STUCK IN THE VINYL AGAIN - ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA - THE THIRD DAY

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Good Black Friday morning, morning people and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again . Today we are overjoyed to celebrate the 78th Birthday of English drummer, Bev Bevan, best known for his work in the band Electric Light Orchestra and it's sequel ELO Part Two. Happy Birthday Bev ! With him in mind, we spotlight ELO's third studio album, On The Third Day. The LP was released  November 1973 on the United Artists label and produced by co founder, Jeff Lynne. It reached #289 in Japan, #52 on the Billboard 200, #46 in Australia, #40 in Canada, and #31on the Cash Box. Two singles were released frond the 9 song album ; "Showdown" (#53 Hot 100, #51 Cash Box, #47 Canada, #28 Dutch Top 40, #25 Netherlands, #9 Norway)  and "Ma-Ma-Ma Belle" (#22 UK). Marc Bolan plays leads guitar on the latter track.

1. "Ocean Breakup / King of the Universe" 4:05

2. "Bluebird is Dead" 4:25

3. "Oh No Not Susan" 2:52
4. "New World Rising / Ocean Breakup" (Reprise) 4:40

5. "Showdown" (Only on the original U.S. release and subsequent reissues) 4:15

Side two

6. "Daybreaker" 3:50

7. "Ma-Ma-Ma Belle" 3:52

8. "Dreaming of 4000" (listed as "I'm Only Dreaming" on the cassette tape version) 5:00

9. "In the Hall of the Mountain King" Edvard Grieg 6:35

Jeff Lynne – vocals, guitars

Bev Bevan – drums, percussion

Richard Tandy – piano, Moog, clavinet, Wurlitzer electric piano

Mike de Albuquerque – bass, backing vocals

Mike Edwards – cello

Mik Kaminski – violin (on tracks 1–4)

Ted Blight – cello (credited on the UK pressing, but said to be a figment of Lynne's imagination)

Additional personnel

Wilf Gibson – violin (on tracks 5–9)

Colin Walker – cello (on tracks 5–9)

Marc Bolan - co-lead guitar (Ma Ma Ma Belle, Dreaming of 4000, Everyone's Born to Die