Electric Light Orchestra - Can’t Get it Out Of My Head (1975) • TopPop

Can’t Get It Out of My Head“ is a song written by Jeff Lynne and originally recorded by Electric Light Orchestra (also known as ELO). First released on the band’s fourth album ’Eldorado’ in September 1974, the song is the second track on the album and follows “Eldorado Overture.“ The song was released in November the same year as a single. The song became the band’s first top 10 single in the United States, reaching number 9 and helped boost public awareness of the band in the U.S.; however, back in the UK the single and LP failed to chart. In 1978, it was included as the lead song on the four-track The ELO EP (UK release), reaching number 34 on the UK charts. The song has appeared on many ELO compilation albums. The song reached #19 on the Dutch Top 40 chart on 15 March 1975 the website Jeff Lynne Song reports: () ’There was a promo video for ’Can’t Get It Out Of My Head’ produced that features the band miming to the single version of the song. It starts off showing the exterior of an English building on Forshaw Heath Lane in Birmingham, then zooms into a small building beside the main building that is marked “Forshaw Heath Social Centre Hall“ and fades to show the band playing in a very small room, as if the band is playing inside the building (although they may likely be on a sound stage). It’s a very small, crowded room and there is no room for the band to move about. Each band member except Hugh McDowell is wearing a t-shirt with a logo for Avro’s Toppop; Bev and Richard’s are red while all the others’ are yellow. Hugh, who had apparently just rejoined the band, is instead wearing a blue long sleeve shirt, but an Avro’s Toppop sticker is clearly attached to his white cello and it gets several close-ups in the video. Avro’s Toppop was a TV show from the Netherlands, modeled after the UK’s Top Of The Pops, and presumably they were the sponsors of the video. Both Jeff and Kelly are wearing black shirts over their t-shirts, with Jeff’s also having a print of large white wings across the chest and shoulders, which would make an appearance many more times in the following years. It’s the first appearance of Mik Kaminski playing his famous blue violin and it’s also the first appearance of a quite nervous looking Kelly Groucutt in the band.’ This historic Toppop recording was recorded in Forshaw Heath Social Centre Hall in Birmingham in February 1975. It was first broadcast by Toppop on 14 February 1975 Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: 14 February 1975 This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons with Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Queen, Golden Earring, Boney M, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, Donna Summer and many many more.