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"Eldorado" is the title track from the 1974 album of the same name by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). The song was used as the B-side of the United States single " Boy Blue " in 1975 and later as the flip side to the UK hit single " Wild West Hero " in 1978.
El Dorado is the second of three films directed by Hawks about a sheriff defending his office against belligerent outlaw elements, coming after Rio Bravo (1959) and before Rio Lobo (1970), both also starring Wayne in similar roles. The poem repeated in the film and paraphrased in the theme song is "Eldorado", a ballad poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
Eldorado is the first complete ELO concept album; bandleader Jeff Lynne conceived the storyline before he wrote any music. [2] The plot follows a Walter Mitty-like character who journeys into fantasy worlds via dreams, to escape the disillusionment of his mundane reality. Lynne began to write the album in response to criticisms from his father ...
The concept album Eldorado (1974) saw the first time that an orchestra was used, where previously Lynne would overdub strings. [5] The presence of an orchestra would be a common part of future ELO albums. [5] The 1975 album Face the Music moved away from symphonic concept elements of Eldorado in favor of more radio friendly songs. [6]
"El Dorado" is the second track from English heavy metal band Iron Maiden's 2010 album The Final Frontier. The song is the band's forty-first single, and the only one from the album. The song is the band's forty-first single, and the only one from the album.
In the same year, his 'Holiday Suite' theme was used for the BBC Programme Holiday, and was released as a single. [citation needed] He worked on his first feature film in 1988, The Dawning. Music from the film, with various other TV themes (including The Olympic Track and People like You), was released in 1989 on the Simon May Orchestra album ...
Billy May did the third season's music. Re-recordings of Riddle's music from Batman were issued on one soundtrack LP and a 45 RPM single. There was a "Batmanesque" tone in the soundtrack for Howard Hawks' John Wayne film El Dorado, also scored by Riddle in 1966, due to his continued heavy use of brass.
In 2000 "Eldorado" was adapted as song by the Darkwave band Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows on the album Songs from the inverted Womb and again in 2013 on the album Poetica (All Beauty Sleeps). [citation needed] In 1903, the American writer Ridgely Torrence published his drama El Dorado: A Tragedy, with lines from Poe's poem as an ...