Hello, how are you? Have you been alright?
Through all those lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely nights
That's what I'd say, I'd tell you everything
If you'd pick up that telephone, yeah yeah yeah.
Hey, how you feelin'? Are you still the same?
Don't you realize the things we did, we did
Were all for real, not a dream? And I just can't believe
They've all faded out of view, yeah yeah yeah...
Re "Telephone Line":
The song is track two on their 1976 album, A New World Record... It became their biggest single success in the US and was their first UK gold award for a
single. With ELO's continuing success in America it seemed obvious to
Lynne to use an American ring tone during the songWriter/guitarist, Lynne explained:
To get the
sound on the beginning, you know, the American telephone sound, we
phoned from England to America to a number that we know nobody would be
at, to just listen to it for a while. On the Moog we recreated the sound
exactly by tuning the oscillators to the same notes as the ringing of
the phone.
And re the group:
Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) are a British rock group from Birmingham, England, who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001. ELO were formed to accommodate Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne's desire to create modern rock and pop songs with classical overtones...
The band also holds the record for having the most Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hits of any group in US chart history without ever having a number one single...
The group's name is an intended pun based not only on electric light (as in a light bulb as seen on early album covers) but also using "electric" rock instruments combined with a "light orchestra" (orchestras with only a few cellos and violins that were popular in Britain during the 1960s).
The official band logo... is based on a 1946 Wurlitzer jukebox model 4008 speaker... For instance, on 1977's Out of the Blue, the logo was turned into a huge flying saucer space station, an enduring image now synonymous with the band.
Crank it up!!
Great track. ELO was always one of my favorite bands. The first ELO album was just Roy Wood playing all of the instruments, some of them one note at a time because he didn't know how to play some of them.
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ReplyDeleteFrom the link: "In 1980 Jeff Lynne was asked to write for the soundtrack of the musical film Xanadu, with the other half written by John Farrar and performed by the film's star Olivia Newton-John. The movie performed poorly at the box office, but the soundtrack did exceptionally well, eventually going double platinum. "
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