“Can't Get It Out Of My Head” by Electric Light Orchestra

"Can't Get It Out of My Head" follows the "Eldorado Overture" on Eldorado, the fourth Electric Light Orchestra album, which came out in September 1974, and it went out as a single that November. It's Jeff Lynne's show: he wrote it, sang it, played guitar and Moog and produced it, with Richard Tandy on piano and Moog, Michael d'Albuquerque on bass and Bev Bevan on drums and percussion, and the whole thing floats by like a half-remembered dream.

America was where it caught on. It climbed to number 9 there, giving ELO a top 10 single in the States for the first time, and did plenty to put ELO on the map. In the UK neither the single nor the album charted, and it took the 1978 ELO EP, where it led off the four tracks, to get it to 34.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.