The biggest thing i am surprised by here is...that they allowed the epic length of this single performance...9 plus minutes! pretty cool....and also, some shows did full pre-recorded (including mimed / lip-synch) performances while others did pre-recorded backing tracks (band/music) with live vocals
Now I know why Jeff Lynne (almost) always performed wearing dark glasses! Wow, what big, dark circles we have around our eyes! (Awesome musical talent, but...)
I worked P/T for a company called Fitch Electronics (while in high school) . In mid-February of 1977, we did (some of) the sound work for the Out of the Blue tour at the Philadelphia Spectrum. My guidance counselor was an ELO fan, and made arrangements for me to bag three days. The sound checks were breathtaking, and Mik Kaminski performed a violin rift that was awesome! The engineering staff that were part of the ELO tour had problems with the hydraulics on the spaceship. Man, what memories!!
@jcelephant1968 Knowing then what I know now, I would have savored every moment of the '70s. What a fool I was not to realize just how very special that decade was while it really mattered. We live in a time where everything is homogenous, a Ford is identical to a Chevy and to a KIA, talent is no longer nurtured, there are no more super-stars. I remember when Maury hosted "People are Talking" on Philadelphia's KYW-TV, Channel 3. Sad thing is, what will Gen Y listen to in their golden years, rap?
@sweetbrowneyedlady Tenes mucha razón Jeff no es de este planeta una persona con un genio y creatividad tan grande no puede ser del planeta Tierra, maestro de maestros!!!
Con E.L.O sucede algo parecido como lo que pasa con Phil Collins hoy en día muchos no consideran tan importante su música solo por prejuicios y comentarios de críticos comprados por las tendencias reinantes. Jeff Lynne creo en toda la década de los '70 una de las músicas mas bellas nunca antes creadas tanto su etapa del '71-'74 como la mas comercial del '75-'80 son imprescindibles y altamente recomendable para todo fan real y verdadero de la buena música. Gracias por siempre JEFF LYNNE!!!
"walking on a wave chicane..." what a great line. I love Jeff Lynne's writing style. Funny how he favors certain words in his songs like "blue" but that's Jeff. About the lip-sync though. This was used for a lot of reasons. Number one, to eliminate any errors that might happen live but also to promote songs as they were heard on radio. Remember, these were AM radio times with very little exposure in any other media. To be on any TV show was a big deal and you want to get it right.
OK kiddies, I'm gonna explain how we watched bands on daytime talk shows in the old days. Every single band had a lip-sync performance, from David Bowie to Peter Frampton to ELO! Even American Bandstand never had a live performance from their guest bands. That's just the way it was done back then. I'm old and I know, because I was there. This is a great, RARE appearance by ELO, including Kelly Groucutt's early look, and you should appreciate it for what it is - CLASSIC!
@stinkypants10 , I think its interesting that even a band would be allowed to play for 9 minutes straight. No show could ever waste that much time anymore.
As I said, "daytime talk shows in the old days" were lip synced. The exception was John Lennon on Mike Douglas, who performed live. Midnight Special was not daytime - Dumbass.
@richiebear1969 I agree...but, they had to promote the current album...which I love...and they would NEVER had been able to get the total orchestra into that studio! "Can't Get It Out of My Head" would eventualy go Top 10 and Gold...no complaints...
ive seen all kindsa bands live. if this, i havent heard it yet, sounds bad its either because of miserable recording or lack of rehearsal. it doesnt matter if there are 2, 3 instruments or chamber quartet or symphony. and this sounds amazing to me, its dubbed from vhs fer chris' sake. eee lll ooo!!! its pretty damn good live recording; i bet it sounds like gold in stereo on tape.
I doubt they would have hired the string section if they were just going to "pipe" the music in and the sound is not above the ability of the musicians and the instruments including the synth on the piano...
OK This was as as LIVE as it could be - tape sync, plus live, whatever - do you have any idea how hard that is to perform? Jeff Lynne is a GENIUS and has left a legacy - he is like TODD RUNDGREN IN HIS DEDICATION to making the artist's vision a reality, PLUS THE PRODUCER'S own vision TO MAKE THE result as great as it can be. The Trav. Wilburys music and the George Harrison tribute are a a testament to Jeff's LOVE for his mates. God BLESS you Jeff Lynne!
@jrm2fla If I had tried I couldn't have stated the facts any better!! Every word you wrote about Jeff, Todd, & Jeff's love for George!! JEFF LYNNE IS A GENIUS.....it is worth saying again!!
@philumber Yeah, yeah. True...and yet!...ELO had a magical, surreal, "that lost weekend you had as a teenager", "we're going on a strange" trip flavor that the Beatles didn't have. It's an apples/oranges comparison. And while the Beatles were solidly good...cake...ELO was the Roco frosting flurishes on top of the cakes. Going, outrageously, cheesily, and (I'd not say "one-dimensional", but) effect-drivenly out there! I love the Beatles, but they had conventions needed by older Baby Boomers.
