Can't Get It Out of My Head

"Can't Get It Out of My Head"
Single by Electric Light Orchestra from the album Eldorado
B-side	"Illusions in G Major"
Released	November, 1974
Format	7"
Recorded	1974 De Lane Lea Studios
Genre	Classic rock, Symphonic Rock
Length	4:21 (LP length) 3.07 (single edit)
Label	Jet Records & United Artists Records
Producer	Jeff Lynne
Electric Light Orchestra singles chronology
"Ma-Ma-Ma Belle" (1974) "Can't Get It Out of My Head" (1974) "Boy Blue" (1975)
Flashback track listing
"Eldorado Overture" (9) "Can't Get It Out of My Head" (10) "Eldorado" (11)

Can't Get It Out of My Head is a song by Electric Light Orchestra.

First released on the band's fourth album, Eldorado, in July of 1974, the song is the second track on the album and follows "Eldorado Overture." The song was released in November of that same year as a single.

The song became the band's first top ten single in the US and helped boost public awareness of the band in America, however, back in the UK the single and LP failed to chart. In 1978 the song was included on a four-track ELO EP (UK release) reaching #34 on the UK charts.

The song has appeared on many compilation albums, and a live cover version by Fountains of Wayne appeared on their 2006 album Out Of State Plates.

The song was recently covered by the rock supergroup Velvet Revolver on their album Libertad. In 2006, the popular Fox teenage drama, The OC, featured a special cover version of the song in an episode, as well as commissioning the indie artist John Paul White to cover the track for Music From The OC: Mix 6 "Covering Our Tracks".

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