Research an album

Researching an album

what i chose to research

i have chosen to research the album "out of the blue" which was the seventh album to be recorded with a studio album By Electric Light Orchestra
the album fits into the genre of 'British Rock' and was released in october 1977.

The album was wrote and produced by the star of the band, Jeff Lynn. it took him approximately three and a half weeks to write all the songs on the album.
The album ended up selling about 10 million copies word wide.

The album managed to reach:
number 4 in the US billboard
number 4 in the UK album charts

the highest they every got was number 2 on the canadian and Swedish album charts.

in 2007 the album was reissued into the UK album chart, where it reached number 18.

Information on the studio

the studio used was Musicland studios which was located in munich, Germany.
it was create by an italian producer called Giorgio Moroder within the late 1960s and closed in the beginning of the 1990s, this was due to the nearby subway effecting the quality of production.
throughout the 1970s and 80s it was very popular with big named artists such as 'Queen' , 'The rolling stones' and 'Led Zeppelin'.

Information on the tracks

part of the album tells a story of the weather and how it can change peoples mood, the sequence ends with a sunny day within the song "Mr Blue sky". The song was wrote while Jeff Lynn listened to a down pour of rain the was outside his Swiss chalet.
"Mr Blue Sky"  managed to hit number 6 in the UK singles chart and Number 35 in the US
for the last couple of the track there is a vocated segment, very often people would interoperate this as being "mister blue sky" however it has been confirmed that it actually says "please turn me over". this would have been because the album was first released to vinyl rather than CD.
within the song there is an instrument that is mistaken for being a cow bell, however the band decided to used a fire extinguisher for this unique sound that can be heard.

People involved.

there were seven people with the band:

Jeff Lynne-  he was the Lead vocals, backing vocals, electric piano and slide guitars.

Bev Bevan- he was the drums and everything percussion. On the track "mr blue sky" he played the fire extinguisher.

Richard Tandy- Electric keyboard and electric guitar

Kelly Groucutt- backing vocals, bass guitar and percussion.

Mik Kaminski- violin

Hugh McDowell- cello

Melvyn Gale- Cello

There were three people involved in production:

Jeff Lynne- he was the producer, he was also involved in the orchestral and choral arrangement.

Reinhold mack (most commonly known as Mack)- he was the sound engineer

Louis Clark- He was the one the conducted the orchestra, he was also involved in the arrangement for the orchestra.

comparison to my recording

In my first recordings you can hear thing like background noises and the wind however within these tracks they sound very professional. you cannot hear anything that wasn't intently put in. for example sounds such as the fire extinguisher were intended within their recordings where as in mine, the cars in the background were not internal.
they probably used professional microphones where as in mine i used a hand held recorder so the quality of sound isn't to the same standard.