From the back cover:  The history of the song ranges over twelve years and contains versions by such diverse artistes as Deodato and the Dickies.  Justin Hayward wrote it early in 1967 but for a long while it remained unrecorded and was merely performed on stage. In fact, the first recording was for a BBC session and was engineered by Aidan Day who went on to become one of the cornerstones of Capital, London's commercial music station.

The very first hit record was not in fact by the Moody Blues.  It was a French cover by a young lady called Patricia, but her version brought a lot of attention to the Moodies rendition when they played it at the Midem Music Festival in the South of France.  Due to a series of overruns and accidents, the television coverage of the main Midem concert could not include the stars of the show and the relatively unknown Moody Blues found themselves transmitted all over Europe.  NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN broke wide open, went No. 1 all over the place and has not only sold millions of records since then but continues to sell consistently every day.  Versions by Ramsay Lewis have turned it into Jazz/Funk; the late Ted Heath provided a marvelous middle of the road treatment; the Dickies have taken it Punk Rock; Eric Burdon and War have screamed it out (Justin's personal favourite cover); hundreds of couples have been married to it in church and one religious sect in America even claimed it was a divine message sent "just to them" and that Justin was merely the messenger.

Whilst being complimented by the adaptations, we feel that the original version is the classic - and you're holding that in your hand, on the original label, with the original catalogue number.