Electric Light Orchestra - Do Ya (Midnight Special TV 1977)

[@groundhog713]

It's Jeff minus the sunglasses. You rarely saw Jeff without them...

[@juanone66]

ELO made 4 Midnight Special appearances, more than any other band. RIP Hugh McDowell and Kelly Groucutt.

[@davidmacgregor5193]

Also now Richard Tandy has passed away, R.I.P. Richard Tandy.

[@flemingcourt]

SIX!

[@flemingcourt]

According to wiki(If you look careful enough), ELO made six appearances.

[@KickAssets]

I am really puzzled how not many people think this is the best band ever. They constantly say they are similar to the Beatles, when I don't feel like that at all. I liked the beatles, but didn't love them. I LOVE these guys. Their music is miles ahead and pure genius.

[@fabfour7397]

ELO has been the best band MUSICALLY NO DOUBT.

[@sarahloughlin3724]

Jeff and Kelly's vocals are in a league of their own. In my opinion they were the best singing duo ever .

[@jenifferjones]

Easy cause their idiots? Hahaha

[@michaelmcbride9831]

Word. They are currently on tour!!!

[@KickAssets]

@@michaelmcbride9831Yeah just picked up tickets for Vancouver and Seattle. :)

[@cubnation]

*A revolutionary band that should have been inducted into the Hall Of Fame after the release of their first album!*

[@stanleyapollon1318]

I AGREE!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@frankmarsh1159]

There was no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when their first album came out. How old are you?... Jeesh !

[@stephi7260]

Naaaaaah imagine getting inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame and one of your only songs is Battle of Marston Moor💀

[@АндрейАндрюшкевич-и6д]

От-к

[@АндрейАндрюшкевич-и6д]

Откуда только такие записи берутся!!

[@johnclites2286]

F**k, I remember the Midnight Special. God, thosee were the days. First job, a little money in my pocket, driver's license, hot GF with long auburn hair and hazel eyes. Life has never been that good since, sigh. Songs like this bring back so many great memories.

[@John-wy9ks]

It was this very performance that made me an ELO fan when I was 10.

[@slowpoke7759]

I seen them in 1976. They were teenagers as well. Ticket prices were circa $12-14 dollars for front row seats.🎸🎸🤟🏼🤟🏼

[@cubnation]

@@slowpoke7759 Wow! No more ticket prices like _that!_

[@slowpoke7759]

@@cubnation Many things do change in 45 years. Even have this song off the vinyl LP as well as an 8- track tape. High School years some of the best years. But that was nearly a half century ago and the time passed so frigging fast.

[@cubnation]

@@slowpoke7759 Yep, time is here and gone. 😉

[@moppydavycoonsmith3034]

HopeFully and Prayerfully one Day Soon, the people commenting right now on Electric Light Orchestra on U-Tube Wwill Kknow HHow (Who What Where Why When Whither Whether) To Live CharityLove In And To EternityTime Which Never Ends And Never Passes Away On The Way In And To The Heavenly.

[@se2702]

My first concert was the ELO - Out of the Blue tour. Nothing has surpassed it! Jeff Lynne is pure gold and all the members deserve much credit.

[@jacksnow1703]

I caught ELO Out of the Blue tour in Tucson, Arizona. One of the best bands I have ever seen live. Out of the Blue is also one of my favorite albums of all time.

[@sarahloughlin3724]

All the members had raw talent.

[@abcpc1]

I don’t think Jeff gets enough credit, for the Freakin musical Genius he was/IS!

[@RebeccaMcdaniel-rr6mm]

Jeff Lynne is The Emperor of Music. I love you then, now, and always Jeff. ❤️

[@flemingcourt]

Jeff's on tour in N. America. Get tickets if you can! Just saw his show in Vancouver 3 days ago. I have yet to come back down to Earth since.

[@rebeccamcdaniel1033]

@flemingcourt I've had a major crush on Jeff since 1974. I saw them in 1978, and I walked up close to the stage, (back in the day you could do that), and he smiled right at me. CRUSH CEMENTED!!! I would love to see him again, but it's not in the cards. But I do have all of ELOs albums and kick ass stereo, and I have a mile long KZbin play list, so I'll be halfway content with that.

[@recordman555]

I think one certain cellist took one too many! LOL! Absolutely amazing performance!

