40. "Eldorado Overture/Can't Get It Out of My Head" by Electric Light Orchestra {#9; 12/74} [Video: Can't Get It Out of My Head. (Bad lip-sync "live" video featuring a furry-headed Jeff Lynne.)]
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"Can't Get It Out of My Head" was the Electric Light Orchestra's first Top 10 hit. It's off of ELO's fourth album, "Eldorado." The previous album, "On the Third Day" (known in these parts as "the belly-button album") was excellent, but because America was too busy listening to Tony Orlando and/or Dawn, it never really caught on with the purchasing public. (The album, and its biggest hit, "Showdown," both couldn't crack #50 on the Hot 100.)
But, "Eldorado" made it to #16 on the album charts, and "Can't Get It Out of My Head" went to #9 on the singles chart.
I had been familiar with "Can't Get It Out of My Head," but I hadn't heard the prelude to it, "Eldorado Overture," until I listened to a long radio interview of Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevan, and they played it as a bit of an intro. I was instantly mesmerized. Yes, "Can't Get It Out of My Head" would be in my Top 200 without it, but it is the "Eldorado Overture" portion of the song that drives it into the Top 40. It's just some great orchestral flare. When I listen to "Eldorado Overture" I can understand all those times that Major Charles Winchester hoarded and played his classical music on his portable record player. This song hits me the same way those records did to him.
[As an aside, when I went to type "Can't Get It Out of My Head" in to Google, I got the wavy red "spelling mistake" line under "Out of," then it was auto-corrected to "Outta." I found this very perplexing, since "Outta" is not a word. Proof once again that Google is stupid.]
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