RIP Richard Tandy. Such an important part of ELO’s sound.

@Jet166

Ай бұрын

Augmenting the string/choir sound with some gorgeous mellotron!

A pure reminder just how amazing the 70's ELO were, there was a time around 1977 where they were easily the biggest band in the world. Very rare to see Jeff without sunglasses.

@rharvier

10 ай бұрын

I was just going to comment of Jeff without his shades LOL!

@astros1962

10 ай бұрын

The release of a double studio album, Out of the Blue in 1978 perfectly exemplifies your statement.

@jdobbs7700

3 ай бұрын

I was a college student in the mid-to-late '70s and ELO were truly popular. People really liked their unique sound and blend of rock music and classical elements.

I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen Jeff’s eyes.

@BlackHatCinephile

10 ай бұрын

I heard that some critic or industry person complained about his eyes being beady and it made him self conscious.

@singluna888

10 ай бұрын

Lol. When George Harrisons son inducted him into the R&R Hall of fame. He said his earliest memories were of him and his glasses. Never could see his eyes. This is a first for me too.

@kevindean6600

10 ай бұрын

Dude. I thought the same thing.

@andre.79

10 ай бұрын

😂

@KittyGrizGriz

10 ай бұрын

Reminds me of Roy Orbison’s sunglasses all the time, Jeff’s handsome w/o them too

The man knows how to write, arrange, & perform a tune!

@redbarchetta8782

9 ай бұрын

One of the most prolific writers/producers out there.

@sarahloughlin3724

6 ай бұрын

Jeff Lynne also happens to have the best male singing vocals ever!

@sarahloughlin3724

6 ай бұрын

Kelly Groucutt's vocals are also beautiful!

I remember watching this episode on our new console TV. I was mesmerized by the audio/video quality. My mom kept telling me to turn it down because it was so late and the neighbors were trying to sleep. Now, as I watch and listen through my headphones, I thank the stars I'm able to turn it up loud! Thank you, Midnight Special, for then and now!

That's what I love about ELO! This song opened with that dramatic spoken part, and then the rock symphony began. Spectacular performance by all, with Jeff's clear voice singing the haunting lyrics! Thank you, Midnight Special, for all these treasures! 😌💜

Now I won’t be able to get it out of my head. Thanks

@lucguenette7534

2 ай бұрын

Same for me , so back for more.

I always like it when ELO puts “Eldorado Overture” at the start before “Can’t Get It Out Of My Head”

@billhannis6095

3 ай бұрын

It's like peanut butter without jelly.

Finally! After seeing a few of these Midnight Special vids of ELO, I finally see one where ELO plays live!

Jeff Lynne is a uniquely and wonderfully talented man. He really created something magical with ELO.

That introduction just took me to another dimension. Outstanding musicians.... phenomenal performance. I was so fortunate to have seen him in concert in 2019. At 72 years old, he hadn't lost a thing. Outstanding concert! I'm so thankful to my son who made that dream a reality! ❤ Happy Tuesday... thank you for sharing! 💖

@StephanieJeanne

10 ай бұрын

That was an awesome intro! How great, you got to see Jeff live! Something to remember for a lifetime!😀

@markberryhill2715

10 ай бұрын

That freakin intro was almost creepy(in a 70s kinda way),but I loved it ! That was an incredible 70s flashback of one of my faves of theirs!

@that70sgirl90

10 ай бұрын

@@StephanieJeanne If Jeff Lynne ever tours again, I highly recommend seeing him if you get the opportunity. Wonderful memories... I will never forget that night! 😊

@JeffLynnesELO2024Tour

3 ай бұрын

He will be on tour this Summer and fall of 2024 (32 concerts in the US and Canada)@@that70sgirl90

I'm fortunate that my Dad was an ELO fan in the 70s and early 80s. They were my favorite records to spin.

I love MIDNIGHT's live performances.

Loved the Midnight Special. Watched it every Friday night back in the '70s.

Love this song! Feels like an old friend calling me back,,,what a fantastic band they are, Jeff has a great voice! ❤

@marykayd2781

10 ай бұрын

Makes me cry for so much of my life passed. Life is so short…

@KittyGrizGriz

10 ай бұрын

@@marykayd2781 it sure has gone by 💨 hasn’t it? I’m a Mari Ann, nice to meet ya! 😊

Best live band ever! Long live Jeff Lynne's ELO in concert this Summer and Fall of 2024 in the US and Canada ( 32 Concerts).

@Kim-yy8kl

9 күн бұрын

I'm going!

"Bank job in the city yeah... Robin Hood and William Tell and Ivanhoe and Lancelot They don't envy me, yeah..." 1 of the best lyrics ever!