Love love love ELO....no more to be said, although I will add that the problem with British people is that they live with too much nostalgia. I am British but cannot stand this harping on about how great so and so was, when in reality they were never that great to begin with, more a case of being in the right place at the right time,
Jeff Lynne's music is original...I dont know how certain people can say he went through the Beatles catalogue. I'm sure many or all ELO fans would take exception to that, I certainly do.
@chatterbox904 I believe ELO was superior to the Beatles. The reason they weren't as big was because the Beatles came along first and bands like ELO were considered Beatles ripoffs.
@donn409 it was a Merseyside versus Birmingham thing - Jeff Lynne's earlier band where once touted to be bigger than the Beatles check them out The Idle Race sheer brillance
@tatunkha To me, ELO was superior to the Beatles but the Babyboomers will never allow anyone to be bigger than the Beatles. It's sad really. Because it stiffles new talent which is why the music business is in the mess it's in now. They are willing to throw ELVIS under the bus but not their beloved Beatles.
@tatunkha I've been watching alot of IDLE RACE'S videos and they were superior to the Beatles. There was obviously a conspiracy to stop bands like them from overshadowing and outselling the Beatles. RINGO IS DEAD! LONG LIVE JEFF LYNNE!
MUST'VE BEEN A SCAREY GIG! This is how the 70s were. As a youth it pissed me off. Now I see the bands had no choice. he you need techs and expensive equipment to do live bands in a tv studio setting, and they didn't wanna be spending money on that 'cause they didn't think it would pay off in sponsorships for expensive -to-produce shows. There was almost NO real live TV music performances back then. It sucked. VERY few performances were real. - but sometimes they sang live to a track.whatever...
ELO could perform live, actually: check out their performance in Long Beach in 1974 or at Wembley in 1978. The reason they, and almost every other band in the 70's and 80's lipsynched, is because most talk- and musicshow producers refused to have pure live music on their shows. Top Of The Pops, The Mike Douglas Show, Soul Train, etc. used background tapes for ages, and only quit until recently, with the advent of proper musicvideos.
everybodys like dead from theis clip..life is bullshit..you suffer then your dead...this is hell...i dont wanna go anywhere after i wanna be dead...living sucks balls for most humans....
fucking elo its like they alwasy have canned pretaped music..i always feel they are faking it every clip i see...
jeff lynne is talented by gruesome looking....i now know why he always wears dark shades to hide those baggy eyes...
Too bad a damn lip sync, and hell yes they can be performed live I just seen another video with the same song performed by Lynn and ELO on the Midnight Special that same year! Bringing on those musicians on stage to do a lip sync is ridiculous. Just let the sit there and talk and play their song instead!
I usually do give kind words to most people Sausage man, but your previous post was very unkind indeed
"Shut up moron. Grow a brain, then I will let you talk. Ed"
Afterall all I was doing was making a comment about lip syncing, I just cant believe all the nasty trolls who send hate messages on here just because of someones opinion. Not to mention all the profanity, at least you didnt resort to that!
I think folks weren't so hung up on lip syncing back in 1974 as they are now.
Jeff and the band have been accused for years of pre recording and using it during live shows. It dind't stop me from becoming a huge fan. Damn, ELO is good!
Darrin Mcgavin did a great rendition of "The Tell-Tale Heart" on Mike Douglas around '74 or '75. I can't find it anywhere. If you have access to that show and could post it, that would be awesome.
In response to jeff lynne being gay by dimpledick3inch, what you talking about, hes had more woman than you and i put together.If he was gay big deal hes the most gifted musician alive today, and by the way some of my best friends are gay.Jeff lynnes new soon to be released cd is supposed to be awsome, he recorded it in pink [just kidding]
Thanks for posting this. Great! I can really hear the Beatles influence with Out of my Head and then how it transmuted back to Lennon for his Solo stuff, and then of course Tom Petty and Dylan. It's all there. That Lennon-Dylan-Lynn-Petty vocal nasal smear is there.. at 6:23-6:28 in full effect. What a chameleon, or conduit..what have you, Jeff Lynn is super.
It was a simpler time then. The population would have suffered a greater shock for the music not to sound exactly like it did on the radio, rather than to learn your musical heroes sang to a track.
@Bag0fRats what would your Mother think if she heard her daughter talk that way, somebody needs to take her meds.
Than you'll have a better chance of doing the right thing..like going to church and praying and asking the Lord to help you with the sex demon that has invaded your spirit
Did you really think songs like these could be performed live?? Even now it would be a struggle without a massive orchestra....criticise them if you want, but the songs were absolutely fantastic!
@elodevi It is not really fair for people to single out ELO. If you look at other Mike Douglas show videos, you will see that most are lip-synched rather than performed live. I am not saying this is good or bad, but it was how it was done in this case. The purpose of the show was clearly to advertise these bands so that they could reach a wider audience, so I am with you in that it doesn't really matter if it was played live or not. I am not a fan of the music, but that's just my taste.
I don't think it's a case of whether they COULD or not. They pretty much could play live albeit a bit sparer. But touring like this, they're charging from town to town, doing radio interviews, appearances, tv appearances interviews etc. There would be no question of playing live - not practical. It's into the studio, mime to the song, move on.
