Electric Light Orchestra - From the Sun to the World (Boogie No. 1)

[TheHernanPatricio]

CRAZY ! LOCA FANTASIA MUSICAL !!! WOW!! PEDAZO DE BESTIA MUSICAL !!

[probrojeffro]

ELO, Yes, ELP, and all the other three letter bands. Great stuff. Great time.

[faketeeth6]

@probrojeffro hey hey! these are the bands I have been getting into lately :D

[bond00777777]

space saga !

[zeldafreak701]

Truly the best band of all time. And I'm 20!

[crobilly19]

this ain't your daddys beatles...this progressive rock.. just like ELP or Rush.. or Yes...it is so RAW!!!!!!.. i gonna break some shit!!!!!!

[ttc817]

This song is incredible. The band's early sound was unreal.

[tevevid]

The best ELO song ever, in my opion. Only their two first records are really good with their second album the best IMO, after that they became rather mainstream.

[Imptheshrimp]

@tevevid It wasn't bad mainstream though. Just poppier melodies. I'd have to say that Out of the Blue is a better record then ELO II even though I love ELO II much more. There's something so haunting and surreal about more frayed and intricate prog, especially when you get that combination of classical, blues and folk like this track.

[dibenj]

THANK YOU for the lyrics! So good to be able to follow them with the music.

[tatunkha]

You just can't beat great music. Thanks Jeff & thanks for the upload

[TheFryderyk1]

Jeff is always the best

[doncool69]

Have loved this tune since the first time I ever heard it as a teenager back in the mid 80's. Needless to say, banging this out on the stereo at that time wasn't exactly fashionable. Just had to do it though.

Still doing it now, still loving it!!

[Syzygy60]

I own at least 10 ELO albums,I know good music

[Syzygy60]

I have this album

[tigranvartanovitch]

I remember back in 1972 hearing a radio interview with Jeff Lynne, and he was asked if Roy Wood had played on any of the tracks. He said that there were two tracks laid down at the time, and Roy had "just played bass on them". When ELO2 came out the bass was credited to the remarkable Michael de Albuquerque, so I had to guess which tracks Roy had played on. I correctly guessed boogies 1 & 2. It is clear that Bill Hunt plays piano and horn on this one, so Roy must have played on this too.

[darkskidz]

First heard this today. A lot of musical quality for sure, but what are these lyrics?! :p

[grolum]

great composition by a great band that did not got the honer they deserved.

i would say timeless, but the song is written to take as long as it takes sunlight to reach Earth.

so the light that leaves the Sun with the first note arrives on Earth at the end of the last note.

i loved it from the first time i heard it

[MetaRoland]

my favorite ELO song. Jeff was such a good producer. When I listen to old ELO on my cars new sound system I'm just blown away at what an amazing job he did handling so many different layers.

[HazMatCFO]

Excellent song.

[FinnMove]

I don´t think Bill Hunt is playing in that slow middle- section. It is moog nearly with 100 %. And that is the only minus in the whole ELO 2 album. I think Jeff should have included real woodwind and brass players. Brilliant music !

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

@FinnMove

Here's what Rob Caiger says about the Boogies:

"I think Bill [Hunt] is in there [on the ELO 2 Boogies] somewhere on piano and there's certainly more French horn played on the session, but not included on the final mix. ...The bass parts are all Roy. Colin [Walker] is on the Boogies, From The Sun To The World especially, which has a beautiful orchestral intro featuring the string section and Roy on cello, which sadly wasn't included in the final mix."

[thomasblais]

Horrificly under-rated song from ELO's early days. Listening now, you realize what risks they were taking with their music and it comes off as sheer genius. Amazing stuff!

[tatunkha]

@thomasblais Hello :) go check out Jeff's first band The Idle Race. I think you might love them too.cheers

[Thepennies]

Jeff Lynne is the Mozart of this century! When i was a kid, I didn't really like the early records but now I love them just as much as the later. Truly timeless music!

[tatunkha]

@Thepennies Hello :) go check out Jeff's first band The Idle Race. I think you might love them too.cheers

[jamagik63]

Wspaniały utwór ! Czekam na kolejne w tym starym dobrym stylu Jeff !

[divisioneight]

I heard before in an written statement from Jeff Lynne that he always composed the music and added lyrics afterward. Perhaps in his earlier writing days, he attached some poignant meaning to the words, but in general, he was a musician first, activist far second.

[MrBrantif]

This was always my favorite song from ELO's early days, but I never could understand the words. Now that I know what Jeff Lynne is singing,

could someone please tell me just exactly what in the hell this song is about?

[FinnMove]

The same thing is about In Old England Town. The other "boogie".

I think the only answer is that the lyrics in the early days of ELO were unommonly poetic and conceptual. They are not to be explained. Believe Me or not. But I guess the lyrics are about the Earth in threat to collapse. Like the work title of the album ELO 2 was "The Lost Planet".

[britfrenir]

Thank you for posting this and the lyrics. I did not know what all of the words were.

[tonofsoil]

A brilliant track! Bought the album in 1973 and saw them live at The Greyhound,Croydon around time of Roll over Beethoven being a hit. Very good live band. Year later at the fairfield halls at time of on the third day again very good live. Hugh Mc Dowell and Mik Kaminski had joined then.I agree the fusion of the sounds was ahead of the pack and perhaps underated

[groundhog713]

This is a great track, with Bill Hunt playing French Horn and trumpet on the track as well. It's a shotgun marriage of baroque classical and boogie-woogie rock and roll.....

[jamagik63]

baroque ? maybe Grieg ?

[groundhog713]

That's what it sounds like to me...LOL

[britfrenir]

So Bill Hunt was still in the group by this time . I did not see him listed in the album. Maybe he left by the time the album came out. Thank you for saying who plays it.

[borgduck]

WTF??? Peter Purves from the Daleks Master Plan???!

[punditpete]

These songs grow and grow on you as you get older. When I bought the ELO2 album it was 1980 and I was listening to Discovery and Out Of The Blue etc. I hated this song and the album it came from. Now I love the early stuff.

[trossachs2003]

Me too. Love the second album. Esp Kuiama...its, what...9 minutes of prog rock bliss. And a violin solo! wow.

[runspyder]

Very cool montage, bravo and thanks for sharing!

[britfrenir]

I did not know all of the words to this song until now. There were not test tube babies then, but there were in late 70's though. I could not even tell what he was saying on there.

[TheHebrewHammer85]

thanks for the up!

[FinnMove]

This is one of my great favourites of ELO

when I came to know the band in late 1970´s.

It was originally called Jeff´s boogie no 1.

It was played in concert in 1972 in different

version. Someone has it ?

[cyberdale]

Nicely done--this was the first ELO LP I bought, mainly for "Roll Over Beethoven" but this track soon became a favorite as well. Very nice that all these years later Roy Wood got credit for his work on this album.

[srprazak]

Actually it was Roy who insisted, initially at least, that he NOT get credit to help the new Lynne-led ELO make a clean break from the older version of the band.

[manekishironeko]

thank you veryvery much

this picture find 22th august,its my birthday

you make me happy!!!

[dyrupita]

wonderful song, does anyone know where could I find the chords? Gracias!

[loparto]

Magic and cosmic theme. I'm very surprised about somebody upload it ! I'm sure you love "Momma" too !