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<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nThis video was posted to You Tube by obscuremusicvids<\/a><\/p>\n In the mid to late 70’s, Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) was the biggest band in the UK. Formed in 1971, the idea was to introduce some classical overtones into modern popular music. Bands mostly were guitars, keyboards and drums. To this, ELO added instruments mostly associated with Classical music, mainly Cello’s, Violins, and some woodwind instruments. When the band toured, the makeup was mainly Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Drums, and to this ELO added 2 Cellos and a Violin. The touring outfit was 7 members, a huge light show, and a monstrous stage that included their trademark ’spaceship’, and the band was one of the first to use coloured lasers as part of the light show.<\/p>\n <\/span>The original intent was to blend the harmonies of the instruments together, and also to blend the harmonies of the voices as well. It gave a full almost orchestral sound, different from most bands at the time.<\/p>\n Even though the band was formed in the UK, it was more popular in the US for the first few years where they toured extensively.<\/p>\n With the release of their 6th album, ‘A New World Record’, in 1976, all that changed and they became hugely popular all across the World. Three singles were lifted from that album and all of them made it into the Top Ten.<\/p>\n The next four albums consolidated that popularity as each album sold off the charts.<\/p>\n In all, from 1972 until 1986, they had 11 studio albums, and from those there were 15 Top Ten Hits, and even though only one ELO song (‘Xanadu’, from the 1980 album of the same name) made it to Number One, sales of those albums numbered in the millions.<\/p>\n This song today, ‘Sweet Is The Night’ is taken from the Album ‘Out Of The Blue’ their double album from 1978. Five singles were lifted from this album, and four of them made it into the Top Ten. This wasn’t one of those, and is my favourite song from the album.<\/p>\n The driving force of the band was Jeff Lynne. This double album (the original vinyl) has 17 songs. Jeff Lynne wrote them all in a three week period while he was in the Swiss Alps. It took a further 2 months to record the album in Munich. Such was the anticipation there were more than 4 million orders for the album, even before it was released.<\/p>\n Lynne considers this album to be the band’s crowning achievement and it was named Album Of The Year in the UK in 1978. The album was remastered in 2007 as a 30th Anniversary special limited edition CD with a hard bound book and included three extra tracks. When released, this re release also made it into the Top Twenty albums chart.<\/p>\n One song from the album that did well as a Single release from the original is this song ‘Wild West Hero’. This is the original promotional video clip for the song.<\/p>\n This video was posted to You Tube by Jostoc<\/a><\/p>\n Filed under: Music<\/a>, Video<\/a> Tagged: Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)<\/a>, Jeff Lynne<\/a>, Music<\/a>, Music Video<\/a>, Video<\/a> Today\u2019s music video is \u2018Sweet Is The Night\u2019 from the band Electric Light Orchestra. This video was posted to You Tube by obscuremusicvids In the mid to late 70’s, Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) was the biggest band in the UK. Formed in 1971, the idea was to introduce some classical overtones into modern popular music. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/rcSjCDxoBPY\/2.jpg\")
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