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When Jeff Lynne was growing up, he listened to music on longwave radio, soaking up all the sounds coming through the big radio in the living room. His 2012 tribute to these days, appropriately called Long Wave, is a far-reaching salute to the glory days of pop in the years before the Beatles. It's too easy to peg this as a standards album, a designation that isn't quite accurate. Lynne may cover many show tunes along with '50s favorites of big-band vocalists but he spends nearly as much time with rock & roll, and not just the operatic pop of his fellow Traveling Wilbury Roy Orbison, either. He cranks through Chuck Berry's "Let It Rock," slides into the silken harmonies of the Everly Brothers on "So Sad," and grooves through Don Covay's "Mercy, Mercy." These are the cuts that stick the closest to the original hit recordings. When Lynne tackles Rodgers & Hammerstein ("If I Loved You"), Rodgers & Hart ("Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"), Fain & Webster ("Love Is a Many Splendored Thing"), and Chaplin ("Smile"), he breaks the song down to its melodic basics then builds up candied, layered arrangements that are distinctly his own, suggesting the gorgeous cascades of sound that were the signature of prime ELO. Indeed, when these sweet reinterpretations are combined with the straight-ahead rockers, Long Wave adds up to a blueprint in reverse for Lynne; by going to back to his beginnings, he winds up figuring out why he went in the direction he did.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer - Charles Aznavour, Composer, Lyricist - Marc Mann, Strings - Jeff Lynne, Producer, Drums, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Vibraphone, Mixing Engineer, Bass, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Background Vocal, Vocal - Steve Jay, Tambourine, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Dan Gerbarg, Mastering Engineer - Herbert Krelzmer, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 2012 Daft As A Brush, Inc. under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer - Richard Rogers, Composer, Lyricist - Oscar Hammerstein, Composer, Lyricist - Marc Mann, Strings - Jeff Lynne, Producer, Drums, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Vibraphone, Mixing Engineer, Bass, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Background Vocal, Vocal - Steve Jay, Tambourine, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Dan Gerbarg, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2012 Daft As A Brush, Inc. under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Don Everly, Composer, Lyricist - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer - Marc Mann, Strings - Jeff Lynne, Producer, Drums, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Vibraphone, Mixing Engineer, Bass, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Background Vocal, Vocal - Steve Jay, Tambourine, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Dan Gerbarg, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2012 Daft As A Brush, Inc. under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Ronald Dean Miller, Composer, Lyricist - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer - Don Covay, Composer, Lyricist - Marc Mann, Strings - Jeff Lynne, Producer, Drums, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Vibraphone, Mixing Engineer, Bass, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Background Vocal, Vocal - Steve Jay, Tambourine, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Dan Gerbarg, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2012 Daft As A Brush, Inc. under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Joe Melson, Composer, Lyricist - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer - ROY ORBISON, Composer, Lyricist - Marc Mann, Strings - Jeff Lynne, Producer, Drums, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Vibraphone, Mixing Engineer, Bass, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Background Vocal, Vocal - Steve Jay, Tambourine, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Dan Gerbarg, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2012 Daft As A Brush, Inc. under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer - Richard Rodgers, Composer, Lyricist - Lorenz Hart, Composer, Lyricist - Marc Mann, Strings - Jeff Lynne, Producer, Drums, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Vibraphone, Mixing Engineer, Bass, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Background Vocal, Vocal - Steve Jay, Tambourine, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Dan Gerbarg, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2012 Daft As A Brush, Inc. under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer - Marc Mann, Strings - Jeff Lynne, Producer, Drums, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Vibraphone, Mixing Engineer, Bass, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Background Vocal, Vocal - Charlie Chaplin, Composer, Lyricist - John Turner, Composer, Lyricist - Geoffrey Parsons, Composer, Lyricist - Steve Jay, Tambourine, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Dan Gerbarg, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2012 Daft As A Brush, Inc. under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer - Harry Warren, Composer, Lyricist - Mack Gordon, Composer, Lyricist - Marc Mann, Strings - Jeff Lynne, Producer, Drums, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Vibraphone, Mixing Engineer, Bass, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Background Vocal, Vocal - Steve Jay, Tambourine, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Dan Gerbarg, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2012 Daft As A Brush, Inc. under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer - Paul Francis Webster, Composer, Lyricist - Sammy Fain, Composer, Lyricist - Marc Mann, Strings - Jeff Lynne, Producer, Drums, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Vibraphone, Mixing Engineer, Bass, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Background Vocal, Vocal - Steve Jay, Tambourine, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Dan Gerbarg, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2012 Daft As A Brush, Inc. under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer - Chuck Berry, Composer, Lyricist - Marc Mann, Strings - Jeff Lynne, Producer, Drums, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Vibraphone, Mixing Engineer, Bass, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Background Vocal, Vocal - Steve Jay, Tambourine, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Dan Gerbarg, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2012 Daft As A Brush, Inc. under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer - Charles Trenet, Composer, Lyricist - Jack Lawrence, Composer, Lyricist - Marc Mann, Strings - Jeff Lynne, Producer, Drums, Guitar, Keyboards, Piano, Vibraphone, Mixing Engineer, Bass, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Background Vocal, Vocal - Steve Jay, Tambourine, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer - Dan Gerbarg, Mastering Engineer
(P) 2012 Daft As A Brush, Inc. under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
Album review
When Jeff Lynne was growing up, he listened to music on longwave radio, soaking up all the sounds coming through the big radio in the living room. His 2012 tribute to these days, appropriately called Long Wave, is a far-reaching salute to the glory days of pop in the years before the Beatles. It's too easy to peg this as a standards album, a designation that isn't quite accurate. Lynne may cover many show tunes along with '50s favorites of big-band vocalists but he spends nearly as much time with rock & roll, and not just the operatic pop of his fellow Traveling Wilbury Roy Orbison, either. He cranks through Chuck Berry's "Let It Rock," slides into the silken harmonies of the Everly Brothers on "So Sad," and grooves through Don Covay's "Mercy, Mercy." These are the cuts that stick the closest to the original hit recordings. When Lynne tackles Rodgers & Hammerstein ("If I Loved You"), Rodgers & Hart ("Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"), Fain & Webster ("Love Is a Many Splendored Thing"), and Chaplin ("Smile"), he breaks the song down to its melodic basics then builds up candied, layered arrangements that are distinctly his own, suggesting the gorgeous cascades of sound that were the signature of prime ELO. Indeed, when these sweet reinterpretations are combined with the straight-ahead rockers, Long Wave adds up to a blueprint in reverse for Lynne; by going to back to his beginnings, he winds up figuring out why he went in the direction he did.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:27:15
- Main artists: Jeff Lynne
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Legacy Recordings
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
(P) 2012 Daft As A Brush, Inc. under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment
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