Higher and Higher (The Moody Blues song)
- Higher and Higher (The Moody Blues song)
Infobox Song
Name = Higher and Higher
Artist = The Moody Blues
Album = To Our Children's Children's Children
Released = 15 November 1969
Recorded = May-September 1969
Length = 4:06
Label = Threshold Records
Writer = Graeme Edge
Producer = Tony Clarke
Last single =
This single =
Next single =
Misc =Extra tracklisting
Album = To Our Children's Children's Children
Type = studio
Tracks = ;Side one
#"Higher and Higher"
#"Eyes of a Child I"
#"Floating"
#"Eyes of a Child II"
#"I Never Thought I'd Live to be a Hundred"
#"Beyond"
#"Out and In";Side two
#- "Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time)"
#"Eternity Road"
#"Candle of Life"
#"Sun is Still Shining"
#"I Never Thought I'd Live to be a Million"
#"Watching and Waiting"
"Higher and Higher" is the opening track of The Moody Blues 1969 album "To Our Children's Children's Children", a concept album about space travel.
"Higher and Higher", which begins the album, is basically describes space travel as one on man's greatest feats. The verses of the song are actually spoken rather than sung, and the beginning of the lyrics sound as if they were coming through a radio transmission, as if on a space shuttle. Sound effects of a shuttle launching begin the song, and they last for the first minute.
"Higher and Higher" was also the Moody Blues' first full length song that was written by the band's drummer Graeme Edge. On their previous albums, Edge was the principal writer of their short spoken-word poems that appear at the beginning and end of these albums. In the recordings, they were recited by either Edge himself or by Mike Pinder. "Higher and Higher" is also the first full song which Edge provides the lead vocals throughout.
Graeme Edge has stated that his inspiration for the song came upon seeing the "Apollo 11" crew members Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first walk on the moon on July 20, 1969.
Personnel
* Justin Hayward: acoustic and electric guitars, backing vocals
* John Lodge: bass guitar, backing vocals
* Mike Pinder: mellotron, backing vocals
* Ray Thomas: tambourine, backing vocals
* Graeme Edge: vocals, drums, percussion
External Links
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js_CuCmUCPo "Higher and Higher" being performed live in 2005 (YouTube Video)]
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