![]() It entered the USA Billboard Hot 100 chart on December 21, 1974, reached #9 on March 15, 1975, and spent 16 weeks in the chart and entered the Cash Box chart on Decemon, reached #14 on March 22, 1975, spending 17 weeks in the chart. Oddly enough, although this song was a top ten hit in the USA, it was never reissued on 7" single in the USA, unlike other non-top ten hits from the USA charts.įor its original release, Can't Get It Out Of My Head did not chart in the UK at all. It was also released as the second track of side 1 (after Eldorado Overture) on the Eldorado album on September 1974 in the USA and November 1974 in England. In the USA, it's ELO's fifth single release and was released in November 1974, on United Artists records with stock number "XW 573-W" and the same Illusions In G Major on the B-side. The song was released as a single in England on Warner Brothers records in January 1975 with stock number "K16510" and having an Illusions In G Major on the B-side. Perhaps this comment even spurred Jeff to use a full orchestra on the album, rather than dubbed together cellos as was done before. As Jeff wrote it in the front room of his parent's home in Shard End, Birmingham, one could possibly surmise that Jeff heard his father's comment and almost immediately went to the recording equipment in the front room to record the demo and show up his father. His father, an avid classical music lover, did not like his Electric Light Orchestra songs, saying, "they've got no tune." To prove to his father that he could write a beautiful classical influenced song, Jeff wrote the rock ballad of Can't Get It Out Of My Head. The song was written in response to Jeff Lynne's father, Phil, being critical of Jeff's songwriting. According to keyboardist Richard Tandy, the Minimoog keyboard used on the song was multitracked to give it a fuller, harmonic sound. ![]() string players actually performed on the song as during this period of recording, some of the string players parts were simply mixed into the orchestra parts, causing the string players parts to often be indistinguishable amongst the orchestra. In fact, a bootleg recording of an early take of the song demonstrates that the songs were recorded together as one piece. It's probably the case that to Jeff's mind, Eldorado Overture and Can't Get It Out Of My Head are one song, as they fit together very well on the Eldorado album and were performed together for every E.L.O. Additional material and orchestra sessions may have beem in July or August later that year.Īccording to Jeff Lynne, it was the first Electric Light Orchestra song to use a full orchestra, although this does seem to contradict other statements from Jeff that Eldorado Overture was the first song with an orchestra. ![]() Blue Sky The Very Best Of Electric Light Orchestra LP album (2012 October 5 - Europe - Frontiers Records FR LP 570)Ĭan't Get It Out Of My Head was originally recorded at De Lane Lea Studios in London, UK between February 11 and February 15, 1974, although this was only the basic backing track.
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