Ladies and gentlemen: Jeff Lynne without sunglasses!!!

My god this is ELO GOLD. What an intro from Eldorado. What a group. What memories of the golden era of life for people my age...

@julenepegher6999

3 ай бұрын

The best memories of those days!!

😊 2024 and it's still a beautiful masterpiece 😊

One of the great albums of the 70's.

@louiebee6745

10 ай бұрын

Eldorado just takes you on a journey from start to finish.👍✌😎

@Mankind_-

10 ай бұрын

One of my first albums.

@charlesking5328

2 ай бұрын

​@@Mankind_-ELO & Yes we're both different & both great , in comparison to most of the other great bands back then.

I want to go back to this time so badly! Midnight Special helps me feel like I am there. 👍

@pablocruise9514

10 ай бұрын

Bring me along!

Memories of reading the lyrics on the LP liner, then thumbing thru the dictionary to look up the word “chicane” . . .

@Swlabr61

2 ай бұрын

I remember doing the same thing! 😆

Loved watching the Midnight Special and Don Kirschner’s Rock Concert as a 70’s teenager. Loved this song!

My favorite ELO song! I remember buying the El Dorado LP as a teenager in the 1970s.

I’ve never really gotten them out of my head.🤭 ELO sparks so many great memories from the 70’s!!

I was close enough to Lynne to shine his shoes as I was pressed up against the stage on THIS Eldorado Tour 1974 in Tucson Arizona!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 And On The Third Day absolutely changed my life!!!

What a great song

I took music for granted back then.

@charlesking5328

2 ай бұрын

Doesn't hardly seem possible 😊

@georgeburge7136

23 күн бұрын

you said it!!! 64 years old and just assumed great music would be made always.

Sure brings back the great memories of my high school days- very early 80's- driving around , aimlessly with my good friend, smoking some good weed and jamming on ELO. He introduced me to this group. Where does the time go ?

@billwhicker3511

10 ай бұрын

where indeed, but go it does.

@shadowwolf9503

10 ай бұрын

@@billwhicker3511 Roger that

ELO was all over the late 70s, when I was a preschooler. These songs bring me back to such a carefree era

Jeff is so good!!!we love you Jeff Lynn!!!

Jeff Lynne doesn't get enough appreciation. Heck, even when I was younger I was, like "ELO is pretty great but Lynne wants to be all 4 Beatles so bad...AND George Martin!" What an ungrateful little shit I was. This rules. 🤘😎🤘

The Midnight Special, for some of us like myself, that was our KZread back in the day...great music, great memories!

@charlesking5328

2 ай бұрын

Yes it was , along with Don's "In Concert"

@magneto7930

2 ай бұрын

@charlesking5328 absolutely, In Concert, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, Soundstage, etc., so many great shows!

Jeff is an amazing vocalist and songwriter. Saw ELO at Madison Square Garden in 2018 and he still sounded great. Hope he tours again. 😃🎸

Ah live music. It's awesome, even the bass clam at 2:40 is awesome.

Going to see them again in Oct, can't wait. Saw them a few years ago and sounded great but this is one hit they didn't play

Such a stunning performance! How I wish that I was born earlier so that I could have experienced this live, fabulous stuff. Love it!!

Classic performance... brings back wonderful memories from my teen years growing up in Chicago, watching original airings of, "Midnight Special"

I was in high school in 1974 when I discovered ELO. I had all their albums and 8 tracks for my car. My friends were all listening to Zepplin, Marshal Tucker, 38 Special, Lynyrd Skynyrd,The Stones and other top 40 rock radio bands. I just heard something in their music and I was hooked.

The first time I heard this song I had an out of body experience I still can't get it out of my head, brings tears to my eyes to this day.

The intro and the arrangement that follows is performed exactly as it was recorded for the Eldorado LP. Cool stuff!

wow - superb quality. Both video and sound. It's usually hard to tell waht they were capable of live because the few live reordings that have come down to us are quite poor quality. This is good stuff

What a band! What a concept!

I remember watching this the night it aired.

Interesting. That's Kelly Groucutt on bass and Michael Edwards on cello. This must be one of Kelly's first performances, replacing Mike De Albuquerque and one of Mike's last before he departed.

@Lance37a

10 ай бұрын

His backing vocals are great.

@coinneachmaclellan3121

5 ай бұрын

​@Lance37a Kelly Groucutt contributed so much to ELO...I love his performance during "Rockaria" on 'The Midnight Special'...

ELO was yet another one of my favorite bands. The 70s, we were spoiled watching Midnight Special being able to see such talented and diverse artists artists perform. So hard for me to pick a favorite ELO song!

