On a couple of those tracks, the timing isn’t too clever because there’s no drummer there in the first place to lay down the solid foundation.ĭE: From their first album…is there any significance to the number “10538 Overture?”īB: This is the best track on the album and the first thing we ever recorded as ELO, a track I really like a lot. Actually, on some of those tracks, the drum was put on last. I used to pop down to London occasionally from Birmingham. Roy and Jeff spent the most time in the studio. The first album is one that I don’t look back on with very fond memories because the whole time was spent in the studio. In the studio we had two other guys who helped us out, Steve Woolam on violin and Bill Hunt on French horn, who came in on a couple of tracks. Related: Jeff Lynne’s ELO lights up the Garden (Review)ĭE: In its very earliest foundations, the Electric Light Orchestra had Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevan and who else?īB: That was really it. So I told Jeff and he said, “Right, let’s re-do it and let everyone know once and for all we were the originators of it.” The crunch finally came when I was doing a radio interview and the guy said, “I saw the concert last night and I noticed that you do ‘Do Ya.’ Are you a Todd Rundgren fan?” So I thought that about does it. A lot of people asked us to record it and we kept thinking about it. (Photo courtesy of Dennis Elsas personal archives)ĭE: Why did re-record “Do Ya?” That is the only Move song to ever transform into being an Electric Light Orchestra song?īB: It’s such a great stage number that we used to include it for years on the ELO show. Watch The Move perform “California Man.” Not to be missed…ĭennis Elsas and Bev Bevan at New York’s WNEW-FM in 1977. And even the last single we made as a group, “California Man,” was a Top 5 single. When we first told our record company in England, that we wanted to drop the Move entirely and form a new band called Electric Light Orchestra…naturally they thought we were pretty crazy because the Move were still a very successful group. We were really just in it for the money it became that in the end. When Jeff did join us and we started to talk about it more thoroughly, the interest was just waning in the Move. We didn’t have a name at the time, but a group that was to sound like Electric Light Orchestra, a group that involved classical instruments and a totally unique sound to put on stage. They had been talking for years about forming a group. Jeff Roy Wood were very close friends, for years and years. He got the Idle Race and he was doing OK with them because he had total control of that group… they made two albums together. The Move in an undated publicity photo, (L-R) Roy Wood, Bev Bevan, Jeff Lynne and Rick Priceīev Bevan: Well, when Carl Wayne left the band, we asked Jeff Lynne to join and he refused. Gordon Lightfoot’s Tale of a Ship’s Crew and Its Captain.Top Albums May 1981: We Were in Paradise.Gordon Lightfoot on Touring and Writing His Hits: A Recent Interview with the Canadian Legend.Johnny Cash’s ‘Unchained’ With Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: A Dream Come True.Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons: Real-Life Jersey Boys Still at It.Rock Hall 2023 Inductees Include Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow and The Spinners.Jethro Tull’s ‘Aqualung’: The Ultimate Concept Album.13 Classic Triple Albums: When Rockers Expanded the Limits.Bernie Taupin Memoir, ‘Scattershot,’ Coming.When Steve Miller, Peter Cetera Criticized the Rock Hall.Moody Blues’ “Children’s Children…” Goes Deluxe.Live Nation Offering $25 Concert Tickets.Olivia Newton-John Gets Duets Collection, ‘Just the Two of Us’.The Moody Blues and Four Tops’ ‘Simple Game’.Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: 100 Crucial Omissions.Peter Gabriel Shares Stunning 5th Track From New Studio Album, ‘i/o’.Eric Clapton: ‘Stephen Stills, Carlos Santana Were 1st Ones in For 2023 Crossroads Guitar Festival’.Paul Simon’s ‘There Goes Rhymin’ Simon’: American Tunes.‘What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?’: Soundtrack Review.
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