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The Moody Blues

The Night: Nights in White Satin

1967 · via Fugees

The Moody Blues’ 1967 recording of “The Night: Nights in White Satin” is the earliest release on file. Justin Hayward is credited as its writer. Also recorded by Sandra (released 1992), Elkie Brooks (released 1982) and Giorgio (released 1976), among 336 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. Fugees’ “The Mask” (1996) samples it, per MusicBrainz.

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The Moody Blues put out the first recording of it in 1967, and Fugees put out The Mask in 1996 with that record sampled underneath. Spin the older one first and you'll catch the Fugees track hiding inside it.

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Liner notes

Credited writer: Justin Hayward.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1967.

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Fugees’ “The Mask” (1996) samples it, per MusicBrainz.

Other recordings on file · first release year

336 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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