@smallcyril Yeh songs are are unbelievable I agree. This performance is definitely mimed or sung along with a backing track. There's other synth parts happening when no one is playing and check out Jeff's mouth to the vocal on 5:18/5:19. But I don't care...I love this guy.
most of the stuff on tv for years was lip synced because they did not want to pay for all the time, engineering and equipment to do it live, it was basically easier and cheaper
I have answered this one so often,I think It would be better if they did!.
They used introduction music in the late 70's that was pre-recorded.Once the show actually started,they utterly on there own.
these rumours were meant to try and discredit the "Dinosaurs".
They said the same thing about Led Zeppelin in 1979.The reason there was no bass player on stage when one was clearly heard was because he was playing a keyboard,and the Bass notes with his feet!.
The groundbreaking mike douglas show came out of philadelphia. John and yoko co-hosted one week. In those days, rock acts wanted to appeal to the parents of the kids..this and ed sullivan show were a good outlet to reach them.
Nice footage...I always hate to see the lipsyncing and faking, though...but I know a lot of shows did that. And ELO's music was so difficult to reproduce on stage, they resorted to tape for some songs while in concert. Jeff, he's such a perfectionist, lol. //dan
OMG!they are promoting Poor Boy as well as Can't Get it Out of my Head!.I always thought PB wa a lost gem that should have been a single!.I have found out recently that it was not as neglected as I had once believed, which is neat,and a huge suprise, as I thought(and still do)think that even Jeff was not always the best judge of his talent!.
It was the B side for Telephone Line - although commercially they were 3-4 years off their peak, I still think Eldorado was their creative peak and these two tracks are two of the best - fantastic melodies and string arrangements!
I too don't want to argue, because in part I concur! But what about Rick Wakeman's Myths and Legends? Or Queen's output until 1977? Or Yes or Genesis albums? I think it was punk that killed it in '77 (apart from the exceptions you mention). Interestingly, I've recently been watching some of the videos here from Time, esp the one where the footage is from Metropolis - Prologue/Twilight - check it out! I agree it was their "swan song" - and WAY ahead of its, er, "time"! Sorry, no pun intended!
by 1977,the game was up,and most of the 60's generation were in sad decline.
I am (just) old enough to remember that punk came along and "Forever Spoilt Music" and made it "Grotesque".I believed all that at the time, and for years afterwards,but I've long realised that they (or at least the more intelligent exponents),were actually trying to put the excitement back into Rock.
Sadly,they failed,but managed to make some good Music nonetheless.
Funny to think at the time they were appearing on high profile TV shows in the US at the same time as they were outnumbering their audiences back in the UK lol, no wonder Jeff refused to tour there again until 1976, At least the Americans knew this was something special whilst we where listening to crap on the radio here in the UK
How on earth has this GREAT MAN managed to keep producing such inspirational music over a 30 odd year span??? I think he has had some extraterrestrial help.I dont think Jeff is of this Earth!!
God, as guests of the show, I sure hope Jeff Lynne and the boys got the waffle baker from True Value Hardware Stores! I'm pretty sure they did, because I think that was the source of at least one of the special effects on their "Out of The Blue" album a few years later. Anyway, they wouldn't have achieved the greatness they richly deserve without that waffle baker!
This band helped me sway my parents opinion of rock when I was much younger. There was NOBODY like them. Nuff said
MegaMelbur 1 day ago
Actress and now singer Sally kellerman!!!! she could never sing her career was going downhill at the time.
lkhutch88 2 weeks ago
WOW! Fantastic footage! I didn't know this even existed. Thanks!
AgitatorRecoil 3 weeks ago
The biggest thing i am surprised by here is...that they allowed the epic length of this single performance...9 plus minutes! pretty cool....and also, some shows did full pre-recorded (including mimed / lip-synch) performances while others did pre-recorded backing tracks (band/music) with live vocals
glueforall 2 months ago
and most of the talk shows back then .... have all that jazz at beginning and end of show ........ that was the thing!
frizzlefrap 3 months ago
@frizzlefrap and Pryor sounding the most bored i've every heard him...interesting gig for him!
glueforall 2 months ago
brings back fond memories
Silverexpress01 3 months ago
Now I know why Jeff Lynne (almost) always performed wearing dark glasses! Wow, what big, dark circles we have around our eyes! (Awesome musical talent, but...)
cpuwrite 3 months ago
My mother and 3 of her sisters were on the Mike Douglas show. I remember watching them live at my aunt's house... lol
deke024 3 months ago
Wonder if Jeff Lynne got the waffle maker from True Value Hardware.
jigglar 3 months ago
But Todd Rundgren did not lypsyc - no disrespect to Jeff Lynne and them though
iamacamera44 4 months ago 2
I worked P/T for a company called Fitch Electronics (while in high school) . In mid-February of 1977, we did (some of) the sound work for the Out of the Blue tour at the Philadelphia Spectrum. My guidance counselor was an ELO fan, and made arrangements for me to bag three days. The sound checks were breathtaking, and Mik Kaminski performed a violin rift that was awesome! The engineering staff that were part of the ELO tour had problems with the hydraulics on the spaceship. Man, what memories!!
