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ELO's Greatest Hits is a compilation by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released 23 November 1979. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Despite being released after the album Discovery , this album omitted the band's most recent hits, " Don't Bring Me Down " and " Shine a Little Love ".
This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (July 2022) ELO performing live during their 1981 Time Tour. From left: Jeff Lynne, Louis Clark (obscured), Kelly Groucutt, Bev Bevan, and Richard Tandy The English rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) recorded over 190 songs from 1971 to 2019. The band's music is characterised by their blending of Beatlesque pop, classical ...
"Don't Bring Me Down" is the band's second-highest-charting hit in the UK, where it peaked at number 3, [5] and their biggest hit in the United States, peaking at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. [6] It also charted well in Canada (number 1) and Australia (number 6). This was the first single by ELO not to include a string section. [7]
Although the biggest hit on the album (also ELO's biggest hit overall) was the rock song "Don't Bring Me Down", the album was noted for its heavy disco influence. Discovery also produced the hits " Shine a Little Love " (their only No. 1 hit on a US singles chart--- Radio & Records (R&R) ), [ 29 ] [ 30 ] " Last Train to London ", " Confusion ...
ELO's Greatest Hits (1979) The Best of ELO (Tellydisc, 1981) Eldorado/Electric Light Orchestra II (cassette only reissue) (1983) A Perfect World of Music (1985) First Movement (1986) All Over the World (1987) The Very Best of The Electric Light Orchestra (Telstar, 1989) The Very Best of The Electric Light Orchestra (Epic, 1990) ELO Classics ...
Originally released exclusively in the band's home market (the UK), the album sold very well, becoming the ELO's first top-ten entry since Dino Records' compilation album The Very Best of the Electric Light Orchestra hit number 4 in 1994. All Over the World sold over 300,000 copies in the UK alone within a year and a half of its release.
The song charted in the Top Ten in both the UK and the US, peaking at number 8 in the UK [8] and number 7 in the US. [9] It was on the Hot 100 for 23 weeks, nearly a full month longer on that chart than any other ELO song. Billboard ranked it as the No. 15 song of 1977. In 1977, the song reached number 1 in New Zealand and Canada.
Classic Rock History critic Brian Kachejian rated "One Summer Dream" as ELO's greatest song, calling it a "jaw-dropping emotionally filled piece of music" and saying that "This is as beautiful as popular music gets. The song stands as the band’s most underrated song and easily one of the most unheralded gems of the 1970s." [5]