Focus B 29th May 2016		Recently obtained a copy with the original banded sleeve yet with smaller red DSS labels suggesting late 1969 onwards. Matrix's end 3W both sides. Has the original mix of "Twilight Time".



wordnwot 17th Jun 2015		Focus B, those light brown labels are the small type. According to Jan Pettersson's Labelography Volume 2, page 71 the very first release of DOFP from Nov 1967 did not include The Moody Blues nor The London Festival Orchestra on the label but did include the Album title. Interestingly, In Search of the lost chord DML and SML 711 included the band name but not the Album title.



Focus B 16th Jun 2015		Fascinating to see the re-used mono labels. They look to be the smaller sized ones suggesting mid 1969 onwards This would appear to suggest some later mono pressings of this, 'Lost Chord" and other mono DSS albums may exist with this label?



wordnwot 14th Jun 2015		Uploaded 2nd type with blue THE MOODY BLUES text (1st type had black text) 'Banded' cover and the Light Brown re-used defunct mono labels for Post Spring 1969 Stereo release (used up till they ran out, presumably) matrix ending 3W



Magic Marmalade 15th May 2015		Incidentally the matrices for my copy with the labels I've uploaded are 4W ending.



Magic Marmalade 15th May 2015		I wondered if anybody had snipped Twilight Time and uploaded it on Youtube... and of course, they have. I Can't get this out of my head! (Does this sound Pink Floyd-ish to you?)



Magic Marmalade 14th May 2015		Just finished recording it. Quite a good album I have to say, but can see it will take a few listens to really get into it. I see what you mean about Twilight Time.... on mine it's pretty good, as the main vocal is to the fore, and the backing vocals are some way distant and quite muted by comparisson. ... but wow, Twilight Time sounds exactly like Syd Barett era Floyd! Either that's what they were aiming for or the influence just seeped into the song. Also, never heard the full version of Nights In White Satin before, just the single edits we're all familiar with, which usually sound chopped, or fade out too rapidly before that orchestral sweep at the end, and the spoken word/poetry bit. Sounds fuller and better spaced than the single versions I've heard too.



Magic Marmalade 14th May 2015		Just done a little nosing about on ebay, and "mousing over images etc. of this title, and it seems different label designs could be found in different sleeves... I did see a couple of stereo copies with the white band at top, one of which had the labels Terence uploaded, so no clear consistency of label and sleeve. Also, interestingly, there is a label variation of the ones I uploaded: The DSS labels: There is a dot missing in the Cat# on mine, and the P. 1967 has been moved from the bottom to the mid right-hand side on mine, and the Speed 33 1/3 is absent on the other I saw. I would tentatively suggest that there is one label before mine with these subtle differences, and then the Red semi-circle Deram designs.



Neil Forbes 13th May 2015		Could've been so, MM, that might explain why the labels on some Decca-issue releases were smaller than on others.



Magic Marmalade 13th May 2015		It seems that there was at some point, a disparity between Decca (And subsidiary labels) label makers and the vinyl pressing plant.



Neil Forbes 13th May 2015		MM, I also have some LPs where the label does not fully cover the are it's meant to on the disc. I had seen one once on the London label in my early years at Port Stephens FM community radio, it was a British-issue Roy Orbison compilation, but the three I have in my collection are MAM-label issues by Gilbert O'Sullivan.



biffbampow 13th May 2015		I personally prefer the original mix. The newer mix, as clearly demonstrated on "Twilight Time" sounds more cluttered and is where the differences between the two are clearly heard whereas throughout the rest of the album, it's more subtle. Sonically it sounds fine, and in parts better but it's the original mix I go for every time when I listen to this album. Some prefer the remix... I guess it's all down to ones tastes.



Magic Marmalade 13th May 2015		Can't wait to listen to it then! I'll have to shunt it up to the head of the recording queue, so I can report back... which is better though, the remix or the original (did they change it for good reason?). Thanks for info biff.



biffbampow 13th May 2015		The white band cover was phased out in the late 70's when the album was remixed since the original stereo master tape had apparently worn out. I have a 1967 original copy and mine has the DSS label, so sounds like you've got an original vinyl mix and pressing inside a reissued sleeve. That's no bad thing. Best way to tell which mix you have is on "Twilight Time" - the remixed version left in backing vocals throughout the entire song whereas the original mix used them just on the choruses.



Magic Marmalade 13th May 2015		DSS Labels added. Another Decca album with the "Small" labels, that do not fill the label space provided for them on the vinyl.... a good 5mm all the way round the label is projecting. In the Record Collector RRPG Listing, they state that original pressings of this Stereo issue also came with the white band along the top, as with the Mono, but my copy (acquired yesterday) has the same cover as that shown above - without the band. So are my labels original issue labels in a later sleeve, or did the Stereo issue not have the white band at the top from the off? (Or has someone put the original record in a later sleeve in my case?). Also has a Decca Poly-lined inner sleeve with blue printed care instructions.



Terence Archer 16th Jun 2014		These label images are of a later pressing.



janiejjones 20th Dec 2013		Printed by Clout & Baker