Dangit, I meant ELO in the title.
I’ve heard of Bioluminescent Organisms. I am not familiar with Electroluminescent Organisms.
My favorite of ELO. Wish I could listen to it every morning.
I love almost everything ELO, but I think those are two of my favorites.
One of my favorites from ELO.
Some ELO songs, especially Mr. Blue Sky, have a Beatlesque sound.
It sucks that ELO never had a number one hit in the USA. From what I understand they only hit number one a single time anywhere and that had something to do with a movie in later years. ELO had some great tunes. I always liked this period video of Showdown which did hit #2 on the charts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZywJO573fg
My personal favorite.
Electric Light Orchestra - Midnight Blue (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f38qG3Aeb-A
Perhaps a moderator can correct your title.
A wonderful song for this point in the epidemic. The skies are going to be so blue soon enough,
Yes. My favorite of theirs.
Saw Jeff Lynn’s ELO at The Rock in Newark NJ last year and it was awesome. What a show!
Saw them in Austin about the same time.
Was a great show. Never forget.
Anyone remember the embryonic stage of ELO? Multi-instrumental, vocalist, songwriter and Birmingham chap Jeff Lynne had been recruited to a band called The Move with multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter and Birmingham chap Roy Wood, who had been fiddling with an idea for a rock band with traditional classical orchestration, so "kids who played instruments in school had a band they could aspire to rock with."
At one point in 1971, the two bands were basically a single unit with the same members. Having a plethora of material from two gifted songwriters, they recorded two albums (plus singles) in a single set of sessions simultaneously, deciding after the fact which songs would go toward The Move's last (as it turned out) album "Message From The Country", and which would comprise the first album for the Electric Light Orchestra, replete with their 10538 Overture.
As you can expect there was quite a bit of cross-pollination. Lynne's song "Do Ya" from the sessions was released as a Move song - the B-side of Wood's "California Man" single. Of course it was famously redone in 1976 when ELO was singularly Lynne's project.
As Lynne's songwriting flourished, and he became more pre-eminent in what had been Wood's ELO project, Wood left to form the band Wizzard which was initially more popular than ELO, especially in the UK. But ELO gained a foothold in America, charting singles with their re-imagining of Chuck Berry's Roll Over Beethoven in 1973 and followed with Can't Get It Out Of My Head in 1974. They were to prove vastly more popular in the US going forward, and eventually in England.
An example of a Move song that probably could have been - and should have been - an ELO song: Words Of Aaron by Lynne. If you're an ELO fan and are familiar with some of the other links provided above, but never heard of the Move material, you're in for a treat :D
I like the Electric Light Orchestra. I never saw them perform.
But I was on an airplane with them, in July 1978, departing Lexington, Kentucky, where they had performed at Rupp Arena.
I was seated next to one of the guys in the group, who had a big boom box radio/tape player. I never talked to him; he had his headphones on the entire flight listening to music.
Thank you, great tune, wonderful period of life.
Jeff Lynne- another soldier of the English Invasion that never stopped.