Do Ya - Electric Light Orchestra | The Midnight Special

[@leokimvideo]

One of ELO's best songs, very rare to see Jeff without glasses when playing. The Cello spin stunt didn't quite work out, lucky they bounce.

[@RS-nf4vz]

Stationary audience members tried to make up for it? :D Can you imagine THIS not getting ya up on ya feet?

[@darkobiwan]

I don't care how heavy you like your music, you cannot deny that guitar riff is bad ass.

[@hinjurock70]

3 chords and the truth.

[@phoenixjim0527]

Love it! And this live version has a little scratchy grit to boot.

[@pejaguilar30]

It is one of the most anticipated presentations for me. Thank you very much The Midnight Special for this gift to all ELO music lovers.

[@donwillis9103]

A rediscovered passion for me. I knew ELO, but now I know ELO, and love these songs.

[@fabfour7397]

ELO the best ever musically!💯❤💥

[@Van-zf9iw]

70's hair, clothes, and music. Live even. YES.

[@julenepegher6999]

All my favorites from the 70’s 👏

[@paulvincer199]

What a great performance of ELO during their heyday!. Would love to see other songs performed that night "Living Thing" & "Telephone Line". They were hosts on this episode February 18, 1977.

[@Solomongrundy68]

They will. Right now they uploading mid of 73 full program. I think we will have to be patient.

[@dynjarren8355]

Wow! I get to see Jeff Lynn’s eyes for once. He had the Rose colored Sunglasses surgically implanted shortly after this show so you couldn’t see his eyes anymore. This is a great ELO show! Thanks!

[@WintersWar]

The hair and glasses became a trademark though. the mystique.

[@curtisphilumalee1447]

You know it’s a hellva good tune when the ladies ( now in their seventies ) get up and start dancing. ELO was hitting their stride with this album.

[@AKRASSIA]

That's what I was thinking too, they are all grandma's now lol

[@curtisphilumalee1447]

Right…… Lmao I’m a grandpa

[@mikeycourington2011]

Hey, they were in the seventies then, and they're in their seventies now. Still a lot of pure righteousness here!

[@KittyGrizGriz]

It’s a right of passage to be a grandmother & I’m not in my 70’s 😉

[@curtisphilumalee1447]

It was just an observation. I became a PawPaw at 59.

[@that70sgirl90]

When i saw him in concerts in 2019, he sang this song! Everyone was on their feet! 🙆‍♀️ What an awesome night in time! Certainly one I will never forget! He put on one heck of a show!! Happy Tuesday... thank you for sharing! 💖

[@beckiebuist803]

I saw the tour as well...sadly he did not perform this number, but he did knock out all his other great. It was a magical concert that I'll never forget !

[@JQ127-c4e]

The classic ELO lineup right here!! Kelly added so much on vocals. Bev cant be topped!

[@mikegendron3723]

OMG!! Jeff Lynne has eyes!! LOL!!!

[@Kedbuka]

One word sums up this performance: EPIC

[@sarahloughlin3724]

Jeff Lynne and Kelly sound so beautiful singing together!

[@AJTurnsLeft]

0:07 that poor cello

[@notanotherjamesmurphy5574]

Kelly Groucutt and Jeff Lynne’s voices blend together so well

[@KittyGrizGriz]

LOVE this so much!! The harmonies are outta sight! Jeff’s not wearing his sunglasses again, pretty peepers & love his light blue, shiny satin outfit he looks smokin’ hot here 😮‍💨 ☀️💗☀️💗☀️

[@Cosmo-Kramer]

He was blessed with bright blue eyes, it's the bags under his eyes he was/is self-conscious about.

[@SirManfly]

I still have 5 original vinyl LP's from the 70's and early 80's ! they still work cuz they never got all scratched as a teen !! 🎸

[@anthonyvinson5081]

A super fan since the mid-70s, I was fortunate to have seen ELO multiple times - I've lost count - on three continents and enjoyed every moment of each performance. This Midnight Special appearance from '77 makes me smile from the inside out remembering the tours for A New World Record and Out of the Blue!

[@DrTomoculus]

THANK YOU MIDNIGHT SPECIAL!!!! For showing us what Jeff Lynne looks like without shades!!!!!

[@sylv_skove]

Wow...A while ago I said that if there were more Electric Light Orchestra videos I would be the happiest woman in the world. To my surprise I have seen that my wish has been fulfilled and now my happiness is as high as the highest layers of the atmosphere...I don't know who you are but THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! If you continue publishing these gems I will end up writing the name of this channel in my will...hahaha!! Thanks again!!! MUCHAS GRACIAS!!! Greetings from Spain!!!🥲🙏🏻🛸🚀🙌💕💖

[@themidnightspecialtvshow]

Our pleasure! Glad you are enjoying them.

