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Post by bluey on Jul 29, 2017 20:36:10 GMT
Here are the ELO boys fooling around on the very first take of their classical version of Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven".
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Post by ShardEnder on Jul 29, 2017 23:28:03 GMT
...and here's some mostly pointless trivia about the first take of Roll Over Beethoven: according to the original tape box, Jeff's working title for this cover was "The Biggest D**** In The World," while the opening section was actually recorded separately, being labelled as "Intro To Biggest D****" (you've got to love a good sex toy joke or two)!
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Post by bluey on Jul 30, 2017 12:21:33 GMT
...and here's some mostly pointless trivia about the first take of Roll Over Beethoven: according to the original tape box, Jeff's working title for this cover was "The Biggest D**** In The World," while the opening section was actually recorded separately, being labelled as "Intro To Biggest D****" (you've got to love a good sex toy joke or two)! I believe an early working version of "Showdown" was named "Bev's Trousers" and the working title for the instrumental 7" version of "In Old England Town" was called "King Henry VIII's B*ll*cks". "King Henry VIII's B*ll*ck's" is track 8 on this Harvest sampler cd. Attachment Deleted
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Post by ShardEnder on Jul 30, 2017 17:30:48 GMT
Sorry - I made a pretty big mistake before! Upon reviewing my research notes, it appears that "Biggest D****" was an early title for ELO's other cover from around the same period: In The Hall Of The Mountain King (which was also briefly known as In The Hole Of The Mounted Parrot and intended as the follow-up single to Roll Over Beethoven until Jeff changed his mind, wanting to focus on an original instead). From the same period, Dreaming Of 4000 was originally called Jam Rag Mambo, Terd Burhgerler + Jam was released as Everyone's Born To Die with later versions dropping the improvised end section, and the first side of On The Third Day was once collectively known on its tape box as Festering C**t Pts. 1 - 6 due to Ocean Breakup along with the reprise being counted as separate pieces. Strangely, Daybreaker's initial name was Theme From A Glass Table... No, I don't get this one, either.
P.S. That full working title of Showdown was Bev's Trouser's No. 7, and the alternate mix of Ma-Ma-Ma Belle had its early name censored somewhat for public consumption, as it was listed on the tape box as Auntie's B*****ks.
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Post by bluey on Jul 30, 2017 19:11:29 GMT
Sorry - I made a pretty big mistake before! Upon reviewing my research notes, it appears that "Biggest D****" was an early title for ELO's other cover from around the same period: In The Hall Of The Mountain King (which was also briefly known as In The Hole Of The Mounted Parrot and intended as the follow-up single to Roll Over Beethoven until Jeff changed his mind, wanting to focus on an original instead). From the same period, Dreaming Of 4000 was originally called Jam Rag Mambo, Terd Burhgerler + Jam was released as Everyone's Born To Die with later versions dropping the improvised end section, and the first side of On The Third Day was once collectively known on its tape box as Festering C**t Pts. 1 - 6 due to Ocean Breakup along with the reprise being counted as separate pieces. Strangely, Daybreaker's initial name was Theme From A Glass Table... No, I don't get this one, either. P.S. That full working title of Showdown was Bev's Trouser's No. 7, and the alternate mix of Ma-Ma-Ma Belle had its early name censored somewhat for public consumption, as it was listed on the tape box as Auntie's B*****ks. Cheers there ShardEnder,
I can only go by the working titles on my cd's.
I have "Showdown" as "All Over The World".
I have "Ma-Ma-Ma Belle simply as "Auntie" and "My Woman".
I have "Dreaming Of 4000" simply as "Mambo".
These titles have obviously been censored by EMI.
"The Electric Light Orchestra II" album was originally going to be called "The Lost Planet".
"Out Of The Blue" was originally going to be entitled "Out Of This World" by Jeff Lynne, Richard Tandy thought that the follow-up album to "A New World Record" shouldn't also have "World" in it's title, Richard suggested "Out Of The Blue" as an alternative title. Jeff agreed with Richard and "Out Of The Blue" was born.
My mate likes "The Duke of Edinburgh's Lettuce" at the end of "Feel Too Good" from The Move's "Looking On" album.
I don't know many of Woody's working titles, apart from "Second Class" being the working title of "She's Too Good For Me" on his "Boulders" album. Woody did confirm to me in 2015 when I met him in Holmfirth, he did originally wanted to call the album "Bo**ocks", EMI wouldn't release it with that title. Reluctantly he released it as "Boulders" instead.
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Post by ShardEnder on Jul 30, 2017 19:40:50 GMT
My understanding is that Rob Caiger was the one who chose to censor quite a few of those working titles when he compiled CDRs of outtakes from each album for Jeff to choose bonus tracks to include with the 2001-7 remasters, and I was able to identify quite a few of the uncut names thanks to images shared by Louis Clark on his social media account. For example, at the time of the string section overdubs, Mr. Blue Sky was still known as Thou Shalt Not No. 7, while the actual titles of many songs that make up the so-called Trojan Tapes Session were clearly never intended for a wider audience - I've mentioned these in another thread already, though I'd prefer not to write them out again, even in heavily sanitised forms.
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Post by eloneen on Jul 30, 2017 20:27:18 GMT
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Post by fireonhigh on Jul 31, 2017 7:04:45 GMT
My understanding is that Rob Caiger was the one who chose to censor quite a few of those working titles when he compiled CDRs of outtakes from each album for Jeff to choose bonus tracks to include with the 2001-7 remasters, and I was able to identify quite a few of the uncut names thanks to images shared by Louis Clark on his social media account. For example, at the time of the string section overdubs, Mr. Blue Sky was still known as Thou Shalt Not No. 7, while the actual titles of many songs that make up the so-called Trojan Tapes Session were clearly never intended for a wider audience - I've mentioned these in another thread already, though I'd prefer not to write them out again, even in heavily sanitised forms. Is it possible to have a link to this other thread?
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Post by ShardEnder on Jul 31, 2017 12:25:43 GMT
My understanding is that Rob Caiger was the one who chose to censor quite a few of those working titles when he compiled CDRs of outtakes from each album for Jeff to choose bonus tracks to include with the 2001-7 remasters, and I was able to identify quite a few of the uncut names thanks to images shared by Louis Clark on his social media account. For example, at the time of the string section overdubs, Mr. Blue Sky was still known as Thou Shalt Not No. 7, while the actual titles of many songs that make up the so-called Trojan Tapes Session were clearly never intended for a wider audience - I've mentioned these in another thread already, though I'd prefer not to write them out again, even in heavily sanitised forms. Is it possible to have a link to this other thread? jefflynneselo.proboards.com/thread/607/recordings-ready
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Post by queenofthehours on Aug 6, 2017 19:39:40 GMT
Here are the ELO boys fooling around on the very first take of their classical version of Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven". I've never been a big fan of 'ROB' but this version is my favourite recorded version. Above that is the live Liverpool 2016 performance and at the top the live Wembley performance from 2017.
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Post by Timeblue on Aug 6, 2017 22:07:06 GMT
Similar to 'Who's That' in silliness!
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