The Rez Radio Song of the Week is a live performance from 1973 on the Midnight Special of the Electric Light Orchestras version of Roll Over Beethoven. If you ask, Mark Gleason might play it on his Groovy Trip show tomorrow afternoon between 1 and 4. The elaborate remake of Chuck Berrys Roll Over Beethoven was a natural for the rock band formed in Birmingham, England in 1970. The concept, formed by Roy Wood, drummer Bev Bevan and Jeff Lynne out of a group called The Move was to not just use classical string instruments as the Beatles and others had in the 60s, but make them part of the group and literally pick up where the Beatles left off, having called it quits just a couple of months before The Moves first song as ELO, 10538 Overture in July of 1970. Friction between Lynne and Wood prompted Wood to leave the group. Many predicted failure for ELO without Wood, who then founded Wizzard. But Lynne stepped up and along with Bevan, keyboardist Richard Tandy and violinist Mik Kaminski recorded and were a top touring headliner all through the 1970s with an ever-changing lineup of additional band members, usually numbering about 8. Their first U.S. hit was Roll Over Beethoven from their second album in 1973. Many bands were said to be the next Beatles, but only Badfinger, which was guided by Paul McCartney and George Harrison and recorded on the Beatles Apple label, and ELO, which was entirely independent of the Beatles ever got the Fab Fours acknowledgement as being the logical progression of their work. Lynne produced George Harrisons Cloud Nine album and Harrison even joined Lynnes next project after ELO in the late 80s, The Traveling Wilburys. Lynne produced albums for a number of artists including Tom Petty and Roy Orbison, both of whom were also members of the Traveling Wilburys . https://youtube/watch?v=PLNR4xfh1Qc
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 04:40:36 +0000
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