Can't Get It Out Of My Head
	Produced by Jeff Lynne
	Released on June 1974
	US CHART POSITION #9 (charted Dec. 21, 1974 for 16 weeks)
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T his song includes the lyric "walking on a wave's chicane," which I haven't been able to get out of my head. You see, "chicane" is the same as chicanery (i.e., trickery), so the line doesn't hold water. Oh well, it's a great track, arguably the best of the early hits. The flip side is the suitably self-important (in name) "Illusions In G Major" -- suitable insofar as the album it came from (Eldorado) was subtitled a symphony. This was the first ELO single to break the US Top 10. (A later addition: I'm listening to the ELO Part II Greatest Hits Live please don't sue our ass for using the name ELO disc, and the lyric sung here is "standing on a wave she came," which makes way more sense. So maybe the original line in the lyric sleeve was a typo, or Kelly Groucutt owns a dictionary.)

TRACK LISTING

1. CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD    (Jeff Lynne)
2. ILLUSIONS IN G MAJOR    (Jeff Lynne)

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