AMStationEngineer 4 months ago
I used to watch this show every day after school!
blazak 5 months ago
I still can't believe Richard Pryor and ELO in the afternoon....and we get Wendy and Maury
jcelephant1968 6 months ago
@jcelephant1968 Knowing then what I know now, I would have savored every moment of the '70s. What a fool I was not to realize just how very special that decade was while it really mattered. We live in a time where everything is homogenous, a Ford is identical to a Chevy and to a KIA, talent is no longer nurtured, there are no more super-stars. I remember when Maury hosted "People are Talking" on Philadelphia's KYW-TV, Channel 3. Sad thing is, what will Gen Y listen to in their golden years, rap?
AMStationEngineer 4 months ago
@jcelephant1968
Yeah. Talk shows have sure changed for the worse. Bummer.
jigglar 3 months ago
Lip-sync or not, these are better tunes than just about anywhere!!
brugglesby 6 months ago 3
Fantastic. To think they were writing this just prior to the disco "explosion". Thank God there was some sanity in music .
wpollock1 6 months ago
muchas gracias elodevi .......eres grande amigo
jcbulsan 7 months ago
como se llama la cancion, fantastica fue el año en que naci...increible
jcbulsan 7 months ago
@jcbulsan las canciones son Poor Boy y Can´t Get It out of My Head
elodevi 7 months ago
pedazo de video..como alguien dijo mas abajo...jeff is god.........
krztian86 7 months ago
@sweetbrowneyedlady Tenes mucha razón Jeff no es de este planeta una persona con un genio y creatividad tan grande no puede ser del planeta Tierra, maestro de maestros!!!
MrMetantropo 7 months ago
Con E.L.O sucede algo parecido como lo que pasa con Phil Collins hoy en día muchos no consideran tan importante su música solo por prejuicios y comentarios de críticos comprados por las tendencias reinantes. Jeff Lynne creo en toda la década de los '70 una de las músicas mas bellas nunca antes creadas tanto su etapa del '71-'74 como la mas comercial del '75-'80 son imprescindibles y altamente recomendable para todo fan real y verdadero de la buena música. Gracias por siempre JEFF LYNNE!!!
MrMetantropo 7 months ago
"walking on a wave chicane..." what a great line. I love Jeff Lynne's writing style. Funny how he favors certain words in his songs like "blue" but that's Jeff. About the lip-sync though. This was used for a lot of reasons. Number one, to eliminate any errors that might happen live but also to promote songs as they were heard on radio. Remember, these were AM radio times with very little exposure in any other media. To be on any TV show was a big deal and you want to get it right.
SThompsonRAMM 7 months ago
Did he ever look young?I bet that bitch came out of the womb,and the parents thought he was black with that fro!
gahloot 8 months ago
OMG!!!!!!! Sally Kellerman sang???????
FlavioGirl 8 months ago
OK kiddies, I'm gonna explain how we watched bands on daytime talk shows in the old days. Every single band had a lip-sync performance, from David Bowie to Peter Frampton to ELO! Even American Bandstand never had a live performance from their guest bands. That's just the way it was done back then. I'm old and I know, because I was there. This is a great, RARE appearance by ELO, including Kelly Groucutt's early look, and you should appreciate it for what it is - CLASSIC!
stinkypants10 9 months ago 21
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@stinkypants10
"OK kiddies, I'm gonna explain how we watched bands on daytime talk shows in the old days"
You said it brother!
zapdelivers 9 months ago
@stinkypants10 yep!
unoalice333 8 months ago 2
@stinkypants10 You tell em my friend. we older people really appreciate the great talent of those days
sunspark01 6 months ago 9
@sunspark01 AMEN
earthmother 6 months ago
@stinkypants10 , I think its interesting that even a band would be allowed to play for 9 minutes straight. No show could ever waste that much time anymore.
ZinkDude 2 months ago
@stinkypants10 it can't be a classic when you're lip synchin'.
conselago 2 months ago
@stinkypants10 Midnight Special was always live - Poser
MissTeenPregnancy 3 weeks ago
@MissTeenPregnancy
As I said, "daytime talk shows in the old days" were lip synced. The exception was John Lennon on Mike Douglas, who performed live. Midnight Special was not daytime - Dumbass.
stinkypants10 3 weeks ago
Cant get it out of my head.. pt.2..fkin magic!
apper2112 10 months ago
Jeff Lynnes hair keeps on growing in this video.
apper2112 10 months ago
Nice ELO choice but they should have performed "Roll Over Beethoven"
richiebear1969 10 months ago
@richiebear1969 I agree...but, they had to promote the current album...which I love...and they would NEVER had been able to get the total orchestra into that studio! "Can't Get It Out of My Head" would eventualy go Top 10 and Gold...no complaints...
tew8197 4 months ago
My mom was deep into this band. I think they're pretty good too, or they were as the case may be.
k90751 10 months ago
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@k90751 i was balls deep in your mom how weired....
Damico07 10 months ago
@Damico07 Ur totally old.
k90751 10 months ago
ive seen all kindsa bands live. if this, i havent heard it yet, sounds bad its either because of miserable recording or lack of rehearsal. it doesnt matter if there are 2, 3 instruments or chamber quartet or symphony. and this sounds amazing to me, its dubbed from vhs fer chris' sake. eee lll ooo!!! its pretty damn good live recording; i bet it sounds like gold in stereo on tape.
shrivalup 10 months ago
Mike douglas was mr. nice guy the jazz musical interludes by joe harnell and frank hunter were approaching hard bop
spacepatrolman 11 months ago
Jeff is God.
