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Aug 17, 2006, 09:53 PM
I found an incredible website which lists the songs Jeff Lynne has been involved in in his carreer.
http://www.jefflynnesongs.com/jlworks0.htm
I put this here at Crackerbox Palace because there is a lot of information on the work he did with George.
Information on recording details but the best to me is that there is also with most of the songs - all those which are coloured blue - a collection of comments from the press and from people involved with the songs.
Like, you will find comments from Dhani, Jeff ofcourse, Jim Keltner, Tom Petty and so on...
Some of those comments you will have seen before, but there is quite some stuf which will be new to each one of you.
It has Cloud 9, Brainwashed, the Wilbury albums, the Beatles project, and the albums Jeff worked on like from the fellow Wilbury members, Del Shannon and many more.
It is a treasure and I have already spent a few hours reading.
This is how it works....
The information available is at those songs which have a blue print at "song title" or "details". Click there and the info will show up.
A few examples;
Traveling Wilburys - Run That Body Down
"Harrison did tap Lynne, however, to help with a Traveling Wilburys anthology, tentatively titled Maximum Traveling, according to one report. The compilation allegedly includes a cover of Paul Simon's Run That Body Down and three tracks featuring the late Del Shannon as the fifth Wilbury."
"Well, um, the inspiration was really, sort of... [cough] ... it was sort of... Me mother died, and then Roy Orbison died, and Del Shannon died... Y'know, but it was Roy Orbison that actually [unintelligible] and died just then. But it was a real emotional kind of song, Now You're Gone. It's also like a song about love, which it is. And it's also a song about loss, y'know. And, the reason I used Indian, uh, people, who are brilliant. They're all classical Indian musicians and they're fantastic. Just to watch 'em perform is brilliant. Uh, Because I went to a concert in England, an opera by Ravi Shankar and I heard these singers and... On the one part of the song, I thought 'This is... I gotta have a solo here, like a piano or a guitar.' And I thought, 'No, I want something really special.' And I heard these singers and I said 'That's it. That's what I want.' And they came and they sang on it. They just sang a raga across the ending, which to me was really beautiful. Gave me, um, a big thrill."
Jeff Lynne (June 23, 1990 - Rockline)
Traveling Wilburys - Winged Victory
"Roy offered to those wanting to know who wrote the songs on Vol. 1 [sic] was his statement that the lead singer on each cut wrote that particular song. While Bob Dylan had four songs, Roy had only one, because his solo, Winged Victory, based upon William Blake's The Sick Rose, was thrown out"
Ellis Amburn (1990 Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story)
"The other one that makes me cry every time I hear it, and probably always will, is Stuck Inside A Cloud. That's one of his older one's that he used to play for me all the time. It had a magical, misty, very English sort of quality to it. We would be sitting in the studio late at night before shutting everything down, and I'd say, 'Hey, George, play Cloud for me,' and he would put it on and sing along with it. It didn't have drums on it for many years, just these cheesy little keyboard samples from his E2 sampler, but for some reason it just takes me right to Friar Park every time I hear it."
Jim Keltner (December, 2002 - moderndrummer.com)
Beatles - Now And Then/Miss You
The song was attempted, with Jeff Lynne doing some clean up of the original John Lennon demo, and the remaining Beatles doing some basic work on the track, but the work was eventually aborted. There remains some confusion as to the actual name of the song, because the title isn't apparent based upon the chorus alone and this has caused it to be referred to by different names.
"[This song] goes by the working titles of both Missing You and Now And Then, based on the fundamental lyrics of the song ('Now and then, I miss you.'). 'You can tell he's written it to Yoko,' notes [Marc] Mann, 'but it sort of fit right in with this whole reunion thing. Almost like sometimes he misses the other guys, and sometimes they miss him.' ......(Much more there)
http://www.jefflynnesongs.com/jlworks0.htm
I put this here at Crackerbox Palace because there is a lot of information on the work he did with George.
Information on recording details but the best to me is that there is also with most of the songs - all those which are coloured blue - a collection of comments from the press and from people involved with the songs.
Like, you will find comments from Dhani, Jeff ofcourse, Jim Keltner, Tom Petty and so on...
Some of those comments you will have seen before, but there is quite some stuf which will be new to each one of you.
It has Cloud 9, Brainwashed, the Wilbury albums, the Beatles project, and the albums Jeff worked on like from the fellow Wilbury members, Del Shannon and many more.
It is a treasure and I have already spent a few hours reading.
This is how it works....
The information available is at those songs which have a blue print at "song title" or "details". Click there and the info will show up.
A few examples;
Traveling Wilburys - Run That Body Down
"Harrison did tap Lynne, however, to help with a Traveling Wilburys anthology, tentatively titled Maximum Traveling, according to one report. The compilation allegedly includes a cover of Paul Simon's Run That Body Down and three tracks featuring the late Del Shannon as the fifth Wilbury."
"Well, um, the inspiration was really, sort of... [cough] ... it was sort of... Me mother died, and then Roy Orbison died, and Del Shannon died... Y'know, but it was Roy Orbison that actually [unintelligible] and died just then. But it was a real emotional kind of song, Now You're Gone. It's also like a song about love, which it is. And it's also a song about loss, y'know. And, the reason I used Indian, uh, people, who are brilliant. They're all classical Indian musicians and they're fantastic. Just to watch 'em perform is brilliant. Uh, Because I went to a concert in England, an opera by Ravi Shankar and I heard these singers and... On the one part of the song, I thought 'This is... I gotta have a solo here, like a piano or a guitar.' And I thought, 'No, I want something really special.' And I heard these singers and I said 'That's it. That's what I want.' And they came and they sang on it. They just sang a raga across the ending, which to me was really beautiful. Gave me, um, a big thrill."
Jeff Lynne (June 23, 1990 - Rockline)
Traveling Wilburys - Winged Victory
"Roy offered to those wanting to know who wrote the songs on Vol. 1 [sic] was his statement that the lead singer on each cut wrote that particular song. While Bob Dylan had four songs, Roy had only one, because his solo, Winged Victory, based upon William Blake's The Sick Rose, was thrown out"
Ellis Amburn (1990 Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story)
"The other one that makes me cry every time I hear it, and probably always will, is Stuck Inside A Cloud. That's one of his older one's that he used to play for me all the time. It had a magical, misty, very English sort of quality to it. We would be sitting in the studio late at night before shutting everything down, and I'd say, 'Hey, George, play Cloud for me,' and he would put it on and sing along with it. It didn't have drums on it for many years, just these cheesy little keyboard samples from his E2 sampler, but for some reason it just takes me right to Friar Park every time I hear it."
Jim Keltner (December, 2002 - moderndrummer.com)
Beatles - Now And Then/Miss You
The song was attempted, with Jeff Lynne doing some clean up of the original John Lennon demo, and the remaining Beatles doing some basic work on the track, but the work was eventually aborted. There remains some confusion as to the actual name of the song, because the title isn't apparent based upon the chorus alone and this has caused it to be referred to by different names.
"[This song] goes by the working titles of both Missing You and Now And Then, based on the fundamental lyrics of the song ('Now and then, I miss you.'). 'You can tell he's written it to Yoko,' notes [Marc] Mann, 'but it sort of fit right in with this whole reunion thing. Almost like sometimes he misses the other guys, and sometimes they miss him.' ......(Much more there)