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Jeff Lynne: Long Wave

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Label: Frontiers Records
Released: 2012.10.05
Time:
 27:19
Category: Roc'n'Roll
Producer(s): Jeff Lynne
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.elo.biz
Appears with: ELO, Traveling Wilburys
Purchase date: 2014
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] She (Charles Aznavour, Herbert Kretzmer) - 2:41
[2] If I Loved You (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein) - 2:21
[3] So Sad (to Watch Good Love Go Bad) (Don Everly) - 2:33
[4] Mercy Mercy (Don Covay, Ronald Dean Miller) - 2:53
[5] Running Scared (Roy Orbison, Joe Melson) - 2:10
[6] Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 2:20
[7] Smile (Charlie Chaplin, John Turner, Geoffrey Parsons) - 2:32
[8] At Last (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) - 2:34
[9] Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster) - 2:30
[10] Let It Rock (Chuck Berry) - 1:52
[11] Beyond the Sea [bonus track] (Jack Lawrence, Charles Trénet) - 2:53

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Jeff Lynne - Bass, Drums, Electric & Rhythm Guitar, Keyboards, Vibraphone, Vocals, Background Vocals, Liner Notes, Mixing, Piano, Producer

Marc Mann - Strings

Steve Jay - Engineer, Mixing, Shaker, Tambourine
Martyn Atkins - Photography
Dan Gerbarg - Mastering
Howie Weinberg - Mastering
Ryan Corey - Art Direction, Design, Illustrations
Alton Douglas - Photo Courtesy
David Wild - Liner Notes

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The ELO man covers a selection of the songs that inspired him.

A mere 22 years after his last solo album, 1990’s Armchair Theatre, the man described by The Washington Times as “the fourth greatest record producer in history” returns with two. One, Mr. Blue Sky, features ELO classics. The other is this collection: a love-letter to the songs Jeff Lynne heard on his dad’s radio, songs which inspired him while growing up in Birmingham.

Having famously worked with Dylan, Harrison, Orbison and Ringo, the pop polymath now plays everything himself, a one-man band moving across a dewy sound-bed of nostalgia.

A subjective labour of love akin to Bowie’s Pin-Ups or Ferry’s These Foolish Things, which also carries elements of stripped-down self-exposure (like Johnny Cash’s American Recordings or Tom Jones’ Spirit in the Room), it’s infused with warm melancholy. If it never crackles with startling candour, you sense that’s because he wants to pay simple homage to the tunes that formed him, rather than whip out his youthful diaries.

Many selections are "pre-rock" 1950s standards, with a few fairly well-known but not over-familiar 60s nuggets also summoned. Perhaps surprisingly, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, and Love Is a Many Splendored Thing work wonderfully well. Lynne has never been an ostentatious singer but knows how to arrange to perfection, even in this understated mode. The echoing shadows of Richard Hawley’s music come to mind.

We could all probably live without another version of Charlie Chaplin’s cheesy Smile, but he does make it chug along effectively. Don’t expect ELO-style baroque-and-rococo flourishes: for the most part Long Wave ticks with paced, poignant precision. There’s further subdued romance in the readings of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s If I Loved You and the evergreen She, once crooned by Charles Aznavour.

A louche, atypically throwaway take on Bobby Darin’s Beyond the Sea is a damp squib, and a couple of trad blues-rockers only remind the listener of ELO’s Roll Over Beethoven. But Lynne’s elegiac streak emerges again on Etta James’ At Last and The Big O’s Running Scared.

Lynne doesn’t try to break any moulds here, but respectfully doffs a cap at those that shaped him.

