In my poll asking people which Midnight Special albums they wanted to see me make, ELO got the most votes. Also, I've seen it claimed that ELO performed more times on the show than any other musical act. I'm not entirely sure of that. The Bee Gees, at least, would be right up there as well. But certainly they were one of the most. They were the host of an episode in 1975, and most of this album comes from that. But it also gathers up songs they did for the show in 1973 and 1974.
The first song, "Kuiama," comes from a June 29, 1973 episode. The second song, "Ma-Ma-Ma Belle," comes from a November 23, 1973 episode. "Showdown" and "Bluebird Is Dead" come from a February 8, 1974 episode. There are some additional songs that were played that I'm not including, because they're repeats. Namely, between 1973 and 1975, "Showdown" was played twice, and "Roll Over Beethoven" was played three times.
The rest of the songs, tracks 5 to 13, come from the 1975 episode mentioned in the title. The only problem was the last song, "Roll Over Beethoven." After about a minute, the emcee Wolfman Jack started talking over the music, then the episode came to an end. Luckily, that was a song that had been performed by ELO on the show twice before. So I used the 1973 version to finish it off (which is why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title). But the one minute I saved from the 1975 version is interesting, because that was a longer instrumental intro than usual for the song. The first part of that intro references Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Maybe someone can tell us what the second part references.
I was curious what was going to happen to the banter between songs for the episode ELO was hosting, since the band's lead singer, Jeff Lynne, was obviously a very shy person and rarely spoke on stage. It turns out there was very little banter, and what there was, mainly a naming of the band members, was spoken by Bev Bevan, the band's drummer.
ELO was on the show three more times after this, in 1976 and 1977, including hosting it once more. So I would like to make another album out of that material, once it all gets released on YouTube.
The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.
This album is 49 minutes long.
01 Kuiama (Electric Light Orchestra)
02 Ma-Ma-Ma Belle (Electric Light Orchestra)
03 Showdown (Electric Light Orchestra)
04 Bluebird Is Dead (Electric Light Orchestra)
05 In the Hall of the Mountain King [Instrumental] (Electric Light Orchestra)
06 Great Balls of Fire (Electric Light Orchestra)
07 talk (Electric Light Orchestra)
08 Orange Blossom Special [Instrumental] (Electric Light Orchestra)
09 Eldorado Overture - Can't Get It Out of My Head (Electric Light Orchestra)
10 Laredo Tornado (Electric Light Orchestra)
11 Flight of the Bumblebee [Instrumental] (Electric Light Orchestra)
12 talk (Electric Light Orchestra)
13 Roll Over Beethoven [Edit] (Electric Light Orchestra)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/w92oR4sv
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/7ROvDkjaZ03WyGS/file
The cover image of lead singer Jeff Lynne is a screenshot I took from the 1975 episode. I used Krea AI to help add detail.
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