In 1977 I called into a local radio station to make a request. As it turn out I just happened to call at the right time and won 4 tickets to see ELO. By accident. I tried selling them to make a few bucks and got no takers. The night of the show. I gave 1 away and a decided to go with a couple of friends with the remaining 3 tickets. It was hands down one of the best concerts I have ever attended! And I have seen some big bad mammer jammers. From Aerosmith to Zeppelin. ELO was the real deal. Long live RNR!

@davidtrask3640

Ай бұрын

I got lucky and saw Queen at Irvine amphitheater only because I wanted to get in this chics pants !!!! Thank good because best concert ever !!!! Freddie Mercury tippy toeing all over the stage , what a show

@davidtrask3640

18 күн бұрын

I got dragged to a Queen concert , I didn’t want to go but that beautiful goddess girlfriend of mine made me !!! Thank God because that was the best concert I’ve ever been to . And got to explore the goddess afterwards ❤❤❤❤❤❤

@joelewing4498

7 күн бұрын

+dedeo8957: Fine post, Dadeo. Well done. I'm 70 at the end of '24. Which means like you, I grew up seeing tons of bad-ass arena shows....starting in high school in '71 (Alice Cooper) (one of THE BEST I"VE EVER SEEN). SO glad to be a strong-azz Boomer....still diggin' this kind of music. Not afraid to crank it up, either. jbeinarizona

@PsychoThirteen

2 күн бұрын

Stepping into shit, and coming out smelling like roses. You lucky dog!

Jeff Lynne’s hair was MASSIVE! And not wearing his usual shades.

@joshbaker1581

Ай бұрын

Didnt wear them regularly till '78.

God I miss the 70’s 😢

@brucemorton7787

Ай бұрын

the music was outstanding.... still is.

ELO...one of best things of the 70s...a great time to be alive ..😀👍👍🇸🇻

I see more ELO in 2024 than I saw during the 80s and 90s.. happy to see

@kennethpeller7411

29 күн бұрын

For real never saw video of them back then

The most iconic band of the 70s.. just incredible

My daughter's first concert was when she was 5 . Saw them at the Celebrity Theater in Phoenix. She will be 50 on her next birthday and still remembers the concert. What an incredible band.

@edortiz1951

Ай бұрын

I also saw them at the Celebrity Theater. They played there twice in 1974. The tail end of the 'On the Third Day' tour and the beginning of the "Eldorado' tour. Both shows incredible in the round.

@mesaeddie

Ай бұрын

@@edortiz1951 We went to both concerts too . Really unforgettable shows.

@edortiz1951

Ай бұрын

There was a live album recorded a few nights before they played Phoenix in Long Beach, CA, May 12th . It was issued under the title The Night the Went on in Long Beach.

@mesaeddie

Ай бұрын

@@edortiz1951 Thanks I will check it out.

@edortiz1951

Ай бұрын

I'm sorry, the title is The Night the Light Went on in Long Beach.

Mike Edwards, Hugh McDowell and Richard Tandy all no longer with us, RIP to the three of them.

@tommyharyadi9702

Ай бұрын

Kelly Growcutt too (RIP)😢

@barrysmith8920

Ай бұрын

Oh no!! Mik Kaminski still with us?? 🌹

@Blueshirt38

Ай бұрын

I was surprised just the other day to find out Jeff Lynne was still around. I was telling a younger co-worker about the Wilburys and I thought Dylan was the only one still alive, only to find out that Jeff is still touring.

@Kapricorn1

Ай бұрын

@barrysmith8920 yes he is

@andrewsheppard3189

Ай бұрын

Wilfred Gibson RIP as well?

Rock band gone orchestra! Jeff Lynne... musical genius. Inducted into the musical song writers hall of fame. No one more deserving of this honor than Jeff Lynne! I saw him in concert in 2019. He sounded the same as in the 70s. Phenomenal concert! He's touring again. Happy Saturday... thank you for sharing! 💖

@creatinotionchannel2680

Ай бұрын

Yes I saw him with my dad in 2019 as well. He was great!

