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This was absolutely gorgeous. The band. The orchestra. The atmosphere. Just beautiful!

I am excited that I got a chance to experience this performance because I had no idea that there was a flute in the original performance!

The simplicity of this song allows the words to shine through, but honestly the music sort of outlines this thought that love can and should be just that...simple.

here’s the link of Dan Avidan and the Super Guitar Bros cover:

https://youtu.be/BMra7W86z3o?is=yZN3EQjq7uqaP3yr

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Bill Whitaker

The flutist is Ray Thomas. He was a founding member of the band. He was also a backup vocalist and percussionist. The flute is used in many Moody Blues songs. The album Days of Future Past is a must listen, as well as many of their other classic albums.

Luis Arispe

I love this version of the song. Awesome.

Jim Lynch

Excuse me ma'am, but if you thought I was going to spoil the surprise that there is a flute player in this band and that he would play a solo in this song, you have seriously underestimated my diabolicalness. Lol. In my opinion, there's probably two other Moody Blues songs that there's a more than decent chance that you would've heard casually out in the world. The first is a song called Tuesday Afternoon from 1967. I feel like it's a pretty popular song of theirs. The other song is actually a cover called Go Now from 1964.

NittPicc Reacts

It was a surprise worth not being informed of! I need to check out the other songs!

Jim Lynch

I'm tickled to death that you liked this song! It's very much part of the soundtrack of my childhood. We'll see what suprises I can cook up in the future.....

Jim Lynch

His voice is very well suited for that song. Fantastic cover!

Bill W

NittPicc, listen to this album front to back so you can hear this in context. If ever there was a prog-rock concept album, it's this one. (At this point it wasn't called "Progressive Rock" yet. It was called "Art Rock".)

Matt Kooser

I used to hear a lot of Moody Blues songs on the radio when I was growing up, even though the band is older than I am. I'm not sure what young people today would hear of their music, but my favorite beside this one is Legend of a Mind -- not trying to promote LSD use or anything, lol. The instrumental section in the middle is great. If you do a reaction to it, you'll want to know who Timothy Leary was.

Glenner7

I might be biased since I grew up as a teenager with them, but I mostly love the Moody Blues songs from the hippy years (from In Search of the Lost Chord (1967) to Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1971). Some of their songs you might possibly have heard are: Tuesday Afternoon, Voices in the Sky, So Deep Within You, Ride My See Saw, The Story in Your Eyes, Question, and I'm Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band. In the 60s, they very much pioneered the use of the mellotron in rock music along with The Beatles. My favourite Moody Blues album is On the Threshold of a Dream from 1969. Justin Hayward's voice has a very haunting quality. Ray Thomas was indeed self-taught on the flute.