[@midshipcinema]

Awesome! Underrated single from one of the best albums ever recorded. Fantastic, energetic performance, too!

[@sljhww]

I totally agree with you!

[@chriscook5613]

Underrated by who? 😆😆😉

[@midshipcinema]

@@chriscook5613 It peaked at #24, which was far below where it should have gone on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. :)

[@terrypussypower]

@@chriscook5613. Fans of The Move’s version! 😁

[@richcarreiro9594]

Have Jeff Lynne and Bob Ross ever been spotted in the same place at the same time?

[@catfatherb2072]

Nope!

[@jondunmore4268]

D'oh! You've discovered his secret identity!

[@holdemNE1]

I thought I was going to be unique and add a Bob Ross comment but I see you beat me to it over a year ago.

[@MJohnMeatplow]

Funny, very funny

[@strivingformindfulness2356]

Jeff Lynne & Bob Ross: Twin sons of different mothers. lol

[@katieroller4812]

Extremely talented musicians! Jeff Lynn is a true genius

[@moodylicious]

One of the BEST songs of ALL TIME!! Play it at my funeral!! yeah! i was first struck by the strange magic of this iconic band at the age of 17 in 1977. The love affair has never ended. Just heard a song in the car today and thought Jeff had put out something new. It was wild....had Tommy James & the Shondelles influence and a George Harrison slide guitar along with Beatles sound. It was by Flyte, called Tryin to Break Your Heart.

[@julenepegher6999]

Hi there, great comment, ELO defined my high school years. Can’t reminisce one without the other.

[@MarkWoodChannel]

Coincidentally this is the last time Jeff Lynne was seen without sunglasses.

[@fabfour7397]

1976

[@JeffLynnesELO2025Tour]

The best live band ever! Hugh McDowell on the cello had too many beers. That was so funny!

[@JeffLynnesELO2025Tour]

Best Band period!!! Long live Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra!!!

[@Ezra.emerson]

The best band to have come out of the UK in the last 60 years. By a mile

[@juneskinner6639]

Wow, happy memories of the seventies, discos etc, man what a sound, by far the best, and will be played forever, keep on rockin lads, just magic X🥰🎸🎸👍❤️❤️❤️

[@hzv7242]

Hugh drops his cello at the beginning! 😁 Ya know what? This was the Midnight Special from NBC. This is when E. L.O. guest hosted for the entire show during their tour of A New World Record - and I just like to say how happy I am that I got to live through this and watch it when I was young even though it started at 1 a.m. on the east coast (U.S.A.) I was 12 years old and everything that people tell you about how great it was to live through that time period of music was true!

[@mreloo]

For sure ! I got hook on jeff lynne & elo from their midnight special performance of roll over Beethoven 1972...seen ever elo tour starting with 1973 "on the third day"

[@ronnieingle1447]

I was about 10 and it started at midnight in Texas

[@gracieturner2954]

Jeff, is a great writer and singer.

[@steveunderdahl8929]

But IIIIIIIIII, never seen nothing like them!! Fabulous

[@frankcutugno3576]

Just the way I remember seeing them at Madison Square! Out of the Blue had just come out and they were in a gigantic flying saucer! It was my first laser show! 😂 😁

[@UncompressedWAVmusic]

Love the energy in this song played great like this.

[@andreashering875]

Nach Californiaman gleich das Beste ! Später war noch The News so heißt der Song glaub ich ganz stark

[@greatunz67]

This was shortly before Jeff Lynne tried on a pair of dark sunglasses and never took them off again for the rest of his life.

[@z1205]

LMAO

[@brianlosure]

Well, he did go sunglasses-less in the Mr. Blue Sky and Turn to Stone videos soon after. But since then, glasses glued on! 😂

[@jimbreedlove4672]

The Guitar is killer in this song!

[@sarahmcpherson3666]

I was 10 when this aired. I sat mesmerized. I was hooked.