@spellerlittlewing

Ай бұрын

No ELO in the 70s was a excellent band Now it's suck

Great show, The Midnight Special, great band, ELO, great rock and roll hair, Jeff Lynne 🎸 🙌 ✨💡🌌⏱️🎻

Jeff Lynne is an amazing musician, producer & arranger. His concert at Wembley Stadium many years later was a testament to his influence on the music industry. It was a total family affair, from toddlers to grandparents. Now that's what I call a great artist for the people forever.

ELO recorded many good songs but Showdown is my favorite. My first horse I ever got I named him Showdown after this song.

First time I ever noticed lip singing on Midnight Special....that's the studio version not live

@davelennie1591

Ай бұрын

There are plenty of other examples throughout the show’s run but thankfully the live performances outnumber the lip synced ones. I’ve watched the guitar solo on this one a few times now and compared it with the studio recording. I kinda feel like that part might be live. That’s been done before on MS too… I remember REO doing a song where the main vocals were live but everything else was a track. Slightly more realism, but still a cop out.

@northof4985

Ай бұрын

Thought it lip synced, too.

@Wakeywhodat

Ай бұрын

Prince has a lip synced performance here also. So does John Mellencamp. I agree though, most of what I have personally seen appear to be live.

Ай бұрын

There are live vocals along with the recorded track. Seeing these old MS clips, I'm surprised , though. I don't remember THAT many mimed performances. More than I thought.

@tomorr7692

3 сағат бұрын

Yeah, most of the Midnight Special performances were truly live, including the other times ELO appeared. Can't help but wonder why this one isn't.

Love ELO since childhood

Good Lord, I've have so forgotten this song, but it has been 50 years and a few "lifetimes" since this radio play. God bless

I still can't believe we were all stuck, after their show, in the same Holiday Inn and these guys where in the rooms above ours, it was a hellva ice storm I was so effed up I couldn't climb the stairs to go meet them, but we did party like crazy, my friends wife went up and met them, she said they were all really nice guys, she lost their autographs many years afterward.

@robert71457

Ай бұрын

Oh, this was 1975!

Dig that lion look, bell bottoms, and platform shoes rocking the 70s in style and talent.

Dude, what a good band is this? And that magical sound transports me to the front benches of Midnight Special, I really like that sound

Love early ELO!! A huge reason I play violin is inspiration from the album this song was on: On The Third Day..🙏🏼 The strings are incredible! 🌹 Amazing how huge they became years later

ELO is one of my favorite acts from the Seventies and early Eighties. They performed quite often on the Midnight Special. I'm going to create a playlist from these performances.

Always was & still are an ELO fan. Thanks for posting. 😊

ELO FOREVER!!!... Thank you very much!!!... 🔝💡❤️

Why are they miming? I've seen clips from other music shows of the era and they performed the song perfectly.

@CrandMackerel

Ай бұрын

I think it's because Jeff knew they'd come across better if given the option to mime to the recording. You can't open mic the strings with the stage volume the drums and guitars would generate, and pickup technology was severely lacking back then. There's also the fact that almost all of the background vocals are overdubbed Jeff Lynne. Other voices singing those backup lines just wouldn't sound tight. Compare this, also from 1974: kzread.info/dash/bejne/k6NrmKaCg8feZ9Y.html

Ай бұрын

@@CrandMackerel It was the show's producers who decided those things, not the band/performer. They performed live on MS many times.

Such an original sounding use of strings in an already terrific rock song. Brilliant!

Jeff is a GENIUS artist. He's till alive too. Yay.

Smoking a hooter and enjoying GREAT MUSIC !! A 68 YO vet. and stoner !!!

ELO... simplemente espectacular .

I was in high school when this came out. Had it on 8 track. All my friends were into hard rock and heavy metal. I was into ELO.

I saw them live in 2018 and 2019 in Detroit with my brother and we both loved every single minute!!!!

Ай бұрын

I saw them five times in Detroit (1976-1981)...when they were young and Jeff could still sing.

I wish it was “live” instead of synced to the actual recording. Bev Bevin gave it away.

