One Summer Dream
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"One Summer Dream" is a song written and performed by the rock group Electric Light Orchestra
which made its first appearance on the band's fifth album, Face the Music, as the last track off the album. It also appeared on the box sets, Afterglow
and Flashback
.
It was released as a single with the hit single Mr. Blue Sky
as the a-side in 1978. The album version includes an orchestra
intro
but part of it was cut for the single. One Summer Dream (on different singles with Mr. Blue Sky) has a fading difference for unknown reasons.
"The seven ELO members outdo themselves, however, on One Summer Dream, a beautiful and evocative tune sung touchingly by Lynne. A trifle sentimental perhaps, but lyrically and musically, it displays more emotion (not to mention pure ability) than one ordinarily hears from a rock group."
Charley Walters (January 1, 1976 Rolling Stone #203)
Electric Light Orchestra
Electric Light Orchestra were a British rock group from Birmingham who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001. ELO were formed to accommodate Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne's desire to create modern rock and pop songs with classical overtones...
which made its first appearance on the band's fifth album, Face the Music, as the last track off the album. It also appeared on the box sets, Afterglow
Afterglow (Electric Light Orchestra box set)
Afterglow was a box set compilation by Electric Light Orchestra released in 1990 with liner notes by music critic and editor Ira Robbins of Trouser Press fame...
and Flashback
Flashback (Electric Light Orchestra box set)
Flashback is a box set compilation by Electric Light Orchestra. See also: Afterglow.-History:In 2000, Jeff Lynne found a new impetus to work on the music of his old band and returned to the recording studio to work on an ELO project for the first time in some 15 years just prior to the comeback...
.
It was released as a single with the hit single Mr. Blue Sky
Mr. Blue Sky
"Mr. Blue Sky" is a song by English rock group Electric Light Orchestra, featured on the band's seventh studio album Out of the Blue . Written and produced by frontman Jeff Lynne, the song forms the fourth and final track of the "Concerto for a Rainy Day" suite, on side three of the original double...
as the a-side in 1978. The album version includes an orchestra
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
intro
Introduction (music)
In music, the introduction is a passage or section which opens a movement or a separate piece. In popular music this is often abbreviated as intro...
but part of it was cut for the single. One Summer Dream (on different singles with Mr. Blue Sky) has a fading difference for unknown reasons.
"The seven ELO members outdo themselves, however, on One Summer Dream, a beautiful and evocative tune sung touchingly by Lynne. A trifle sentimental perhaps, but lyrically and musically, it displays more emotion (not to mention pure ability) than one ordinarily hears from a rock group."
Charley Walters (January 1, 1976 Rolling Stone #203)