[@strivingformindfulness2356]

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 I've seen old men crying at their own grave sides And I've seen pigs all sitting watching picture slides But I never seen nothin' like you Do you, do you want my love, woman Do you, do you want my face (I need it!) Do you, do you want my mind (I'm saying it!) Do you, do you 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 never heard nothing 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 never seen nothin' like you Do you, do you want my love, woman Do you, do you want my face (I need it!) Do you, do you want my mind (I'm saying it!) Do you, do you want my love Well I think you know what I'm trying to say woman That is I'd like to save you for a rainy day I've seen enough of the world to know That I've got to get it all to get it all to grow Do you, do you want my love (come on now!) Do you, do you want my face (I need it!) Do you, do you want my mind (alright now!) Do you, do you want my love (ahh look out!) Do you, do you want my love Do you, do you want my love Songwriter: Jeff Lynne Do Ya lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

[@GR_BackingTracks]

Oh, THAT'S the name of this song, haha... "Do Ya?" I've heard this song thousands of times over decades and couldn't have ever told you that.

[@cptfink]

This song was on the B side of a single by The Move. It was a great version. Jeff Lynne was a member of The Move before the creation of ELO.

[@johnmenanno2152]

Nobody remembers how great the move were sadly

[@EICHOLZtheEXPERT]

@@johnmenanno2152 They were ahead of their time.

[@chimsonplays368]

0:58 Hugh McDowell Dropped His Cello

[@RebeccaMcdaniel-rr6mm]

Did you see the concert when Hugh tossed his cello in in air and forgot to catch it? He was hilarious. That was when he started packing a spare.

[@JeffLynnesELO2025Tour]

ELO the best ever!

[@doylecollins1351]

The year I graduated high school, talk about dazed and confused, hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

[@unrulyjulie4382]

Me too 😅

[@AJdeMan-df7jc]

Al 40 jaar de absolute top. Blijft steeds weer geweldig. Superrrrr

[@sljhww]

Yeahh it's great!!!

[@dougbateman8775]

This song was great, again, last month in Pittsburgh!

[@anitahuie1145]

He's such a genius. I'll always love him. Yes I want your face

[@VioletRene]

Thank You for sharing this!

[@LisaGemini]

Jeff is rocking that Afro! I love this band, have loved them since God knows when. The seventies rocked...sex, drugs and rock and roll when they weren't dancing at the disco. I was too young for most of it but I remember the rock and roll!

[@denisesaunders3067]

Gorgeous bev

[@Debra7171McGuire-fn9xr]

Love it just as much as I did back then ❤🎉😊

[@0therun1t21]

The magical spinning drumsticks in the background fuxked me up until I realized they were on a screen. I think it's hilarious for some reason.

[@frankford9744]

I'm an Australian we watched this great English music and concert

[@wonsworld61]

I saw them at Randwick Race Course in 78 (or 79?)

[@rickferguson2004]

Great song

[@jameswilson6578]

i have bought the ,Out of the Blue album more than any other over the years.Really enjoy their music.I saw this when it aired.i never noticed the chill hitting the floor...You pick up and keep going...

[@nightisright1873]

Holy shit Jeff has never been this talkative

[@MegaSammy70]

He isn't wearing his sunglasses either.

[@TheStarclipse]

When he's not wearing his sunglasses he's very talkative ,when he puts his sunglasses on he turns into the classic Jeff we all know 😂

[@nightisright1873]

@@TheStarclipse maybe if stopped wearing sunglasses during production we would get strings again

[@rick138]

Musical genius

[@kimowens8411]

I love it!!!!!!!!!

[@erniecaplanson5823]

A REALLY EXCELLENT video....GREATESTunes EVER CREATED ROCKIN the 70's....and 80's....too....

[@cindysmale9290]

Brilliant musicians.

[@frankfordfalukozi9150]

Great stuff great band

[@craigstahl1874]

Such a great pop song. You can hear Wings and Queen coming.

[@julenepegher6999]

Yes, I do! One of THE best songs of my senior year in high school !

[@cathybradley9067]

Always high... Love Jeff

[@saltyshockwave7723]

Born in 1972. Electric Light Orchestra rocks like no other!!

[@davidmacgregor5193]

ELO was actually born in July 1970 when "10538 Overture" was recorded for their 1971 self titled debut album.

[@saltyshockwave7723]

@@davidmacgregor5193 My bad. I was born in '72. Dang!, I'm old lol. Anyway, ELO will always rock!

[@АндрейТарасов-в7к]

Класс, чувак уронил волончель! Драйв! Люблю их❤

[@juliemackenzie1978]

Love them! 👍😊👏

[@Etheldreda-]

Oh my days 😳

[@John-hc2ws]

When I die, I want 70s on down played at my funeral.

[@ericskinner7355]

How many songs use those three chords? Great song, no law suits.