USABG58 1 year ago
I doubt they would have hired the string section if they were just going to "pipe" the music in and the sound is not above the ability of the musicians and the instruments including the synth on the piano...
f3w3rds 1 year ago
elodevi Awesome! What a post. Thanks, it is history - living history that you were so kind to have shared.
forumghost1 1 year ago
only one good song on this one
Daisyno2 1 year ago
This is "poor boy (the greenwood)" from the album Eldorado. Followed by "Can't get it out of my head" from the same album.
malthuswasright 1 year ago
what song is this, by ELO?
telegalactica 1 year ago
My alltime favorite group.........what memories!!!
bigtimcny 1 year ago
OK This was as as LIVE as it could be - tape sync, plus live, whatever - do you have any idea how hard that is to perform? Jeff Lynne is a GENIUS and has left a legacy - he is like TODD RUNDGREN IN HIS DEDICATION to making the artist's vision a reality, PLUS THE PRODUCER'S own vision TO MAKE THE result as great as it can be. The Trav. Wilburys music and the George Harrison tribute are a a testament to Jeff's LOVE for his mates. God BLESS you Jeff Lynne!
jrm2fla 1 year ago 2
@jrm2fla If I had tried I couldn't have stated the facts any better!! Every word you wrote about Jeff, Todd, & Jeff's love for George!! JEFF LYNNE IS A GENIUS.....it is worth saying again!!
LuvsUlf5 1 year ago
This was at the time when ELO where breaking (as they say ) in the States.
tatunkha 1 year ago
I like ELO, but better than the Beatles? Their music was cheesy, one-dimensional and formulaic in comparison.
philumber 1 year ago
@philumber Yeah, yeah. True...and yet!...ELO had a magical, surreal, "that lost weekend you had as a teenager", "we're going on a strange" trip flavor that the Beatles didn't have. It's an apples/oranges comparison. And while the Beatles were solidly good...cake...ELO was the Roco frosting flurishes on top of the cakes. Going, outrageously, cheesily, and (I'd not say "one-dimensional", but) effect-drivenly out there! I love the Beatles, but they had conventions needed by older Baby Boomers.
USABG58 1 year ago
@USABG58 Um....what?
drafter28 11 months ago
@drafter28 Um...what what?
USABG58 11 months ago
@USABG58 Ummm.....what?
drafter28 11 months ago
Love love love ELO....no more to be said, although I will add that the problem with British people is that they live with too much nostalgia. I am British but cannot stand this harping on about how great so and so was, when in reality they were never that great to begin with, more a case of being in the right place at the right time,
chatterbox904 1 year ago
Sounds like a English drinking song.
donn409 1 year ago
Jeff Lynne's music is original...I dont know how certain people can say he went through the Beatles catalogue. I'm sure many or all ELO fans would take exception to that, I certainly do.
Jeff Lynne is an unrecognised genius.
chatterbox904 1 year ago
@chatterbox904 I believe ELO was superior to the Beatles. The reason they weren't as big was because the Beatles came along first and bands like ELO were considered Beatles ripoffs.
donn409 1 year ago 3
@donn409 it was a Merseyside versus Birmingham thing - Jeff Lynne's earlier band where once touted to be bigger than the Beatles check them out The Idle Race sheer brillance
tatunkha 1 year ago
@tatunkha To me, ELO was superior to the Beatles but the Babyboomers will never allow anyone to be bigger than the Beatles. It's sad really. Because it stiffles new talent which is why the music business is in the mess it's in now. They are willing to throw ELVIS under the bus but not their beloved Beatles.
donn409 1 year ago 2
@donn409 check out The Idle Race - they where the best. Jeff Lynne's previous act that just didn't get the full break.
tatunkha 1 year ago
@tatunkha I've been watching alot of IDLE RACE'S videos and they were superior to the Beatles. There was obviously a conspiracy to stop bands like them from overshadowing and outselling the Beatles. RINGO IS DEAD! LONG LIVE JEFF LYNNE!
donn409 1 year ago
Kelly Groucutt and Mike Edwards together very rare.
wezza60 1 year ago
I have a double album (cd)....they don't make em like this anymore!
yamyam48 1 year ago
this man is so sweet..he breaks my heart
mkwestcott1 1 year ago
Remember seeing these guys Live in 1974 for ^6.50
mark11601 1 year ago
@mark11601 Where - at the Utopia?
nadmansc 1 year ago
I was born in '74...this music is embryonic fluid...just like home.
Dantyankle 1 year ago
The more Clips of ELO with Mike Edwards the better! i wish someone filmed him with the exploding cello! :)
ELONut 1 year ago
Amazing really
filmerado 1 year ago
Part of the beauty is the lip syinching, i was 12 when this was on and I watched this show, i never missed Mike.
