Can't Get It Out of My Head

10 tracks
Side one "Eldorado Overture" "Can't Get It Out of My Head" "Boy Blue" "Laredo Tornado" "Poor Boy (The Greenwood)" Side two "Mister Kingdom" "Nobody's Child" "Illusions in G Major" "Eldorado" "Eldorado Finale"

"Can't Get It Out of My Head" is a song by Electric Light Orchestra (also known as ELO).

First released on the band's fourth album, Eldorado, in September 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 number 9,^[3] 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 number 34 on the UK charts. The song has appeared on many ELO compilation albums.

Lyrical error

For over 40 years now, many lyric publications still show the line in the 1st verse erroneously as "Walking on a wave's chicane", though the correct lyrics are "Walking on a wave she came". On the YouTube video at this link , Jeff clearly sings "Walking on a wave she came", and you can see that his lips come together to form the "M" in "came" rather than stay apart as you would say the "N" in "chicane", and you also plainly hear that he says "wave" and not "wave'S" --- there is no "S" sound in "wave" as he says it. A "chicane" has nothing to do with waves; it's roadway feature where traffic engineers place a lot of curves in a street or racetrack to slow traffic down as evidenced by its Wikipedia entry and at the Merriam-Webster dictionary. This isn't the first time ELO had a misprint that affected them greatly, as their first album was mistakenly titled "No Answer" due to an error upon release.

Chart positions

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1975)	Peak Position
Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart^[4]	59
Dutch GfK chart^[5]	20
French Singles Chart	5
U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[3]	9
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 Singles	14
U.S. Record World Singles^[6]	23
U.S. Radio & Records (R&R)^[7]^[8]	27

Year-end charts

Chart (1975)	Peak Position
U.S. Billboard^[9]	81

Jeff Lynne version

"Can't Get It Out of My Head"

Song by Electric Light Orchestra from the album Mr. Blue Sky: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra

Released

8 October 2012 (UK)
9 October 2012 (US)

Recorded

2001–2012 Bungalow Palace

Length

4:35

Jeff Lynne

Jeff Lynne

Mr. Blue Sky: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra track listing

12 tracks
"Mr. Blue Sky" "Evil Woman" "Strange Magic" "Don't Bring Me Down" "Turn to Stone" "Showdown" "Telephone Line" "Livin' Thing" "Do Ya" "Can't Get It Out of My Head" "10538 Overture" "Point of No Return"

Jeff Lynne re-recorded the song in his own home studio. It was released in a compilation album with other re-recorded ELO songs, under the ELO name.^[10]

Other appearances

Telekinesis covered this song on the 2010 American Laundromat Records release, Sing Me to Sleep - Indie Lullabies.
The song was 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 1970s, a "Sacred Mushroom Edition" cut of Kenneth Anger's experimental film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome circulated that used the ELO song as its score instead of the original Glagolitic Mass by Czech composer Leoš Janáček
Progressive rock band Transatlantic covered this song on their 2014 album Kaleidoscope, on disc 2 of the special edition.
Hard rock band Silent Rage covered this song on their 1989 album, "Don't Touch Me There", but changed a few lyrics and renamed it to "Can't Get Her Out Of My Head".

External links

In-depth Song Analysis at the Jeff Lynne Song Database (jefflynnesongs.com)
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

References

1 2 http://www.jefflynnesongs.com/cgioomh/
↑ Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic "This compilation of familiar soft rock includes such notables as ... "Can't Get It Out of My Head" by Electric Light Orchestra."
1 2 "Electric Light Orchestra - Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
↑ Hung, Steffen. "Discografie Electric Light Orchestra". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
↑ Hawtin, Steve. "Song artist 171 - Electric Light Orchestra". Tsort.info. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
↑ ELO
↑ Charts!
↑ http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1975.htm
↑ "Releases : elo - Mr. Blue Sky - The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra". Elo.biz. 5 October 2012. Retrieved 28 February 2013.

Electric Light Orchestra singles discography

1970s

1972	"10538 Overture" / "First Movement (Jumping Biz)" "Mr. Radio" (withdrawn)

1973	"Roll Over Beethoven" / "Queen of the Hours" "Showdown" / "In Old England Town (Instrumental)"

1974	"Ma-Ma-Ma Belle" / "Daybreaker" (US) "Ma-Ma-Ma Belle" / "Oh No Not Susan" (UK) "Can't Get It Out of My Head" / "Illusions in G Major"

1975	"Boy Blue" / "Eldorado" "Evil Woman" / "10538 Overture (live)"

1976	"Strange Magic" / "New World Rising" (US) "Nightrider" / "Daybreaker (live)" "Strange Magic" / "Showdown (live)" (UK) "Livin' Thing" / "Ma-Ma-Ma Belle" (US) "Livin' Thing" / "Fire On High" (UK)

1977	"Rockaria!" / "Poker" "Do Ya" / "Nightrider" "Telephone Line" / "Poor Boy (The Greenwood)" (US) "Telephone Line" / "Poor Boy (The Greenwood)" and "King of the Universe" (UK) "Turn to Stone" / "Mister Kingdom"

1978	"Mr. Blue Sky" / "One Summer Dream" "Sweet Talkin' Woman" / "Fire On High" (US) "Wild West Hero / "Eldorado" "Sweet Talkin' Woman" / "Bluebird is Dead" (UK) "It's Over" / "The Whale" The ELO EP

1979	"Shine a Little Love" / "Jungle" "The Diary of Horace Wimp" / "Down Home Town" "Don't Bring Me Down" / "Dreaming of 4000" "Confusion"/"Last Train to London" (UK) "Confusion" / "Poker" (US) "Last Train to London" / "Down Home Town" (US)

1980s

1980	"I'm Alive" / "Drum Dreams" "Xanadu" (duet with Olivia Newton-John) / "Fool Country" (Olivia Newton-John) (UK) "Xanadu" (with Olivia Newton-John) / "Whenever You're Away from Me" (Olivia Newton-John) (US) "All Over the World" / "Midnight Blue" (UK) "All Over the World" / "Drum Dreams" (US) "Don't Walk Away" / "Across the Border"

1981	"Hold On Tight" / "When Time Stood Still" "Twilight" / "Julie Don't Live Here"

1982	"Here Is the News"/"Ticket to the Moon" "Rain Is Falling" / "Another Heart Breaks" "The Way Life's Meant to Be" / "Wishing"

1983	"Rock 'n' Roll Is King" / "After All" "Secret Messages" / "Buildings Have Eyes" "Four Little Diamonds" / "Letter from Spain" "Stranger" / "Train of Gold"

1986	"Calling America" / "Caught in a Trap" "So Serious" / "Endless Lies" (US) "So Serious" / "A Matter of Fact" (UK) "Getting to the Point" / "Secret Lives"

1990s

1990	"Destination Unknown" (promo)

2000s

2001	"Alright" / "Love Changes All" / "Do Ya" (Unedited Alternative Mix) "Moment in Paradise" / "Alright" (PBS 2001 Version) / "Mr. Blue Sky" (PBS 2001 Version) / "Livin' Thing" (PBS 2001 Version)

2006	"Surrender"

2007	"Latitude 88 North"

2010s

2015	"When I Was a Boy"

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