Long Wave

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All Music Guide - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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 ...
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Editorial Reviews

All Music Guide - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 10/9/2012
  • Label: Frontiers Records
  • EAN: 8024391056974
  • Catalog Number: 105697
  • Sales rank: 992

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 She (2:41)
  2. 2 If I Loved You (2:21)
  3. 3 So Sad (2:33)
  4. 4 Mercy, Mercy (2:53)
  5. 5 Running Scared (2:10)
  6. 6 Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (2:20)
  7. 7 Smile (2:32)
  8. 8 At Last (2:33)
  9. 9 Love is a Many Splendored Thing (2:30)
  10. 10 Let It Rock (1:52)
  11. 11 Beyond the Sea (2:53)
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Album Credits

Performance Credits
Jeff Lynne Primary Artist, Bass, Guitar, Piano, Drums, Rhythm Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Background Vocals, Vibes
Marc Mann Strings
Steve Jay Tambourine, Shaker
Technical Credits
Jeff Lynne Producer, Liner Notes
Roy Orbison Composer
Richard Rodgers Composer
Charles Trénet Composer
Charlie Chaplin Composer
Sammy Fain Composer
Oscar Hammerstein II Composer
Lorenz Hart Composer
R. Miller Composer
Howie Weinberg Mastering
David Wild Liner Notes
J. Lawrence Composer
Ryan Corey Art Direction, Illustrations
A. Lasry Composer
H. Kretzmer Composer
D. Everly Composer
J. Melson Composer
H. Warren Composer
G. Parsons Composer
E. Anderson Composer
Dan Gerbarg Mastering
Steve Jay Engineer
Alton Douglas Photo Courtesy
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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 27, 2013

    I was not a big ELO follower but I appreciated his producing tal

    I was not a big ELO follower but I appreciated his producing talents that encompassed way more than ELO credits. I liked this album, having no expectation of ELO greatness to be apparent but merely because good music is good music is good music.

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  • Posted December 10, 2012

    Avoid this

    Growing up a an ELO fan I became used to a great variety of sounds and styles from one great band. Unfortunately this Jeff Lynne solo release demonstrates that those days are far behind us. It appears that Jeff is just 'phoning it in' these days with this collection of remakes that all sound like one another, using a production style that he had over-used two decades ago. However, the worst part of this release is that it forces you to morn the loss of a once great voice. At the height of ELO's success Jeff was a singer of many talents; but that voice is long dead as we can clearly hear here.

    ALL HAIL ELO!

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