Chris Roberts, 2012
BBC Review



When Jeff Lynne was growing up, he listened to music on longwave radio, soaking up all the sounds coming through the big radio in the living room. His 2012 tribute to these days, appropriately called Long Wave, is a far-reaching salute to the glory days of pop in the years before the Beatles. It's too easy to peg this as a standards album, a designation that isn't quite accurate. Lynne may cover many show tunes along with '50s favorites of big-band vocalists but he spends nearly as much time with rock & roll, and not just the operatic pop of his fellow Traveling Wilbury Roy Orbison, either. He cranks through Chuck Berry's "Let It Rock," slides into the silken harmonies of the Everly Brothers on "So Sad," and grooves through Don Covay's "Mercy, Mercy." These are the cuts that stick the closest to the original hit recordings. When Lynne tackles Rodgers & Hammerstein ("If I Loved You"), Rodgers & Hart ("Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"), Fain & Webster ("Love Is a Many Splendored Thing"), and Chaplin ("Smile"), he breaks the song down to its melodic basics then builds up candied, layered arrangements that are distinctly his own, suggesting the gorgeous cascades of sound that were the signature of prime ELO. Indeed, when these sweet reinterpretations are combined with the straight-ahead rockers, Long Wave adds up to a blueprint in reverse for Lynne; by going to back to his beginnings, he winds up figuring out why he went in the direction he did.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



Every avowed Beatles fan rues and revels in the day when he or she turns 64, and Jeff Lynne is no different. The master wall-of-sounder turned 64 this year and released a double album (one of ELO hits and one of covers). He raises the question: Do we still need him? Will we still feed him?

Of course we need you, Mr. Lynne. Who else can deliver a line like “you took my body and played to win” with such boyish charm? Rod Stewart? As the song goes: “Ha, ha.” “Evil Woman” is one of 11 beloved ELO songs that Lynne re-recorded in his studio in Los Angeles for Mr. Blue Sky – The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra. Given recording limitations of the 70s and 80s, Lynne thought the songs needed some retouching. So he went back and did all the instrumental and vocal parts himself. It will be exactly like when Beyonce re-records the Destiny’s Child catalogue due to certain limitations, such as all of the voices that are not hers.

Whatever digital rosin Lynne is using these days seems to be working. “Strange Magic”, “Don’t Bring Me Down”, and “Do Ya” are just a few tracks that sound faster and fresher. But the real treat on the album is the previously unreleased, “Point Of No Return”. Its rollicking guitar lick and “ball-and-chain” motif could have easily been on Tom Petty’s Full Moon Fever, which Lynne helped write, produce, and accompany twenty years ago.

Although original material would have been welcome, Long Wave proves that every song can be an ELO song if it really tries hard enough. Even the deeply regal “At Last” sounds like it could be the B-side to “Mr. Blue Sky”. Lynne shed some electric light on artists that inspired him as a radio-head in Manchester, England, such as the Everly Brothers and Don Covay. Surprising pre-rock songs choices include “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” and “Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing.” “She” has a “Strawberry Fields Forever” softness, while “Running Scared” features Lynne doing an entertainingly accurate impression of the late, great Roy Orbison. 40-years into his rich musical career, it’s perfectly fine for Lynne to be taking stock — just as long as he doesn’t stop.

Sarah H. Grant - October 29, 2012
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Jeff Lynne s timeless new album Long Wave is a stirring, heartfelt and vivid tribute to some of the very songs that first taught this legendary singer-songwriter the awesome power music can have in our lives. The radiant songs revisited here helped turn on an electric light in young Jeff Lynne that continues to burn as brightly today as it ever has. Jeff Lynne somehow makes these pre-rock standards along with a few of his favorite gems from the Sixties his own with these loving reinterpretations. The outcome is an inspired love letter to music itself and an exquisite reflection of the way songs can grace and change our lives.

Amazon.com



Long Wave is the second solo album recorded by Jeff Lynne. released on 8 October (UK) and 9 October 2012 (US). The album contains cover versions of songs that influenced Lynne's songwriting whilst growing up and residing in Birmingham, it was recorded between 2010 and 2012. The album debuted at number 7 on the UK Albums Chart and at number 1 on the UK Top 40 Independent Albums Chart, then also at number 133 on the US Billboard 200 albums chart, at number 33 on the Billboard Top Independent Albums chart and at number 48 on the Billboard Top Rock Albums chart. "At Last" is scheduled to be the first UK and "Mercy Mercy" the first US single issued from the album.

Lynne said of the album:

"I call this new album Long Wave because all of the songs I sing on it are the ones heard on long wave radio when I was a kid growing up in Birmingham, UK. These songs take me back to that feeling of freedom in those days and summon up the feeling of first hearing those powerful waves of music coming in on my old crystal set. My dad also had the radio on all the time, so some of these songs have been stuck in my head for 50 years. You can only imagine how great it felt to finally get them out of my head after all these years."

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