@JohnFromArlingtron

Ай бұрын

I saw that too. Kids, look at 4:15 there is a snare drum hit but Bev's left hand is on the other side of the kit.

@RetroMusicMan369

Ай бұрын

I agree…but the studio version is kick ass and nothing beats watching the band “perform” a very underrated song 👍

@WTHenry2023

Ай бұрын

I spotted it from the beginning because Jeff Lynn's mouth is too far from the mic for his voice to be projecting like it appears to do. His voice also has too much studio echo effects to be live. The entire arrangement is a precise replica of the studio version. I came into the comments to see if anybody else noticed the lip-synch

@philiphatfield5666

Ай бұрын

David Essex mimed 'Rock On' too, but I never knew E.LO. did too. What a disappointment.

@WTHenry2023

Ай бұрын

@@philiphatfield5666 Agreed. Disappointing. On the other hand, Steve Miller took Fly Like An Eagle to the next level on The Midnight Special. I had no idea how creative Steve Miller was before seeing him on The Midnight Special.

Don't get me wrong, but I wish they would have done this live like on Rockpalast the same year. Bev is fantastic being allowed to cut loose. Showing their true collective talents was easy for ELO. Great to have different versions of this song preserved however- Thank you Midnight Special!

Hi Burt! Thank you! 🙏🤗🍺cheers

Always love 💕 Jeff Lynne and Elo their music was great

I'm such a dork. I didn't know that this was an ELO song, though I've heard it since my 1970s childhood. Awesome Goldtop, Jeff.

I LOVE ELO!!! 🎉🎉🎉

This guy has played with the best. 😊

@johnmourer5747

Ай бұрын

He is one of the best.

Thanks for sharing.

Holy Cow!!!!!! Thanks for the Flashback. Had totally forgotten this song!!!!! ❤❤❤

❤❤❤❤❤ this song!!! so memorable of me yout...saw Jeff Lynne 2018 my dream concert!!

Saw them on their big night tour with the spaceship. Saw a couple years after that as well. Great band.

Saw them in about 2017. A top 3 concert for me out of hundreds of concerts. Simply amazing!

Great music man!😊

I was born 5 days later on 13. January 1974. ❤️🥰😍😘

I remember watching this the night it was broadcast.

Saw them at Philadelphia’s Schubert theater around this time

A great unique sound.

This song has some serious meaning

Electric Light Orchestra🛸🧬ROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻

First time I see Jeff Lynne without glasses

@chrismiller5875

Ай бұрын

First time I ever seen Jeff Lynn lip sing

Looked outside, yep its raining.

Great song and band ❤

Elo is the bomb

Very good tune 👍

I really like ELP thanks

@dehydratedwater9806

Ай бұрын

Emerson Lake and Palmer?

@me-also-youtuber

Ай бұрын

@@dehydratedwater9806 just kidding

@KittyGrizGriz

Ай бұрын

I like them. Too!

ELO is one of the greatest band's of the 70's.

Sábado com ELO , tudo de bom ❤

I love ELO! One of my favorite bands. Amazing, unique sound. Jeff Lynne is a musical genius with a voice that could melt butter. I thought his glasses were part a part of his facial anatomy, but I guess I'm wrong

Still here from my childhood great time Elo 🎉🎉70s best forever ❤️ miss good old days

Siempre espere está magnífica actuación. Gracias MS.

Verdadera joya 💎

So Cool and on the rock spot.

Crikey! That hair!!

Love that Lion look.

My favorite ELO song

God gave Jeff Lynne a very special gift and he's done the right thing w/it...we are so lucky !!!

Ten thousand thumbs up!!!!!

MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, Upload the band WIZARD there should be something in the vault very nice performances by the band Wizard live on midnight special

Best band I've ever seen live.

Kingpin!!!!!

Great band.

I can't remember the last time I heard this song and seeing the video, 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤

My favorite ELO song besides Sweet Talkin Woman!!!!

Such a great back catalogue. One of the best concerts I ever saw, ELO at Wembley in the 70's. Still as good in 2018 at the O2!

