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Bergo '45 Song of the Week #129 - James' Pick for 12/20/15:
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"Do Ya" by Electric Light Orchestra from A New World Record (1976)
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"Plain and simple, this is one of the coolest songs I've ever heard. But, um, Jeff! What was her response when you told her, 'I'd like to save you for a rainy day?'" - James Lanier

"My little sister used to go around singing this song when we were kids, but mistook the word 'face' for 'egg'. She'd go 'Do ya, do ya want my egg'. What mystified me at the time was the severity with which my mom demanded she stop singing that particular line..." - J.L.

This is a weekly dive into the musical mind of Bergo '45. Each week, a new song is chosen by a different member of the band. Check out the playlist to see all of the past selections. Grab a towel and give it a listen....


The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) are a British rock group from Birmingham, England. They were formed to accommodate Roy Wood's and Jeff Lynne's desire to create modern rock and pop songs with classical overtones. After Wood's departure following the band's debut record, Lynne wrote and arranged all of the group's original compositions and produced every album. In 2012, Lynne reformed the band under the moniker Jeff Lynne's ELO.

Despite early singles' success in the United Kingdom, the band was initially more successful in the United States, where they were billed as "The English guys with the big fiddles". They gained a cult following notwithstanding initial lukewarm reviews in their native UK. By the mid-1970s, they had become one of the biggest-selling acts in music. From 1972 to 1986, ELO accumulated 27 Top-40 hit singles in both the UK and the US, with 20 Top 20 UK singles and 15 Top-20 US singles. The band also holds the record for having the most Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hits, 20, of any group in US chart history without having a number one single. However, the band did reach #1 on the Radio & Records chart with "Shine a Little Love" in 1979 .

During the group's original 13-year period of active recording and touring, ELO collected 19 CRIA, 21 RIAA and 38 BPI awards, and sold over 50 million records worldwide.

A New World Record is the sixth studio album by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released in 1976.
Their second album to be recorded at Musicland Studios in Munich, the LP proved to be the band's breakthrough in the UK: after their previous three studio recordings failed to chart in their home market, A New World Record became their first top ten album in the UK. It became a global success and reached multi-platinum status in the US and UK, The album sold five million units worldwide within its first year of release.



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