Can't Get It Out of My Head
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| Single by Electric Light Orchestra | ||||
| from the album Eldorado | ||||
| B-side | "Illusions in G Major" | |||
| Released | June 1974 (UK) November 1974 (US) |
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| Format | 7" | |||
| Recorded | 1974 De Lane Lea Studios | |||
| Genre | Symphonic rock | |||
| Length | 4:23 (LP length) 3.07 (single edit) |
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| Label | Warner Bros. Records & United Artists Records | |||
| Writer(s) | Jeff Lynne | |||
| Producer | Jeff Lynne | |||
| Electric Light Orchestra singles chronology | ||||
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Can't Get It Out of My Head is a song by Electric Light Orchestra.
First released on the band's fourth album, Eldorado, in July 1974, the song is the second track on the album and follows "Eldorado Overture." The song was released in November of that same year as a single.
The song became the band's first top ten single in the United States, reaching #9, and helped boost public awareness of the band in America; however, back in the UK the single and LP failed to chart. In 1978 the song was included on a four-track ELO EP (UK release) reaching #34 on the UK charts. The song has appeared on many ELO compilation albums.
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[edit] Chart positions
| Chart (1974) | Peak Position |
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| Australian ARIA Singles Chart | 59 |
| Dutch Top 40 | 19 |
| French SNEP Singles Chart | 5 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 9 |
| U.S. Cash Box Top 100 Singles | 14 |
| U.S. Record World Singles | 23 |
[edit] Other appearances
- Telekinesis (band) covered this song on the 2010 American Laundromat Records release, Sing Me to Sleep - Indie Lullabies.
- The song was recently covered by the hard rock supergroup Velvet Revolver on their 2007 album Libertad.
- In 2006, the popular Fox teenage drama, The OC, featured a special cover version of the song in an episode, as well as commissioning the indie artist John Paul White to cover the track for Music From The OC: Mix 6 "Covering Our Tracks".
- A live cover version by Fountains of Wayne appeared as a b-side on their 1997 single "Sink to the Bottom" and later on their 2005 album Out Of State Plates.
- In 2006 Jonathan Kossin covered the song.
- In the '70s, a "Sacred Mushroom Edition" cut of Kenneth Anger's experimental film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome circulated that used the ELO song as it's score instead of the original Glagolitic Mass by Czech composer Leoš Janáček
[edit] External links
- In-depth Song Analysis at the Jeff Lynne Song Database (jefflynnesongs.com)
[edit] References
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