1macboo 1 year ago
MUST'VE BEEN A SCAREY GIG! This is how the 70s were. As a youth it pissed me off. Now I see the bands had no choice. he you need techs and expensive equipment to do live bands in a tv studio setting, and they didn't wanna be spending money on that 'cause they didn't think it would pay off in sponsorships for expensive -to-produce shows. There was almost NO real live TV music performances back then. It sucked. VERY few performances were real. - but sometimes they sang live to a track.whatever...
80sVideoLord 1 year ago
Is that Rick Price on the Bass? It does not look like Kelly.
flashfast2000 1 year ago
ELO could perform live, actually: check out their performance in Long Beach in 1974 or at Wembley in 1978. The reason they, and almost every other band in the 70's and 80's lipsynched, is because most talk- and musicshow producers refused to have pure live music on their shows. Top Of The Pops, The Mike Douglas Show, Soul Train, etc. used background tapes for ages, and only quit until recently, with the advent of proper musicvideos.
Proglove85 1 year ago
everybodys like dead from theis clip..life is bullshit..you suffer then your dead...this is hell...i dont wanna go anywhere after i wanna be dead...living sucks balls for most humans....
fucking elo its like they alwasy have canned pretaped music..i always feel they are faking it every clip i see...
jeff lynne is talented by gruesome looking....i now know why he always wears dark shades to hide those baggy eyes...
ChiroQuacker 1 year ago
@ChiroQuacker
I don't mind the lip synching. I can still soak up the groovy 70s vibe. And these songs are timeless.
ar4216 1 year ago 2
Fantastic, and superb are not words used to desacribe fucking old elo, unless you have no taste, which you simps obviously don't !
jsilence418 1 year ago
Too bad a damn lip sync, and hell yes they can be performed live I just seen another video with the same song performed by Lynn and ELO on the Midnight Special that same year! Bringing on those musicians on stage to do a lip sync is ridiculous. Just let the sit there and talk and play their song instead!
STEVEMOR909 1 year ago
@STEVEMOR909 Shut up moron. Grow a brain, then I will let you talk. Ed
BonelessSausage 1 year ago
You shut up Sausage head! I shall comment on what I want. It's a free country so stuff it!
STEVEMOR909 1 year ago
@STEVEMOR909 Thank you for those kind words, I shall cherish them forever.
BonelessSausage 1 year ago
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I usually do give kind words to most people Sausage man, but your previous post was very unkind indeed
"Shut up moron. Grow a brain, then I will let you talk. Ed"
Afterall all I was doing was making a comment about lip syncing, I just cant believe all the nasty trolls who send hate messages on here just because of someones opinion. Not to mention all the profanity, at least you didnt resort to that!
STEVEMOR909 1 year ago
Nothing like 'em.............harmonies and all those strings = awesome
judetalk 1 year ago
Oh yea it was done live, they weren't lazy like the ones you have making music today.
ALaudun 1 year ago
I think folks weren't so hung up on lip syncing back in 1974 as they are now.
Jeff and the band have been accused for years of pre recording and using it during live shows. It dind't stop me from becoming a huge fan. Damn, ELO is good!
driski90 1 year ago
ELO definitely had one distinct and very original sound, love it. ;)
Zippertheslipper 1 year ago 2
You're a guest on the Mike Douglas show and you get a WAFFLE IRON???
RJS3566 1 year ago
Darrin Mcgavin did a great rendition of "The Tell-Tale Heart" on Mike Douglas around '74 or '75. I can't find it anywhere. If you have access to that show and could post it, that would be awesome.
ArchStantonSavage 1 year ago
In response to jeff lynne being gay by dimpledick3inch, what you talking about, hes had more woman than you and i put together.If he was gay big deal hes the most gifted musician alive today, and by the way some of my best friends are gay.Jeff lynnes new soon to be released cd is supposed to be awsome, he recorded it in pink [just kidding]
billymcgeachy 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this. Great! I can really hear the Beatles influence with Out of my Head and then how it transmuted back to Lennon for his Solo stuff, and then of course Tom Petty and Dylan. It's all there. That Lennon-Dylan-Lynn-Petty vocal nasal smear is there.. at 6:23-6:28 in full effect. What a chameleon, or conduit..what have you, Jeff Lynn is super.
freqazoidiac 1 year ago
It was a simpler time then. The population would have suffered a greater shock for the music not to sound exactly like it did on the radio, rather than to learn your musical heroes sang to a track.
ErinC918 1 year ago
@dimpledick3inch he also has a sexual fetish for Big Bird, he has a gay lover dress up like him and pumps him in the ass.
Bag0fRats 1 year ago
@Bag0fRats does'nt Bag0fRats AND dimpledick3inch know there is a no'''fag shit' rule, EVERYWHERE !!!
PLEASE ABIDE BY THE RULES.... THANK YOU
mreloo 1 year ago
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@mreloo go drink a gallon of bleach you cum guzzling buttfucker
Bag0fRats 1 year ago
@Bag0fRats what would your Mother think if she heard her daughter talk that way, somebody needs to take her meds.
Than you'll have a better chance of doing the right thing..like going to church and praying and asking the Lord to help you with the sex demon that has invaded your spirit
mreloo 1 year ago
@mreloo beat it, priest.