[@mikehannon4097]

I saw ELO in Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens in 1973 as the intro band for Edgar Winter. Still an unknown band at the time.

[@jeffsimmons4686]

Ah, back in the day when you wanted to see something on TV, you actually had to STAY UP AND WATCH IT. Unless you worked at a TV station....

[@mikegendron3723]

I'm in a 2 hour (so far) rabbit hole of "The Midnight Special" remastered to it's glory of when I first watched it on TV! MAGNIFICENT!! I'm enjoying the music of my youth with memories that I thought were gone, flashing back in to my head through the music!! THANK YOU!!!

[@darvoid66]

@0:07 There's no way in hell that cello is still in tune. Giggity.

[@Jreb1865]

I seen the same thing...lol Pretty hard drop on that cello.

[@JohnFromArlingtron]

He's trippin or something. He can barely stand.

[@AdrianDeVore]

I felt sorry for that poor cello. 😅

[@stevecasey1037]

.. But..... The Show must go on.!.!..

[@jeffandersen7397]

was looking for this comment !

[@ericstewart9499]

So awesome Love ELO

[@StephanieJeanne]

Fantastique!! That's about as Disco as ELO was going to get with those shiny/sparkly outfits! 😅 As always, they gave a great performance! I especially loved the lady down in front to the left. She was having a great time dancing. Thanks for another great clip, Midnight Special!🤩

[@victorjohnson7512]

ELO did the soundtrack for the roller-disco movie "Xanadu" starring Olivia Newton John.

[@StephanieJeanne]

@@victorjohnson7512 Did they? Hehe. I totally forgot that movie. I never thought of them as Disco-y myself though.

[@zg9445]

There were some pretty dancey moments on Discovery and Time, although I guess it’s debatable how disco-ey they were 🕺 🪩 💃

[@gregoryduncan3067]

They got disco-y in the Xanadu soundtrack and the Discovery album before it.

[@StephanieJeanne]

@@gregoryduncan3067 Yeah, I guess I forgot or somehow missed that. 🤦🙃😄

[@stevemann3080]

It's MIDNIGHT now & this is SPECIAL 🎸🔊🤘🤘🙏

[@nicholaswolfe4219]

I don't think Kelly Groucutt gets the recognition he deserves. A solid bass player and an his vocals add a distinct and important element to the classic ELO song.

[@paulfrederick8902]

Jeff Lynne without his shades?😮😮😮

[@susanfromnola8661]

Classic, so many good versions!! Not used to seeing Jeff without his shades...so young!

[@xaviercallobre6822]

I absolutely love this. ELO with their best lineup playing full tilt!

[@billcampbell2810]

I was so fortunate having spent my teenage years in the late 70's early 80's so much great music,

[@julenepegher6999]

Do ya want to go back?? The 70’s and the best music ever!!

[@phcoh]

Wow what a talented man, i never knew Bob Ross played in a band as well as painting. 😊

[@raemerritt]

Awesome to see this performance. When I was a pre-teen/teen I used to watch the Midnight Special. A lot of good music back in those days.

[@Woozlewuzzleable]

ELO is one of those bands that I thought I didn't know but then I was like oh they did that song, I love that song to all of their songs.

[@zg9445]

I remember Telephone Line in Billy Madison, but I didn’t know what it was for a decade or so 😅

[@zg9445]

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[@jasonwade6945]

Love it when the guy drops his cello at the beginning. He got too excited

[@rebeccawagner4167]

The Midnight Special, had the amazing taste for putting on ELO. I remember seeing this show. It was absolutely amazing. I never forget listening 🎶 🙌 to them .Their sound is definitely unique and original. They had a style and sound that is timeless and classic.

[@TheStarclipse]

This is the show I've been requesting since day 1,would you please upload the full program please I would love to see the rest of the songs and ELO hosting ❤

[@Solomongrundy68]

They will. Right now they are around mid of 73. We will have to be a little patient.

[@TheStarclipse]

​@@Solomongrundy68that's good to know!

[@sljhww]

Thank you for uploading all these videos, it is a treasure to see it in this image quality

[@Neelloc83]

I am also going to add my two cents and ask nicely to air this episode in its entirety. ELO was/is one of my favorite bands as a teenager in the 70s. Love, love this song. Though there may be disco balls on the stage, this is a ROCK and ROll song! ❤

[@Solomongrundy68]

They will. right now they are end of 73, we will have to be a little patient.

