Dawn Is A Feeling by The Moody Blues

Album: Days of Future Passed (1967)

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Written by Moody Blues keyboard player Mike Pinder, this song features Justin Hayward on lead vocals with Pinder singing the bridge. The song is Track 2 of the Days of Future Passed concept album, with each song representing a time of day - in this case dawn. The song is preceded by "Morning Glory" and followed by "Another Morning."
After the orchestral intro, "Dawn is a Feeling" begins more abruptly, and there is less echo on Mike Pinder's vocal on the bridge, making it stick out. This is due to deterioration of the master tapes and a remake done is 1978. The album was remixed into quadraphonic in 1972. >>>
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Jeff - Indianapolis, IN
Some have cited Days Of Future Past as the first "concept album." However, Hayward told Q magazine in 1990 there was predecessor. "There was one record that influenced us very much which was called The Zodiac by a group called Cosmic Sounds," he said, "A fabulous record."

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Charlie from Baltimore Hayward on lead, Pindar on the bridge.
Michael from Kissimmee, FlI believe that is Justin Hayward, not Mike Pinder, on the lead vocal. Mike did, however, write this song.
Reg from Kemptville, On, -That whole album makes for one marvelous piece of music.

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