Electric Light Orchestra-Eldorado: A Symphony By The Electric Light Orchestra (1974)


 

Artist: Electric Light Orchestra

Title: Eldorado: A Symphony By The Electric Light Orchestra

Label: United Artists

Format: 8-Track

Catalog Number: UA EA-399G

Year of Release: 1974

Country and Year of Edition: US 1974

Sell Price: $5.99

Sell Date: 3/29/26

Condition: VG+/VG+

Discogs Last Sold: 1/17/26 VG+/VG+ $4.99

Low: $2.30

Median: $4.98

Average: $4.25

High: $5.99

Current low price: $3.86 VG/VG

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 4

Have/Want: 47/60

Where Sold: Fort Worth, TX

Time It Took To Sell:  2 years 

Where and When Buught: Ebay lot

Gwiz-gau Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go: No

Eldorado was one of those solid ELO's records I never had until sort've recently.  Now I've got it several times over on vinyl and 8-track from different lot purchases.  I was fine to have "Can't Get It Out Of My Head" on the greatest hits album with the medal that skipped the Discovery album entirely to focus on the prior records up until Out Of The Blue.  This 1974 concept album loosely utilized a Wizard of Oz theme on the cover which peaks with a string frenzy at the end of the record.  It did go Gold in the US in the year following it's release but never rose to Platinum traction the way their later releases from the 70's did.

Since I only heard Eldorado a couple times start to finish before listening this morning to my remaining 8-track copy in headphones, I wasn't particularly married to the track order.  The only song order swap was "Illusions In G Major" before "Nobody's Child" ends track 3 in part and opens track 4 in it's entirety.  "Boy Blue" emerged as my favorite track on the album and the right ear guitar sounds good in headphones as does the Rhodes right after on "Loredo Tornado." The wine flows like water in "Poor Boy." "Nobody's Child" has an "Across The Universe" sort of verse out of the Lennon playbook.

Hey! Boy Blue is back!

FOR FURTHER REVIEW: 

Soundtrack-Xanadu (1980)

Jeff Lynne's ELO @ Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 9/17/24

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