By Jim Fusco:

Welcome to another edition of the Laptop Sessions!!

Anyway, this song, “Never Comes the Day”, is a Moody Blues tune from “On the Threshold of a Dream” that I absolutely love. Plus, it works great with two people. Justin Hayward (who wrote this song) has a great way of writing a nice, slow song…then busting out to a faster section of the song. Despite the fact that “Threshold” is one of my favorite Moodies albums, this tune always stood out to me because of the way Hayward sings the line, “If only you knew what’s inside of me now…”

I hope you enjoy my first duet here on the Laptop Sessions! Stay tuned for more and keep those requests coming!

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1. “Question” (Moody Blues Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
2. “The Other Side of Life” (Moody Blues Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
3. “For My Lady” (Moody Blues Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions

By Chris Moore:

Welcome back to another all-new edition of the Laptop Sessions! This summer, Jim and I went through and listened to all the Moody Blues albums — the classic seven (from Days of Future Passed to Seventh Sojourn) and everything that followed (including Long Distance Voyager and the recent, awesome Strange Times). I had heard a lot of Moody Blues songs previously and had seen them live a couple times, but I never really appreciated them until this little summer exploration.

Anyway, this is a song from their album To Our Children’s Children’s Children — it was on the “Gold” collection, too, so it’s not THAT obscure. Not that I’ve been known for choosing obscure songs or anything…

Without further ado, here it is. Keep checking laptopsessions.com daily for a new session EVERY DAY from either Jim, Jeff, or myself. See you next time!

Related posts:

1. “The Other Side of Life” (Moody Blues Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
2. “Question” (Moody Blues Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
3. “For My Lady” (Moody Blues Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions

By Jim Fusco:

Okay, request time here at the Laptop Sessions. This one’s going out to my longtime friend Drew Kingsley.

“Question” is a great tune by the Moody Blues off of their (you guessed it) “Question Of Balance” album.

I hope you’ll all like my acoustic-ized version of the song. Of course the strumming isn’t as insane as Justin Hayward’s is- I can actually play it at that speed, but have a bit of trouble keeping time when I do. So, I chose the safe route for this version. I think the effect is still there because of the dynamics used.

There will be many more Moodies songs to come, as well as many request fulfillments in the coming weeks- I’m loving this every third day schedule, as it really allows me to pick some tougher songs and practice them until their perfect for internet posting!

As a final note before I close this out, I just want to announce that in late January, we’ll be releasing “The Laptop Sessions: Volume 1″ as a FREE mp3 album download on our website at http://fusco-moore.com/store. It will consist of the first 15 Laptop Sessions from Chris, Jeff, and me and we’ll be coming out with new albums every few weeks. Exciting stuff- now you can put the Sessions on your mp3 player and listen to them whenever you desire!

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1. “For My Lady” (Moody Blues Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
2. “The Other Side of Life” (Moody Blues Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
3. “Garden Party” (Ricky Nelson Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions

To see how it’s played in the cover song music video, CLICK HERE!

“Minstrel’s Song”
The Moody Blues

C             F         C          F            C
Words, a simple song, a minstrel sings
C            F             C
A way of life in his eyes.
C            F            C        F          C
Hear the morning call of waking birds
C                      F
When they are singing, bringing
F   C    G
Love — Love.

C       D         F                C
Everywhere, love is all around.
Everywhere, love is all around.

Now the winter’s gone,
Cold wind has blown
The endless stream in our lives
Where the minstrel sings
This simple song.
He’s always bringing, singing
Love — Love.

Everywhere, love is all around.
Everywhere, love is all around.

BRIDGE:   D – F        F – C – G – C    G

C                                 F           C
Listen to the one who sings of love.
F               C               F                C
Follow our friend, our wandering friend.
C                                 F           C
Listen to the one who sings of love.
G                               C
Everywhere, love is around,
G            C
Around, around…

Hear the nations sing
Our minstrel’s song,
As he walks by in their lives.
Soon the spring will come,
And everyone will all be singing, bringing
Love — Love.

Everywhere, love is all around.
Everywhere, love is all around.

BRIDGE

CHORUS (x2)

** These chords and lyrics are interpretations and transcriptions, respectively, and are the sole property of the copyright holder(s). They are posted on this website free of charge for no profit for the purpose of study and commentary, as allowed for under the “fair use” provision of U.S. copyright law, and should only be used for such personal and/or academic work. **

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By Jim Fusco:

Back again with another edition of the Laptop Sessions!

This time I finally get to do a Moody Blues song. I just got the urge to do this one yesterday, so it gets first billing. It’s not my favorite of theirs, but it does remind me of listening to it while riding in the car when I was little.

I think it’s got a great beat and a cool chorus (especially how they do the drums in concert), but my father thinks it sounds a bit too much like “Dragging the Line” by Tommy James. I have to agree.

Anyway, this is the first of MANY Moodies songs to come, so stay tuned!

Related posts:

1. “Question” (Moody Blues Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
2. “For My Lady” (Moody Blues Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
3. “Crazy Life” (Toad the Wet Sprocket Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions

By Chris Moore:

Hello and welcome to yet another edition in the session-a-day project at the best acoustic cover song music blog on the web! Yes, that’s right, we don’t post a cover once a week or a music video every once in a while like most other sites — no, we have committed ourselves to posting one cover song a day in 2008. (And, if it goes much longer then that, we’ll probably end up committing ourselves. Not to another “session-a-day” project, just “committing.” And not to a relationship. I mean like to an institution for the mentally unstable!)

That’s how hard we work around these parts…

But, let’s get down to acoustic cover song business. Today, I bring you my second track from one of my favorite bands, the Moody Blues. “For My Lady” holds a special place in my heart for a couple reasons. First, it is on their Seventh Sojourn album, which is one of their first seven concept albums — one of my favorite collections of all time. But second, and more personal, is the fact that this is the very first song that Jim, Mike, Becky, and I learned and performed live together as a band. It was the first of many and happened long before Cliff came into the picture. By the time Masters of the Universe came together we had long forgotten how to play this song (and, by we, I mean me and probably Becky too, and maybe even Mike, but not Jim!) and it was only played once at Jim’s parents’ anniversary party.

And now it is officially added to the list of acoustic cover songs available here at the Laptop Sessions. I hope you enjoy it, and I hope you hurry back tomorrow for another great cover song music video by Jeff…

See you next session…

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1. “Question” (Moody Blues Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
2. “The Other Side of Life” (Moody Blues Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
3. “Lay Lady Lay” (Bob Dylan Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions