What group had the most Top 40 hits without hitting Number One? The Electric Light Orchestra.
Now, what you’ll do with that information is entirely up to you. But use your knowledge for good, not evil.
Well, it’s your turn. Got something you’d like to share? Something awesome? Something profound? Something funny? Or, like me, something useless? It’s Saturday Night Open Thread.
What’s on your mind?
I was just about to say ELP (Emerson, Lake, & Palmer) until you said ELO.
I would have guessed CCR (Creedance Clearwater Revival)
Maybe Anthony Bourdain died from eating some parts unknown in France?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/former-fleetwood-mac-guitarist-danny-kirwan-dead-at-68/ar-AAyqhg0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTvKaLW5bu8
I remember reading someone call ELO “what the Beatles would’ve sounded like in the ‘70s.”. Well maybe, Can’t Get It Out Of My Head sure sounds like a Beatles song.
Badfinger was the Beatles of the 70’s.
Frederick Loewe, who gave us the music to, among other musicals, My Fair Lady and Camelot, was born June 10, 1901, in Berlin. His family moved to the USA in 1942, saving him the trouble of leaving before the Nazis put him in a concentration camp. Here’s Rex Harrison singing my favorite piece from My Fair Lady:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APPfTEv-YxI