Fantastic!

Quite simply the most beautiful musical prologue ever written... sheer perfection. Amazing then, still amazing now almost 50 years later. Thank-you MS.

WOW - I love this channel! I can't believe they performed the intro live- I've always loved that album. Sounds beautiful

I think this is one of their greatest albums..

Great song!. Thanks The Midnight Special.

One of the few times I ever saw Jeff without glasses! Very cool beginning, great song! OLE-ELO!

Absolutely beautiful and song is amazing

So, I'm a 9, maybe 10-year-old kid. At my dad's house, and I'm home alone watching tv. This comes on and I am blown away, Literally scared the sht out of me....Have been a fan of ELO ever since.

One of the great band of all time

My favorite ELO tune. The look of this clip is why I loved the MS. TV producers knew how to make it look great. Much better looking than any '70s concert videos.

great song and very rare footage of Jeff Lynne without sunglasses

Great class and elegance... No any possible mistake... Only they did that personal sound ...

Love it, my favorite ELO tune!

Sweet leaping Jesus, this is amazing

Thank you Jeff Lynne for giving this world such beautiful music !

Line up between Eldorado and Face the music, with Kelly Groucutt already in the band for Mike d'Alberquerque on bass.

@Swlabr61

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, I had no idea Kelly had already replaced Mike at that point. I see the late Mike Edwards was still there, although he left the band that month. This must've been one of his final ELO performances.

I saw them in the 70s👏

Thank you very much!!!... 🔝 ELO

AWESOME! Thanks for the upload👍

Jeff has eyes!

Ive loved them since I was a little girl, you can definitely hear the Beatle influence!❤

This is ELO !

I used to love watching the midnight special. I was a kid. But loved it. Peace and 🎵 joy 🎵 thanks 8888

This song was my introduction to ELO, and still stands up as one of their very best.

Great song ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

R.I.P Richard Tandy.

Love ELO! Haven't heard this song in decades! Def Beatle-esk but we all take from those who came before. ❤🤘

What an amazing song rock on jeff lynne and elo God Bless ❤

Jeff forget his glasses. Nice to hear them in warm sound not dry like their records.

Great song, great song writer, great band, great performance!

Wow. Just wow.

What a talent

10/18/24 Dallas . Can’t wait, thought I had missed the chance to see him , gonna be great!

The amazing Bev Bevan on drums.

@KittyGrizGriz

10 ай бұрын

Love his name 😉

I remember watching episode I thought how cool is that there are two cellos and a guy playing a violin.

Great live performance

I read about how hard it was for ELO to mike the violins. Regular mikes meant they had to rigidly play under a microphone and the violin pickups back then would cause screeching feedback in certain positions. I don't know if they ever solved that problem.

@barrysmith8920

10 ай бұрын

The mic problem was solved in late 1973 with Barcus Berry violins and cells. The pickup is built into the bridge. Kaminski’s blue one was hugely popular among most rock and jazz players then. It’s a great violin that sounds killer even up against the Zeta, Yamaha and Wood violins of today. I have one 💙

@scottlarson1548

10 ай бұрын

@@barrysmith8920 Billy Currie of Ultravox switched to a Barcus Berry transducer around 1975 and said that he could finally compete with guitars in terms of volume. He said before that the electric pickups caused horrible feedback so he just played under a microphone. After that he used a Fender Electric violin that sounded great through a guitar amp.

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Jeff say hi, so I can make ANYONE jealous!!😂❤

Paul McCartney called. He wants his DNA back. (You have to admit, that opening with the strings sounds a little like “The Beatles.”)

Jeff Lynne has eyes 😮 Seems like a new 70s band i haven't discovered with Jeff's eyes on show

Amazing masterpiece from the summer of my years.

@billywatson118

10 ай бұрын

Me Too 😊

Perfect song 🎵 for the Midnight Special, we can't get it out our heads🎉🎉

Love this song

on acide....they were DIVINE

Bev Bevan on the drums

THANK YOU MIDNIGHT SPECIAL!!!!

Awesomeness!

......vago por los cerros de Belloto Norte....sus arboles...los calidos atardeceres....alla lejos me lleva esta hermosa cancion....

Thank you!

Did they play Telephone Line on this show by any chance?

@GNF54

9 ай бұрын

Nope, this is the Eldorado Tour from 1974-75. Telephone Line came out in 76’

If you have seen his eyes you have seen everything god biess

I had no idea that Jeff had eyes. Go figure.

Apparently the stagehands were tired of putting up the full set of red letters for “ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA”, LOL. Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to E L O!