Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado (1974) [1989 Epic, CDEPC 32397]

Posted By: jclane

Date: May 15, 2011

Eldorado - A Symphony By The Electric Light Orchestra, officially known as simply Eldorado, is the fourth studio album and a concept album by the Electric Light Orchestra released in 1974.

This is the album where Jeff Lynne finally found the sound he'd wanted since co-founding Electric Light Orchestra three years earlier. Up to this point, most of the group's music had been self-contained – Lynne, Richard Tandy, et al., providing whatever was needed, vocally or instrumentally, even if it meant overdubbing their work layer upon layer. Lynne saw the limitations of this process, however, and opted for the presence of an orchestra – it was only 30 pieces, but the result was a much richer musical palette than the group had ever had to work with, and their most ambitious and successful record up to that time. Indeed, Eldorado was strongly reminiscent in some ways of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Not that it could ever have the same impact or be as distinctive, but it had its feet planted in so many richly melodic and varied musical traditions, yet made it all work in a rock context, that it did recall the Beatles classic. It was a very romantic work, especially on the opening "Eldorado Overture," which was steeped in a wistful 1920s/1930s notion of popular fantasy (embodied in movies and novels like James Hilton's Lost Horizon and Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge) about disillusioned seekers. It boasted Lynne's best single up to that time, "Can't Get It Out of My Head," which most radio listeners could never get out of their respective heads, either. The integration of the orchestra would become even more thorough on future albums, but Eldorado was notable for mixing the band and orchestra (and a choir) in ways that did no violence to the best elements of both.

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Track listing
All songs written by Jeff Lynne.

1. "Eldorado Overture" - 2:12
2. "Can't Get It Out of My Head" - 4:21
3. "Boy Blue" - 5:18
4. "Laredo Tornado" - 5:29
5. "Poor Boy (The Greenwood)" - 2:57
6. "Mister Kingdom" - 5:50
7. "Nobody's Child" - 3:40
8. "Illusions in G Major" - 2:36
9. "Eldorado" - 5:20
10. "Eldorado Finale" - 1:20

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Personnel

Jeff Lynne – vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, bass, keyboards, orchestra and choral arrangements
Bev Bevan – drums, percussion
Richard Tandy – piano, moog synthesiser, guitar, backing vocals, orchestra and choral arrangements
Mike de Albuquerque – bass (credited, but did not play on most of the record)
Mik Kaminski – violin
Hugh McDowell – cello
Mike Edwards – cello
Louis Clark - orchestra and choral arrangements and conducting
Peter Forbes-Robertson – spoken word

Original Release Date: September 1974 (US), November 1974 (UK)
Recorded: February - August 1974 De Lane Lea Studios, London, United Kingdom
CD Released Date: 1989
Length: 39:10
Producer: Jeff Lynne
Made in Austria

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