[@maurimartinez8720]

BRUTAL!!!... Thank you very much!!!... 😍🔝😎💡 E L O, E L O

[@Cosmo-Kramer]

Bev Bevan, as was the norm back then, addressed the crowd before each performance. When he did so on this TMS episode, which ELO hosted, he told the audience that they'd be treated to the first-ever televised light/laser show. How cool is that?! ELO was always cutting edge--whether it was the light shows, the near omnipresence of strings in their music, vocoder use, etc. Jeff was also a pioneer lyricist, with several of the first mainstream rock/pop songs containing environmental protest messages being early-to-mid '70s ELO tracks like, "Laredo Tornado", "One Summer Dream", and, "Mission (A World Record)". He wasn't the earliest rocker to put those messages in a song, that crown belongs Joni Mitchell with her hit, "Big Yellow Taxi", and the famous line, "they paved paradise, put up a parking lot", from 1970. With the runner up being Marvin Gaye's, "Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology Song)", from '71. But, "Laredo Tornado", was Jeff's earliest, from '74, so he was among the first.

[@CraigHollabaugh]

40 yrs ago my college cover band played but didn't have the hair for it. Love this version, rock on Jeff and ELO!

[@christinabeasley]

I absolutely adore ELO!!!!

[@Jreb1865]

One of my favorite songs ever by ELO.

[@MCW1955]

Beautiful!! They made it look so easy but can you imagine work and practice it took to sound like that live?

[@MissPerriwinkle]

his electric eyes are georgous. omg.

[@ronarmitagejr8758]

Right on man.

[@georgezipp223]

Great live performance. Thank you Midnight Special.

[@drm54321]

Love these guys...so unique....never been any band like them! Thanks Midnight Special / Burt!

[@cturdo]

That poor cello is taking a beating on that stage!

[@flazjsg]

Excellent performance! Thanks!

[@HunterTiberisBojangles]

I remember how hard it was at 11 to stay up past SNL to watch this..lots of potato chips and OJ!!

[@RodeWerk-Rw]

ELO was always an awesome performance. Thanks a lot for displaying this treasure.

[@brunosarria3558]

Thanks you Burt. Amazing performance.

[@lineshaftrestorations7903]

A band that actually can play live and sounds great doing it. 😊

[@peggysmyth6110]

Listening to ELO is a treat

[@jehl1963]

Had to laugh when at 0:09 the cellist with the white cello was so busy hamming it up that he drops his cello on the stage -- strings down!. I can see why Jeff ultimately felt that live strings were too much trouble.

[@BlackHatCinephile]

Great performance. Cellos rock🎻

[@renelealr]

Estaba esperando este video!!! Para mi, la mejor versión de DO YA especialmente por el rasgueo de Jeff para hacer los fills. Grandes todos!!!

[@TimSheets]

wish I could give this another thumbs-up!

[@hollylewis5302]

Have we had enough Grunge fashion? Can we bring back the sequins and satin? Makes for a great stage show! Love ELO since the 70s. 🤘

[@johnbrundige-zy1fm]

This is what rock and roll is all about keep rocking Jeff lynns elo

[@junegloom6024]

A man with a giant afro wearing a sequined jumpsuit dropping his electric cello is what rock and roll is all about.

[@Boof37]

Lmao, the cello going down instantly!! This song can do it to ya

[@floydburney6060]

.... & Shortly after this performance, the one obnoxious cello player (the one falling all over himself throughout the entire song) was shoved out of the tour bus in his underwear on the George Washington Bridge by Jeff Lynne himself.

[@jeffmerklin2022]

Great info! Saw Jeff's ELO last Saturday in Cleveland. Still a fantastic, fun show. And no cellists tried to upstage Jeff/the show! (although the cellist's slit dresses did manage to catch my attention now and then)

[@rushfan3249]

Which cello player Melvyn Gale or Hugh McDowell

[@jamesgale2486]

I saw them in Los Angeles on Friday! ​@@jeffmerklin2022

[@sanookaus1334]

Right on!

[@shanewisniewski2]

​@@rushfan3249Guy is fulla shit...Lynne got rid of em both at same time in 1980

[@robotrix]

REALLY WANT the episode that Peter Noone hosted in a park in London that had ELO and Gilbert O'Sullivan!!!!

[@zenmasterjay1]

The Midnight Special... always comes through in the end...which never ever.....comes......Cuz just before she leaves... she recieves!🎉❤🎉

[@junegloom6024]

Thank you for punk rock, Mr Lynne.

[@Washington-Dreaming]

It’s really interesting because ELO is one of the only bands from that era I think with a violinist on stage. I saw the Corrs in the early 2000s at Ste. Michelle in Woodinville and of course they do the same, and they were really popular because I think they had the number-one hit at the time. (I don’t live in the area but I really liked concerts at that winery.)

