As promised last week, one delivers the most agreeable ‘Sweet Talkin’ Woman’ from Electric Light Orchestra’s 1977 double album: Out Of The Blue.

And a fine album it is too.

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This week I was going to put up ‘Sweet Talkin Woman’ by the Electric Light Orchestra, but due to a recent saturation of ELO and related groups within the musical interlude, I’ve decided to put it off for another week or so.

Instead, we have another of Jeffman’s many favourites, The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band.

Yes, you read that right.

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More Birmingham (UK) grown goodness. Which has seemed to be a trend of late. What with The Move, Electric Light Orchestra, and Wizzard once again.

What’s the common denominator between these three groups?

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If your speakers happen to be broken, then with the amount of the dodgy perms that are on display here you could be forgiven for thinking that it’s a 1981 fourth division football team’s crack at an FA cup final single. All it lacks is Dave Beasant acting the goat somewhere in the background.

But no sir. It is in fact the Electric Light Orchestra with a tune that once again harks back to Jeffman’s whippersnapper days. He was a mere four when this came out.

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Ah. The great Roy Wood. The hirsute Brummy and the creative force behind the legendary Move, the early days of ELO, and of course Wizzard.

Who would’ve thought a barmy barnet and a predeliction for facepainting could’ve gone so far?

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A rare treat, my friends.

‘Let it Be‘ by The Beatles from the 1970 album of the same name. However, this is without Phil Spector’s over-production, which became the familiar version that everybody knows, with its orchestral and choral accompaniment throughout. Something that Paul McCartney objected to from the start.

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Magnificent. That’s all that needs saying.

From the 1976 album, A New World Record, released when Jeffman was a mere one year of age, this takes him back to the Sunday lunchtimes of his childhood and the Jimmy Saville ‘golden oldies’ show on Radio 1, of which this song became a permanent fixture.

Prog rock at its finest, despite Jeff Lynne’s suspect perm/afro.

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The Move’s final recording under that name was 1972’s ‘California Man’.

A harmless pastiche of 1950’s rock ‘n’ roll complete with Teddy Boy clobber and long-haired DAs. Jeff Lynne does a Jerry Lee Lewis impression on the Joanna, whilst Roy Wood arses about with a saxophone.

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When the mighty Move finally dissolved the name after four sterling albums and only two of the original members remaining (Roy Wood and Bev Bevan, from what had initially been a five-piece band); along with third member Jeff Lynne they quickly became the Electric Light Orchestra. One might’ve heard of them.

Not the most interesting beginning to one of my legendary musical interludes, but a bob on jump off point for me to plant this wee gem from E.L.O’s fust album.

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Some see the 1970 film Perfomance as being a modern-masterpiece of art-house cinema. Others see it for the industrial vat of codswallop it actually is.

However, it does have one redeeming moment in the song ‘Memo From Turner’ , sung by a certain Mick Jagger.

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Jeffman has returned from a rather damp holiday, just in time to restore a bit of decorum to this nonsensical device they call the internet.

Firstly, a musical interlude is in order, to calm any nerves that might’ve been frayed during my self-enforced cyberspace exile.

And it has to be said that any song beginning with the lines: “Cast your mind back ten years to the girl whose next to me in school; if I put my hand upon her leg she’d hit me with a rule”; can do no wrong in my eyes.

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Tis the weekend again, and Jeffman’s in a holiday mood. Therefore there will posts-a-plenty this weekend (two, possibly three), so batten down one’s hatches.

In the interim, the mighty Jethro Tull make a welcome return to these shores.

Now who other than the Tull could get away with a song about the demise of the working horse in this once Great Britain? Well, there’s a few others, but it’s the Tull that continually made flirting with such nonsense an artform.

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Wahey! The house band are back.

The Move provide the musical interlude yet again. If I’m displaying a Brummie bias, then shoot me down.

Once again it’s off the their last album, Message From The Country, prior to them becoming ELO, and once again the picture quality can be a little unfortunate in places, but hey, I’m pointing you good people in the direction of some bob on music, so don’t complain.

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This weekend’s Musical Interlude is once again from the mighty Move. It would seem they’re taking up residency as the Not What it Used to Be house band.

Which can’t be a bad thing. They’re brummies - one of your own - and without them we wouldn’t have the joy of Roy Wood and Wizzard’s ‘I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday’ to behold, every single bloody Yuletide.

This 10 carat diamond comes from the 1971 album Message From The Country,  their final album just prior to the three remaining members (Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan) becoming ELO (Electric Light Orchestra).

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In the absence of any video or live footage for the sublime ‘Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited’ this week’s The Move moment is the perennial psych-pop classic ‘Flowers in the Rain’ from their 1968 self-titled debut album. Belter.

Incidentally, The Move come from Jeffman’s hometown of Birmingham, and if you take a swift peek at their original singer, Carl Wayne, sat their on his little stool, you’ll see he has the look about him of a bloke that’s just come off the track at Longbridge.

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Jeffman must apologise for the laxness in the land of not what it used to be this week. We will be back on Monday with Public Transport.

In the mean time take a gander at the Faces. A Nod Is As Good As A Wink…

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Once again the musical interlude is brought to you by those doyens of decadence, the Rolling Stones.

Jeffman apologises for the quality of the video but it’s a rare treat and needs to be seen by as many people as possible, if only for the fact that you may never see a more stoned bunch of individuals, nor a creepier promo vid, in your entire life.

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The Move, indeed. Those psychedelic mods from Jeffman’s hometown of Birmingham. One of the most popular bands of the 60s not to find success in America.

Indeed, it was said of The Move, and I quote: “Without doubt, it was The Beatles, the Stones and The Move in that order in England.”, all-be-it by their own manager.

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