The guys a musical and songwriting genius......great musicians as well.....👍👍👍👍👍

I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE

One of the many kings of AM radio. The sound track to bailing hay and filling our silos in the summer.

SUPER GRUPO GRACIAS A USTEDES

Thanks very much for upload. Last week I saw Phil Bates (former ELO Part II) live here in Germany, as tribute to ELO, also with this song. Nice gig and worth to see, great musicians.

Jeff Lynne has a smooth sensation of singing

Can't wait to see them hosting in 1975

All these bands did Midnight Special live, why has ELO been synced?

❤❤🎉 ELO 🎉❤❤

Classic ✌🏼

It’s a red submarine!

❤❤❤❤❤

I was going to say 'Hey Jeff, you can take your hat off indoors😂

I miss this time.

She cried to the southern wind About a love that was sure to end Every dream in her heart was gone Headin' for a Showdown Bad dreamer, what's your name? Looks like we're ridin' on the same train Looks as through there'll be more pain There's gonna be a Showdown And it's rainin' all over the world It's raining all over the world Tonight, the longest night

ELO meets The Alan Parsons Project!!!

Cool ELO. Even a live performance he is able to have a dual sound in his voice. Wow!

@donwillis9103

Ай бұрын

Lol, watch Telephone line on this channel to hear him live.

And you never saw his eyes ever again😂

Mike de Albuquerque playing a Horizontal Ampeg Scroll bass, (and rockin it). You really can't get much cooler than that, I tell you.

I had a really odd experience having seen them at MSG on 2 consecutive tours. I love Jeff and like a lot of us back then went to as many concerts as possible. Tickets were from $5 - $8 in 1970s. It must've been touring either the 'Face The Music' or 'A New World Order' (whatever was just before 'Out of The Blue') and it sounded like a turd. Sometimes bands sound completely different live but this was like a High School Marching Band. Only Jeff + Kelly Crocutt did vocals and instead of rich layers of vocals it was more 'A cappella' or 'Unplugged' before it was invented. The next tour was with the Space Ship and that show was PHENOMENAL and what you exoected from ELO. Then weeks later I read a tiny blurb in the paper said Detroit's Cobo Hall was suing ELO's management for using pre-recorded bits for their show but I saw 2 tours - WITH + WITHOUT and WITH WAS A MUCH BETTER ALL AROUND SHOW

Anyone who knows Jeff Lynne knows he's not miming one of the greatest voices of all time ❤

❤❤❤

Jeff without glasses is a rare sight .

this appears to be live, what a performance!!!

@neilyoungfan

Ай бұрын

No, definitely not live. Jeff is lip syncing for sure.

@GNF54

Ай бұрын

@@neilyoungfanI’m pretty sure Jeff and (maybe) Mike are doing live vocals over a backing track

@jhors7777

Ай бұрын

@@neilyoungfan interesting, thank you. i was wondering why it sounded so good:)

@neilyoungfan

Ай бұрын

@@GNF54 Yeah, possibly, but definitely not totally live.

And WRW and PDW are battling each other.

I like the strings. I think they are playing what might be called “Native American scales” although that might not be the correct name. I vaguely remember a Styx song doing the same although I’m at a loss for which song. (I had to look it up. I think it’s called a “minor pentatonic scale” which players today use five notes per octave although the original scale was six notes, a long time ago. I believe there are some Asian scales with five notes per octave that gives the music a unique sound. Think “Train to Bangkok” I think it’s called by Rush. Anyways the minor pentatonic is I think related to the Western minor supposedly. I should’ve listened more in music class.)

It’s funny because ELO is also a scale for comparing players in zero-sum games. It’s pretty common in chess. I don’t know if the term came about before or after ELO the band though. But I think Magnus Carlson maybe has or had the highest ELO rating ever in chess. But whenever I see or hear the band ELO I always think of chess. “You go, Magnus!” although he doesn’t really need a cheering section as I think he drew Kasparov when Magnus was around 12 years old or so and was probably the youngest World Champion ever, I think at around 21 maybe.