Bag0fRats 1 year ago
@dimpledick3inch he came out long before that he was the master of ceremonies at the San Francisco gay pride parade several years ago.
Bag0fRats 1 year ago
THANK YOU!!!! I've never seen some of this! I am so pleased.
steadfastcoward 1 year ago
It's a great video elodevi
ALaudun 2 years ago
I haven't seen this one. It was done before Melvyn joined the band and Kelly was new to the band.
ALaudun 2 years ago
Did you really think songs like these could be performed live?? Even now it would be a struggle without a massive orchestra....criticise them if you want, but the songs were absolutely fantastic!
smallcyril 2 years ago 16
The music is superb and I undestand the casue or the problems i nthese days to play live . I am a fan and I can accept these circunstances.
Thanks for the comment.
elodevi 2 years ago 8
@elodevi It is not really fair for people to single out ELO. If you look at other Mike Douglas show videos, you will see that most are lip-synched rather than performed live. I am not saying this is good or bad, but it was how it was done in this case. The purpose of the show was clearly to advertise these bands so that they could reach a wider audience, so I am with you in that it doesn't really matter if it was played live or not. I am not a fan of the music, but that's just my taste.
VioletDeliriums 7 months ago 2
@smallcyril This is not LIVE.hes lipping it but they are great live i wish they did it live on this show......
MrGarbageman1965 1 year ago
@smallcyril
I don't think it's a case of whether they COULD or not. They pretty much could play live albeit a bit sparer. But touring like this, they're charging from town to town, doing radio interviews, appearances, tv appearances interviews etc. There would be no question of playing live - not practical. It's into the studio, mime to the song, move on.
trossachs2003 1 year ago
@smallcyril i was thinking the same thing this is a little to intrumental to be coming from such a small group.
nudeteawithwoodreaux 1 year ago
@smallcyril Well said!
kirbygene 1 year ago
@smallcyril ELO was incredible ! Can't get it out of my head is one of my favorite songs
Freyja1133 11 months ago
@smallcyril Yeh songs are are unbelievable I agree. This performance is definitely mimed or sung along with a backing track. There's other synth parts happening when no one is playing and check out Jeff's mouth to the vocal on 5:18/5:19. But I don't care...I love this guy.
adampower1973 11 months ago 2
most of the stuff on tv for years was lip synced because they did not want to pay for all the time, engineering and equipment to do it live, it was basically easier and cheaper
midlocal 2 years ago 2
They got a bunch of flak for playing to pre-recorded orchestra tracks...
curtisclark13 2 years ago
Hasn't ELO been chastised for lip-syncing in conerts? I remember hearing that but don't know the situation, if true.
seeburg220 2 years ago
Never
markev123 2 years ago 2
I have answered this one so often,I think It would be better if they did!.
They used introduction music in the late 70's that was pre-recorded.Once the show actually started,they utterly on there own.
these rumours were meant to try and discredit the "Dinosaurs".
They said the same thing about Led Zeppelin in 1979.The reason there was no bass player on stage when one was clearly heard was because he was playing a keyboard,and the Bass notes with his feet!.
Not a real concept in Punk world!
neohip 2 years ago 2
to bad they are lip-syncing... maybe too much music to play live... cool to see though...
saxnviolinz 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Who the devil is Mike Douglas? Wasn't he the dad on My three sons? Oh no wait a minute that was Steve Douglas. I never heard of this guy.
zapkvr 2 years ago
@zapkvr He was a huge star in the US in the 70s, biggest talk show host at the time.
ambermum 1 year ago
ELO there was some real talent!Not seen since! No what do you get Cold Play,Green Day the bar has lowerd way down!
smalltities 2 years ago
amazing hi-tech digital countdown!!!!!
DougM63 2 years ago
I wonder if Jeff and the boys got a waffle maker?
djbartlett 2 years ago
The groundbreaking mike douglas show came out of philadelphia. John and yoko co-hosted one week. In those days, rock acts wanted to appeal to the parents of the kids..this and ed sullivan show were a good outlet to reach them.
waldcast 2 years ago
Was this a local Cleveland tv show?
shelly10538 2 years ago
ELO,Queen,Foreigner and Boston were my favorite groups in the Late 1970's while everybody else was into Kiss,Fleetwood Mac,Aerosmith,and the Eagles.
Ohio717 2 years ago
man that studio looks 70's...
eduardocarr1 2 years ago
Maybe because it's 1974.
kazzz15 2 years ago
that's right kazzz15 ;)
eduardocarr1 2 years ago
He loved Lennon, like Waters too! Nuthin wrong there. Can't wait to see John some day, but not pushing it!!
peaceonearth777 2 years ago
@peaceonearth777 good luck
cathode1990 1 year ago
very 70'sh.
pulrivera70 2 years ago
Nice footage...I always hate to see the lipsyncing and faking, though...but I know a lot of shows did that. And ELO's music was so difficult to reproduce on stage, they resorted to tape for some songs while in concert. Jeff, he's such a perfectionist, lol. //dan
dvnobles 3 years ago
ELO WAS WAY TOO COOL for the Mike Douglas show!
eurobaby460 3 years ago 4
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driverblue1 3 years ago
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torchkit 3 years ago
Sweet maid Marian don't you do me no wrong! Brilliant!
brugglesby 3 years ago 3
Groucutt joined the band late in 1974.
lawrev 3 years ago 2
They even say that Michael de Albuquerque
didn´t play bass on Eldorado album although
he´s there in the band portrait.
