Do Ya (The Move song)

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"Do Ya"
Do ya move.jpg
Single by The Move
A-side "California Man"
B-side "No Time" (UK)
ReleasedJune 1972 (US)
13 September 1974 (UK) [1]
Recorded19 December 1971 at Philips Studios, London
Genre Glam rock [2]
Length4:06
3:16 (1974 UK single)
Label United Artists (US)
Harvest (UK)
Songwriter(s) Jeff Lynne
Producer(s) Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne
The Move singles chronology
"California Man"
(1972)		"Do Ya"
(1972)

"Do Ya" is a song written by Jeff Lynne, that was originally recorded by The Move, which became a hit for the Electric Light Orchestra (led by Lynne, ELO originally being a side project of The Move) in 1977.

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Release

Written by Jeff Lynne in 1971, it was one of two songs featured on the B-side of the UK hit "California Man" credited to The Move (the other was Roy Wood's "Ella James"). In the US the B-side proved to be more popular than the A and so the song became The Move's only hit in the US albeit a minor one (number 93 on the Hot 100 chart). [3] The song was originally titled "Look Out Baby, There's a Plane A Comin'" [4] (which is sung by Wood at the end of the song). The song was later included on the 2005 remastered version of the Message from the Country album, in both the original single version and an alternate take.

The song was recorded on the same multireel tapes alongside the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) tracks "From the Sun to the World" and "In Old England Town", the two songs that Wood appeared on from the ELO 2 album.

Record World called it "a highly exciting tune complete with Beatlish harmonies and riffs." [5]

Chart position

Chart (1972)Peak
Position
US Billboard Hot 100 [3] 93

Electric Light Orchestra version

"Do Ya"
Do ya.jpg
Single by Electric Light Orchestra
from the album A New World Record
B-side "Nightrider"
ReleasedJanuary 1977 (US) [6]
Recorded1976 Musicland Studios, Munich
Genre Power pop [7]
Length3:47
Label Jet/United Artists
Songwriter(s) Jeff Lynne
Producer(s) Jeff Lynne
Electric Light Orchestra singles chronology
"Rockaria!"
(1977)		"Do Ya"
(1977)		"Telephone Line"
(1977)
A New World Record track listing
9 tracks
Side one
  1. "Tightrope"
  2. "Telephone Line"
  3. "Rockaria!"
  4. "Mission (A World Record)"
Side two
  1. "So Fine"
  2. "Livin' Thing"
  3. "Above the Clouds"
  4. "Do Ya"
  5. "Shangri-La"

Jeff Lynne version

Jeff Lynne re-recorded the song in his own home studio. It was released on the compilation album Mr. Blue Sky: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra with other re-recorded ELO songs under the ELO name. [21]

Other versions

Former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley covered "Do Ya" on his 1989 solo album Trouble Walkin' . Todd Rundgren recorded the song with his band Utopia on the 1975 live album Another Live , [22] and his 1998 album Somewhere/Anywhere, a collection of unreleased tracks, the title of which is a pun on Rundgen's 1972 release Something/Anything? . Rundgren also performed it with Utopia on the 2019 live DVD/CD release recorded at Chicago Theatre in 2018.

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