The Move

I came late to The Move. Like a lot of people, I'm guessing, my first intro to them was through Cheap Trick's California Man and ELO's Do Ya, but I didn't take the time to dig into the history of the songs until many years later. Although, when it came out, I did notice that ELO's Greatest Hits album didn't include Do Ya, and I always wondered why. At the time I supposed it was because they just didn't like the song.

I wanted a little Move to get my week kick started. I only have one Move LP, Message from the Country (1971), the title track of which is a Jeff Lynne composition. There were three releases prior to Message - The Move (1968), Looking On (1970), and Shazam (1970).