Jeff Lynne played on that also bass.
But that´s not for sure.
FinnMove 3 years ago
Is that Kelly G? He didn't join til next year!!!
trap0001 3 years ago
I think that it was one of Kelly's first appearances with the band Trap!
johnto 3 years ago
Richard Pryor AND ELO on the same program?!?! Only in the 70's...
XanaduPreservation 3 years ago 11
also one of the best producers ever
theeasybeats 3 years ago
Wow!This is incredible.Thanks for sharing
Jackabeanie 3 years ago 2
OMG!they are promoting Poor Boy as well as Can't Get it Out of my Head!.I always thought PB wa a lost gem that should have been a single!.I have found out recently that it was not as neglected as I had once believed, which is neat,and a huge suprise, as I thought(and still do)think that even Jeff was not always the best judge of his talent!.
neohip 3 years ago
It was the B side for Telephone Line - although commercially they were 3-4 years off their peak, I still think Eldorado was their creative peak and these two tracks are two of the best - fantastic melodies and string arrangements!
M400fan 2 years ago 4
I don't want to argue,because in-part I concur.
I love Eldorado,but music (sadly) changed rapidly after that.
No more serious big baroque rock music from anyone after 1974.
Apart from Meatloaf.And Jeff Wayne.
However,I think ELO's crowning glory was Time.from 1981.
No more Kings,Abbots and Queens,or even Robert Browning,but computers and loss of identity and humanity.
I listened to it again recently,and was actually shocked at how contemporary it still sounds!.
neohip 2 years ago
I too don't want to argue, because in part I concur! But what about Rick Wakeman's Myths and Legends? Or Queen's output until 1977? Or Yes or Genesis albums? I think it was punk that killed it in '77 (apart from the exceptions you mention). Interestingly, I've recently been watching some of the videos here from Time, esp the one where the footage is from Metropolis - Prologue/Twilight - check it out! I agree it was their "swan song" - and WAY ahead of its, er, "time"! Sorry, no pun intended!
M400fan 2 years ago
"The Great Punk Debate".
Punk killed Rock music?.
by 1977,the game was up,and most of the 60's generation were in sad decline.
I am (just) old enough to remember that punk came along and "Forever Spoilt Music" and made it "Grotesque".I believed all that at the time, and for years afterwards,but I've long realised that they (or at least the more intelligent exponents),were actually trying to put the excitement back into Rock.
Sadly,they failed,but managed to make some good Music nonetheless.
neohip 2 years ago
punk rock SAVED rock and roll better. Pistols, Clash, NY Dolls, Damned, Ramones ARE rock and roll. end of discussion.
Waldenpunk 2 years ago
Apparently you haven't heard of this rock band called Queen ;) are you nuts? ROLFMBO
Besides ELO is a worldwide sensation... and still is well known.
mrFalconlem 2 years ago
I agree ! Their original idea was lost.
But they made a great album A New World record. You must know that ELO was tose times most popular in USA.
I understand your view very well.
FinnMove 2 years ago 2
As I yours.
l checked your profile and got lost in the clips! Rasputin and ELO!
I love your tastes FinnMove!.
neohip 2 years ago
Funny to think at the time they were appearing on high profile TV shows in the US at the same time as they were outnumbering their audiences back in the UK lol, no wonder Jeff refused to tour there again until 1976, At least the Americans knew this was something special whilst we where listening to crap on the radio here in the UK
ELONut 3 years ago
What? You mean the Bay City Rollers were crap then? lol
ultrakool 3 years ago
no comment! :)
ELONut 3 years ago
How on earth has this GREAT MAN managed to keep producing such inspirational music over a 30 odd year span??? I think he has had some extraterrestrial help.I dont think Jeff is of this Earth!!
talos124 3 years ago 10
@talos124 - I like your comment, but bear in mind, Lynne joined the Idle Race in 1966, so make that a 40 odd year span!
drsloan 1 year ago
@talos124 I think the ELO space craft is a hint to the origins of Jeff Lynne. LOL.
Pagweb 1 year ago
@talos124 LOLvery true!
RangRing68 1 year ago
@talos124 He just went through the Beatles catalogue.
rotcafarg 1 year ago
@talos124 he probably didn't drop acid perhaps. do you know the Idle Race. Jeff's first band of his own.sheer brilliant pschedelia without the acid
tatunkha 1 year ago
what a treat this was
lilm8t 3 years ago 4
God, as guests of the show, I sure hope Jeff Lynne and the boys got the waffle baker from True Value Hardware Stores! I'm pretty sure they did, because I think that was the source of at least one of the special effects on their "Out of The Blue" album a few years later. Anyway, they wouldn't have achieved the greatness they richly deserve without that waffle baker!
paragonpie 3 years ago
Great quality well done!
shleml 3 years ago