ELO - Hello My Old Friend

This came from ELO - Afterglow. As I recall, it was released in America only, and I never see anyone listing it in their discography lists. It's one of my Favorite songs they did and I hope you all like it. Please forgive the "video" part. I've never made a video and wouldn't know what to add. I wanted to do a black page, but found this pic with a minimum of searching and liked it. I hope you all like the song and leave a comment.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• classical
• electronic
• rock
• electric
• light
• orchestra
• rare
• track

[70sDreamer]

Thanks for posting this one! Even if I'm a big ELO fan, I didn't know this song at all... It's great!

[QueenGoofy]

You're very welcome 70sDreamer. I'm still happy to have found and posted this great song. It needed sharing with the world wide web for sure. If you'd like to hear the audio done 10 times better than mine, go to rayflute's post for this song. Not only is the audio better, it's a video showing Birmingham. The city Jeff is singing about.

[endrizo]

this is a rarely and specially magical sounding tune by the great jeff the other one is mandalay.two obscure jewels

thanks and a hug my friend.

[QueenGoofy]

You're more than welcome, and thanks for posting. I think Mandalay is great as well. :D

[andrewelo]

I think this is a great piece of music. I seem to remember reading that, inspired by Penny Lane & Strawberry Fields, Jeff wanted to do his own song about his childhood environment and came up with this.

[QueenGoofy]

I think it's a haunting tune, and a great one as well.

[FinnMove]

A criminally underrated song.

Maybe the best in the 1980´s.

[nollypra]

You think this sounds like the beatles. Bollocks!!

[salford1945]

beatles all over still love it

[JuanOmegaIota]

They have never disappointed.

[bunchie1966]

I can definitely hear the Lennon influence. ELO and the Beatles are my two favourite bands.

[pantaruja]

I'didn't know it. The first movement is pure ELO.

Maybe so large... but is ELO.

GOOD GOOD... and MORE.

Good Bye ELOFANS

[cobbity]

yes its off afterglow mandalay also on it i have it great isn`t it

[jcamontflor]

la musica de ELO es envolvente,si nada que sobre salga,la virtuosidad no es lo suyo,pero evidentemente creando melodias jeff es único,la época de "TIME" recuerdo,maravilloso el lp,desde el principio hasta el final,pero la que más me dió en el corazón fué ELDORADO. sin duda un grandioso trabajo. muy buenos arreglos y unas melodias que me acompañarán por el resto de mi vida.

[jcamontflor]

evidentemente que eran diferentes,¿sabes unoa de las bandas similar que descubrí cual fué? pues fueron los moody blues en long distance boyager. una de las badsa bandas de esa epoca que compartí y son parte de mi vida.

[miguelonzky]

CASI CASI TE CREO! pero los beatles no tocaron tanto tiempo instrumentos como lo ha hacho ELO,

ELO ES ELO. super diferente, especiales, fuera de tiempo, adelantandose a su era con el album Time que esta tambien buenisimo!! sigo escuchando ELO desde finales de los 70s. Saludos

[trvkent]

Amazing! I've never come across this one before - how on earth have I missed this? One of the better Jeff Lynne songs without a doubt... great stuff!

[Sportzzmadz]

Wow - never heard this before from an ELO fan, just shows what he said, carry on from the beatles!