The song was edited from the album version of 4:43 down to 2:42. The single edit omits the second verse and simply goes into the longer chorus after the first verse. A similar edit was done on the Justin Hayward/John Lodge (Blue Jays) song "I Dreamed Last Night", but that version ends cold. Despite the fact that the album was a number-one hit in the UK, "Never Comes the Day" was a commercial flop as a single, and did not chart in the UK. The single also included Mike Pinder's "So Deep Within You," another track from the same album, on the B-side.
Reception
Cash Box described it as "starting in a gentle folk vein" with less impact than expected, but then grows to become an "hypnotic outing."[1]Record World said that "This soft and sweet art -rock picks up halfway through and could be the biggest yet for the group."[2]
In Canada, the song peaked at #74 in May and was then off the charts through June, but came back to rank #85 in July.[3]