[@michaelmcbride9831]

Those people dancing in front get it man

[@Genjo_N_Mojave]

*45 years ago I had returned to the Mojave after hitch-hiking across the USofA, seems like 20 years ago!*

[@canislupis3129]

Yup. Just graduated high school as this came on. Went to the North Pole to work for 5 months and made enough to buy my first car for cash. Used to drive so far at night to get the girlfriend while listening to ELO.

[@keithlauderjr1691]

The hosts must have stole the show that night. Wow!

[@slowpoke7759]

They were just as great in 1976, some 45 years ago in concert. Didn’t have cell phone light, just a Bic lighter turned into a flame thrower. There concerts were a good place for a contact buzz.😁😁🎸

[@MarkkuKoljonenwTinja]

Jep! :D

[@chuckecheese3161]

Do ya do ya want...

[@dimashadiwardani]

my love, woman

[@tripperdelaluna1]

Lasers and polymoogs

[@PHill1960]

This was just after A New World Record was released..

[@denisesaunders3067]

Jeff looks great minus specs

[@sarahloughlin3724]

Jeff always looked good no matter what.

[@kurtcummins9067]

I think a see a marshall plexi super lead 100.

[@jenifferjones]

Always did think DAMN dude cut that FRO! MEH didn't effect his singing thou, to each his own. Reminds me of Don Brewer Grand Funk.

[@gibs8412]

love how the cello player drops the instrument right in the beginning of live tv broadcast, probably had a string out of tune at least...

[@BackToTheBlues]

I thought that!

[@flynnmaxim3193]

What happend to the Play Back ?? O thats right, they didnt used that 💪💪 The time when Real Musicians play at the Drop of a Hat. !!! ELO One of the Gratest Bands EVER 👍👍👍

[@johngalush8790]

Wow! You're actually convinced this is real? Notice how celloist dropped his instrument at the beginning. He's faking. That means it was a prerecorded track. Don't be such a chump.

[@GNF54]

@@johngalush8790 Well I don’t think the Cellos kicked in at the start. So dropping the instrument doesn’t really indicate anything

[@LeeFred78]

I see the bass player gets no camera time during this performance.

[@scottlevine8058]

And he doesn't get put into the RRHOF either. Wonder why?

[@mreloo]

@@scottlevine8058 what does that stand for?

[@nolagospeltracts8264]

@@mreloo I'm sure you looked this up by now but, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

[@thomasmorano7779]

Does everyone appreciate the 4 girls in front dancing?the other people look like they are watching a 🎥 movie

[@billybio6840]

Bob Ross is awesome, amazing painter and sings like a bird

[@fabfour7397]

Idiot

[@Pwj579]

I would go on record to say that ELO had better songs than the Beatles, but were Not the cultural phenomenon obviously

[@fabfour7397]

ELO was better Musically than the Beatles no doubt but commercially the Beatles were no 1 and today Taylor Swift is...LOL...

[@firecrywithme7388]

Ya know 57

[@markesquivelarvizu6942]

Never try to play the cello after a plate of fried chicken

[@JereForsyth]

Well said!

[@htxbadger7154]

He threw that thing

[@LoredanaLanzo-iq8ux]

Qualcuno per favore mi traduce in italiano, cosa dice Jeff Lynne 😂 grazie. A me sembra dire che lui è soave e che ringrazia Jesus Christ Santana bidabap

[@popiaandrei4528]

Gulerul camasi ani 72 .73 mai tineti minte ?

[@gettyz]

Jeff Lynne would have SEAMLESSLY integrated with Lennon/McCartney if they collaborated.

[@janeensizemore578]

I think Jeff has sensitive eyes

[@fabfour7397]

Not here, he is without his prescription sunglasses.

[@jjducharme1]

Can't get past @ 1.00, dropped their instrument trying to impress....

[@fabfour7397]

Live TV is great. Hugh had too many beers but fun to watch.

[@thxcuz]

I like the move’s version better

[@Pigpenned]

This was the band I saw in Cardiff Capitol with Kelly and Mik. I hated it when Jeff went Mr Blue Sky. He got really big headed and the music suffered. The original ELO were amazing.

[@EltonWhenRockWasYoung]

Two singers, three-part harmonies. 🤨

[@deecook8393]

I'm surprised that cello lived thru that embarrassing opening disaster.