The Very Best of the Electric Light Orchestra

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Mr Blue Sky
  5:03
• 2
  Sweet Talkin’ Woman
  3:49
  4.5 ★
• 3
  Livin’ Thing
  3:34
  4.1 ★
• 4
  Evil Woman
  4:17
• 5
  The Diary of Horace Wimp
  4:19
  4.5 ★
• 6
  Telephone Line
  4:42
  4.5 ★
• 7
  Shine a Little Love
  4:42
  4.4 ★
• 8
  Turn to Stone
  3:49
  4.7 ★
• 9
  Calling America
  3:27
• 10
  Can’t Get It Out of My Head
  4:25
  4.5 ★
• 11
  Here Is the News
  3:51
  3.6 ★
• 12
  Roll Over Beethoven
  4:17
• CD 2
• 1
  Rockaria
  3:16
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Rock ’n’ Roll Is King
  3:08
  3.5 ★
• 3
  Confusion
  3:38
  3.6 ★
• 4
  All Over the World
  4:03
  4.5 ★
• 5
  Don’t Walk Away
  4:36
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Wild West Hero
  4:42
  4.5 ★
• 7
  Don’t Bring Me Down
  4:04
  4.4 ★
• 8
  I’m Alive
  3:45
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Last Train to London
  4:33
  4.3 ★
• 10
  Hold On Tight
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Strange Magic
  4:11
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Ticket to the Moon
  4:08
  4.6 ★

More by Electric Light Orchestra

Discovery

Discovery 1979

Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue 1977

A New World Record

A New World Record 1976

From out of Nowhere

From out of Nowhere 2019

Wembley or Bust

Wembley or Bust 2017

Alone in the Universe

Alone in the Universe 2015

Release credits

• Addie Lee
  background vocals [3]
• Bev Bevan
  background vocals [1], drums (drum set) [1.1-11, 2.1-12], other instruments [1], percussion [2.1-12, 1.1-11], timpani [4-5, 8]
• Bill Bottrell
  engineer [1.9, 2.2]
• Brie Brandt
  background vocals [3]
• Dick Plant
  engineer [1.3, 1.6, 1.10, 2.1]
• Duane Scott
  engineer [2.1, 1.3, 1.6]
• Electric Light Orchestra
  performer [4-5, 8]
• Ellie Greenwich
  background vocals [1.4, 2.11]
• Hugh McDowell
  cello [2.1, 2.11, 1.3-4, 1.6]
• Jeff Lynne
  Moog [10], acoustic guitar [4-5, 8], arranger [1.2, 1.8, 2.6], background vocals [1.9, 2.4-5, 2.8], bass guitar [9], choir vocals [1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 2.3, 2.7, 2.9], drum machine [2], electric guitar [2.3, 2.7, 2.9, 1.5, 1.7], guitar [1.1-4, 1.6, 1.8-11, 2.1-2, 2.4-6, 2.8, 2.10-12], keyboard [9], lead vocals [1.1-11, 2.1-12], orchestrator [3], percussion [2], piano [2.2-3, 2.7, 2.9-10, 2.12, 1.5, 1.7, 1.9, 1.11], producer [2.1-12, 1.1-11], strings [2.3, 2.7, 2.9, 1.5, 1.7], synthesizer [2.2-10, 2.12, 1.1-2, 1.5, 1.7-8, 1.11]
• Jimmy Iovine
  engineer [1.4, 2.11]
• John Richards
  assistant [10], engineer [1.3, 1.6, 2.1]
• Kelly Groucutt
  background vocals [2.1, 2.4-5, 2.8, 1.1, 1.3, 1.6], bass [1.1-4, 1.6, 1.8, 1.11, 2.1-2, 2.6, 2.10-12], bass guitar [1.5, 1.7, 2.3-5, 2.7-9], choir vocals [1.5, 1.7, 2.3, 2.7, 2.9]
• Kenny Denton
  assistant [10]
• Louis Clark
  arranger [1.2, 1.8, 2.6], choir vocals [1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 2.3, 2.7, 2.9], conductor [1.1-8, 1.10, 2.1, 2.3-9, 2.11], orchestrator [3], strings [1.5, 1.7, 2.3-5, 2.7-9]
• Mack
  engineer [2.1, 2.3-12, 1.1-8, 1.11], mix [9]
• Margaret Raymond
  background vocals [2.11, 1.4]
• Mary Thomas
  vocal [1]
• Melvyn Gale
  cello [1.3-4, 1.6, 2.1, 2.11], piano [6]
• Michael d’Albuquerque
  bass [10]
• Mik Kaminski
  violin [2.1-2, 2.6, 2.11, 1.2-4, 1.6]
• Mike Pela
  engineer [10]
• Nancy O'Neill
  background vocals [2.11, 1.4]
• Patti Quatro
  background vocals [3]
• Rainer Pietsch
  conductor [2.10, 2.12, 1.11]
• Richard Tandy
  Moog [2.1, 2.11, 1.3-4, 1.6, 1.10], arranger [2.6, 1.2, 1.8], choir vocals [2.3, 2.7, 2.9, 1.3, 1.5, 1.7], clarinet [2.3, 2.7, 2.9, 1.5, 1.7], clavinet [1.3-4, 1.6, 2.1, 2.11], drum machine [2], electric piano [2.2-3, 2.7, 2.9-10, 2.12, 1.5, 1.7, 1.11], grand piano [2], guitar [1.3-4, 1.6, 1.11, 2.1, 2.10-12], harmonica [2], keyboard [2.4-6, 2.8, 1.1-2, 1.8-9], orchestrator [3], piano [1.3-7, 1.9-11, 2.1, 2.3-5, 2.7-12], programming [9], solo [11], strings [1.5, 1.7, 2.3, 2.7, 2.9], synthesizer [1.5, 1.7, 1.11, 2.2-5, 2.7-10, 2.12]
• Susan Collins
  background vocals [1.4, 2.11]
• Tom Thiel
  engineer [9]
• Show all credits (28)

Issues

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  The Very Best of the Electric Light Orchestra

  2x CD
  1989