[@lucalone]

1:50 min That Bridge is out of this world !!

[@davidlemay4761]

Superb music!😅

[@JorgeTorres-nk5gw]

Simplemente espectacular!

[@jeffhovis9077]

I'm digging the chick in the white dress on the left grooving to the music....

[@brianlosure]

Love Jeff’s look at Kelly at the end of the second verse at 1:39. Your turn!

[@kenkyukai96]

Perfection.

[@elvinposey5251]

Never a ELO fan but this song is a great rock pop song that no band could write or play. this live version kicks butt.

[@JasperJamesExperiment]

Jeff Lynne is so good - this holds up extremely well!

[@peggyconley5225]

Wow love it❤❤❤

[@bouwebear597]

a rare peek behind the shades...I think this was the last time Jeff would show his eyes to the world.

[@wandson5410]

Oh a good live

[@robertnobody]

At 0:08 hilarious violin drop, he attempted to spin it and dropped it, but they kept it in anyway....lol.

[@elovalparaiso]

Gracias......!

[@johnw5584]

I remember this song back in the day, but I never knew ELO preformed it.

[@samuelgates5935]

Imagine if ELO, had made a record with Queen! Opera sound of Queen, with the orchestral classical sound of ELO!😎😎😎 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@TonyLovell]

ELO is the most artless art band. 145 songs, end to end.

[@gregdolecki8530]

Cello drop at 0:09

[@gregoryduncan3067]

That laser show is far out, man. Interesting, he doesn't seem to wear his 🕶️ much on the Midnight Special.

[@StephanieJeanne]

You reminded me of laser shows. I never went to one myself, but they were a thing for a while, for sure. Hehe

[@curtisphilumalee1447]

Blue Oyster Cults laser light show was the best.

[@gregoryduncan3067]

​@@StephanieJeanneYeah, I foretold the laser show episode they did. It's nice to see that in mint quality.

[@StephanieJeanne]

@@gregoryduncan3067 🙌✨😎

[@ronaldmorris3197]

It's before the bags under his eyes got bigger and bigger.

[@top.6180]

Oh good live

[@daisywrabbit]

Jeff, sans sunglasses.

[@RadRogue1]

Music Stars and Shooting Stars 🎶⭐🌠

[@Woodwerker]

When bands played real music - and great music on top of it!!! No voice enhancements like today's crappy music!!! Awesome

[@phoenixjim0527]

👏🏻 for the two babes dancing upfront while everyone else sits on their butts

[@crudeliocastillejoscrudo8255]

Big ones ELO and sorry by Cello 0:07

[@maria.fernanda277]

❤

[@robertkaiser5554]

@2:30, set your phasers to "stun," turn the volume up to 11 and know that this is why God made goldtop Les Pauls

[@dlanodrelda]

Long live The Move..

[@william-uc2oy]

Saw them on the first US tour. Frampton’s Camel opened for them. It was at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. I think the ticket was $10.

[@RS-nf4vz]

Well in this life I've seen everything I can see woman I've seen lovers flying through the air hand in hand I've seen babies dancing in the midnight sun And I've seen dreams that came from the heavenly skies above And I've seen old men crying at their own grave sides And I've seen pigs all sitting watching picture slides But I (I) Never seen nothing like you (Never seen nothing like you) (Do ya, do ya want my love?) Woman (Do ya, do ya want my face?) I need it (Do ya, do ya want my mind?) I tell ya (Do ya, do ya want my love?) Well I heard the crowd singin' out of tune As they sat and sang Auld Lang Syne by the light of the moon I heard the preachers bangin' on the drums And I heard the police playin' with their guns But I (I) Never heard nothin' like you (Never heard nothin' like you) In the country where the sky touches down on the field She lay her down to rest in the morning sun They come a runnin' just to get a look, just to feel To touch her long black hair, they don't give a damn But I (I) Never seen nothin' like you (Never seen nothin' like you) (Do ya, do ya want my love?) Woman (Do ya, do ya want my face?) I need it (Do ya, do ya want my mind?) I tell ya (Do ya, do ya want my love?) Alright now! (Do ya, do ya want my love?) C'mon now! (Do ya, do ya want my face?) I need it! (Do ya, do ya want my mind?) Sing it! (Do ya, do ya want my love?) Oh look out! Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh

[@jadakid6942]

I was lucky and stoked to see these guys inducted into the RnR HoF in 2017 (yes I know it’s mostly bogus, but anyway). Awesomely original band.

[@GNF54]

Most of these guys never got inducted into the RNRHOF unfortunately, only Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan, and Richard Tandy of the 75-79 line up got inducted