ELO - Livin' Thing - American Music Awards 31th Jan 1977

[LorenzoMartinezz]

Not live... lip sync... but I love Jeff, Kelly and Bev anyway!

[NotAFanOfLogins]

Love this song!! reminds me of childhood....aahhhh!

[2012listo]

Yes, the Nautilus WAS a sweet design. Now we're IN it!

[FAWNZR]

That must really suck to have to try and pull that off not even plugged in...wow man. Good job guys!

[JRP020563]

EXCELENTE MATERIAL DE ELO

[Chriskkboongg]

Kelly's unique backing vocal is a gem of ELO.

[rickscafe13902]

what was your first clue... they didn't have wireless in 1977.

[captainstab2003]

i don't think this is live, sounds exactly like studio version.still a good song!

[fran9860]

this is too perfect to be live.

[frizzlefrap]

@fran9860 ...... some of it is replay of prerecording (you can tell that ... do you see anyone playing tamborine or trumpet ... or those females voices) ... but some is live. the boys look calm and collected ..... very nice! .....

[pingcho]

This is Some of the very best music there is, this was from a awsome time, a lot of musicians now days just dont measure up at all

[NotAFanOfLogins]

@pingcho so true! nothing is like this stuff nowadays...

[pacmanindy]

I watched a lot of AMAs over the years! This performance is old school AMA. Now the AMA has gone techno!

[Jellogel]

Once upon a time, talent came first

[Jas8631]

Great song, good lip synching

[busteroo7]

ladies and gentlemen rob ross bass guitar...

[Laynefreeborn]

Wish music like this this would come back. I doubt it ever will, glad i was there to live it.

[mimickick]

Kind of amazing that you could have this much creative effort put into the mounting of a live performance that was ultimately lipsynched. Kind of like today's pop in many ways. Not that I don't love ELO 1000x more than today's pop...

[Memnet]

This is what the Beatles may have sounded like had they continued into the 70's

[692ALBANNACH]

I heard it was memorix.

[ben6killer]

all the violin players must be out of the camera shot

[jody808]

i used to love ELO, especially Telephone Line

[Ken5244]

Nice song, but this is an awful miming job. Not even close. (Sorry, Jeff.) It's kinda funny that Jeff is pretending to play a 12-string electric here when there's no electric guitar in the song (it's all acoustic). Oh, and said electric isn't even plugged in to an amp. I know a lot of credible bands get forced to mime for TV shows, but this wasn't one of their better efforts, was it? :-P

[RAG1060]

They were absoultely terrific - tremendously talented. Where is this today? Not easily found, I'm afraid.

[tuppy20]

Wow! Never seen this. I love seeing Jeff w/o his glasses. Just a doll!!! Thank you so much for posting!!!!

[sunspark01]

great great band--Kelly is awesome!!!!!

[CamCohen]

I love Hugh's suit in this video!

[DailyMouth]

Jeff Lynne without shades ... very rare indeed.

[xtrastage]

Total lip-sync.

[shleml]

@xtrastage Well daaaaaw!!

[mkwestcott1]

he looks nervous...

[flashfast2000]

Great Quality!

[shelly10538]

This is fantastic! I have seen still photos of this for years but never knew what it was from or anything. This is truly rare.

[nomiclas]

nice back drop for 1977.i love the pitsacoto violin!

[pinkandjefflynne]

Nailed it, well done 10/10

[sunboyfun]

@pinkandjefflynne Of course they "Nailed It", it's mimed :)

Still great to see!

[ltownguitarplayer]

@pinkandjefflynne sorry to break it to you, but when you mime a song its always perfect

[KSitz77]

@ltownguitarplayer 1:17 shows the violin and the bow is not touching the strings......now that was a mean camera man......seriously tho this group had a unique approach with adding all those strings to their songs.

[bjknobel]

@KSitz77 "bow not on string" may be an illusion caused by the extreme thin-ness of the violin's E-string. Keeping the bow in the air would just be too much work. (You see drumsticks hitting drums in mime performances all the time, certainly the stage act doesn't have to maintain silence while miming.) Admittedly, after viewing a couple times, it's stil difficult to tell for sure.

[BHH10]

CRYSTAL CLEAR WITH GREAT AUDIO - TERRIFIC! THANKS FOR POSTING!

[victorchestra]

vaya joya Jorge!!

[djbartlett]

Why was Jeff and the boys ALWAYS such God-awful lip synchers! Ha Ha!

[FinnMove]

@djbartlett This is the way I got known ELO those

days. Wonderful performance. No negative comments please !

This video is absolutely brilliant !

[djbartlett]

@FinnMove Whoa dude...you've REALLY gotta chill out! I've probably been a Move / ELO / Jeff Lynne fan longer than you've been alive! I think they are a great band and Jeff is brilliant...but you've got to acknowledge that it's pretty funny just how bad at lip synching Jeff is especially considering this is probably the 100th time they had to "perform" this song on some TV show!

[FinnMove]

Very beautiful video ! Thanks !