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Showdown (Electric Light Orchestra song)

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A planned concept album entitled "The Lost Planet" was quietly abandoned and sessions for the second LP proper began May 1972. Two new Jeff Lynne songs, "From the Sun to the World" and "In Old England Town" were the first to be recorded and included Roy Wood on bass guitar and cello, but in little
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rated the song highly and said ""Showdown' I thought was a great record and I was expecting it to be #1 but I don’t think UA got their fingers out and pushed it. And it’s a nice group – I call them 'Son of Beatles' – although they’re doing things we never did, obviously."
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Lynne said "I made the riff up and I was thrilled with it. I knew it was going to be a hit even after I had just done a few notes of it. When we cut it the engineer said, ‘This is a classic.’ I was thrilled to bits."
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The B-side, "In Old England Town", is an edited instrumental version of "In Old England Town (Boogie No. 2)" by Lynne. Recorded in 1972, this was the opening track of the band's second LP
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of T. Rex was at the session where the song was recorded and played on several of the band's tracks at that time, but did not play on "Showdown" itself. Instead,
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said the song "can almost be termed 'classical blues' and sheds a new light on the group that most folks will immediately be attracted to."
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in 1972; that is the only live footage of the original ELO known to exist. These songs were released on a 2006 DVD called
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Lynne re-recorded the song in his own home studio in 2012. It was released on the compilation album
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more than a month, the co-founder of the ELO concept left the group. —Rob Caiger, 28 March 2006,
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in a US radio interview. Lennon described the song as "a beautiful combination” of
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would feature the song on the album in both countries for the first time.
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The song was included in ELO's first 1972 tour playlist, simply titled
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label. The song was released as a single and reached No 12 in the
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In 2022 Lynne listed it as one of his nine favorite ELO songs.
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intro of the edited version was later sampled and included on
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along with other re-recorded ELO songs, under the ELO name.
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called it "a Jeff Lynne original that's bound to click on
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contributor Ryan Reed rated it as ELO's 6th best song.
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The Essential Electric Light Orchestra (2 CD Edition)
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at the Jeff Lynne Song Database (jefflynnesongs.com)
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Index


Single
Electric Light Orchestra
On the Third Day
B-side
instrumental
AIR
single edit
Label
Harvest
United Artists
Songwriter(s)
Jeff Lynne
Producer(s)
Electric Light Orchestra
Roll Over Beethoven
Ma-Ma-Ma Belle
"Showdown"
Jeff Lynne
Electric Light Orchestra
Harvest
UK Singles Chart
VG-lista
On the Third Day
Showdown
funkier
sweeping strings
clavinet
John Lennon
Marvin Gaye

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