Mik's violin intro is the cherry on top of a deliciously gooey multi-layer chocolate cake of a production that also sees ELO's first use of the strange (and very 70's) voice-distorting instrument, the Vocoder, rumbling basso vocals that punctaute a truly inspired chorus ('You got me runnin', you got me searchin'') and enough hooks to set off another Cod War, were the song to be employed as part of Britain's f ishing fleet! (Or as Q magazine said recently, doesn't the man ever write B-sides?). Originally to have been titled Dead End Street, which also crops up later in the song, lyrically and musically it's the antithesis of 1975's Evil Woman, and was a perfect excuse for Jeff to show off all the tricks he'd leant in between. "The side's best moment comes in the shape of what was to become one of the band's anthems, namely Sweet Talkin' Woman. Jeff Lynne (JTimothy White's Rock Stars: Jeff Lynne's Musical Chairs) And I started again, I rewrote the words very quickly, in about an hour and put new, put all new backing vocals on and sang it again." And then, came in the next day, listened to it, and said, 'Wipe it.' Wiped all these backing vocals and everything. And I tried it, finished it, did all the backing vocals, took about, y'know, a whole day to sing all the backing parts. " Sweet Talkin' Woman had a whole different set of lyrics, actually. Neil Frost (1987 - Face The Music fanzine #3) Take, for example, the phrase 'communication breakdown all around' in Sweet Talkin' Woman." Clearly, they're there purely because they fit - and nicely too, it must be said. In the former, there's an 'open road that leads nowhere', but in the latter he is clearly begging her to come back: 'You got me runnin', you got me searchin'.' Despite the sometimes simple world Jeff paints for us, he has on occasion used 'big' words where usually shorter ones may be. " Evil Woman has become the antithesis of Sweet Talkin' Woman. He re-wrote the lyrics, changed the title and Sweet Talkin' Woman became one of our biggest single hits."īev Bevan (1980 - The Electric Light Orchestra Story)
They were nice vocals, but Jeff had been thinking about them and felt they weren't quite right. 'Wipe it off and start again.' Mack sat there behind his massive sound desk and in his unflappable way wiped clean all the vocal tracks from the tape. 'Absolutely great.' 'Well, I don't like it,' said Jeff. The next morning Jeff came in and asked Mack, our sound engineer, how it sounded. " Sweet Talkin' Woman was originally Dead End Street and we spent two days recording the vocals until they were just right. "Tour or no tour, Out Of The Blue continues to sell at a consistent pace, already producing two hit singles: Turn To Stone and the current Sweet Talkin' Woman." The multi-tracked vocals add a powerful choral effect." The second single from this consistent group's Out Of The Blue double LP is another catchy rocker characterized by semi-classical elements. "Originally called Dead End Street but we changed it when Jeff re-wrote the lyrics."īev Bevan (1977 - Japanese Out Of The Blue LP liner notes (United Artists GXG 25/26)) Owen Gleiberman (NovemThe Michigan Daily review of Out Of The Blue) "Other completely mechanized cuts include Sweet Talkin' Woman, Jungle and Birmingham Blues." The melody is a direct rip off of Sweet Talkin' Woman and the lyrics to the opening verse are remarkably similar: "I was walking down a one way street Just a looking for someone to meet One woman who was looking for a man." The real irony of this is that in the mid-1980s Huey Lewis successfully won a lawsuit against Ray Parker Jr., claiming that Parker's song Ghostbusters was a rip off of the Huey Lewis and the News song I Want A New Drug. Robert John "Mutt" Lange inadvertently ripped off this song when he wrote the Huey Lewis and the News song Do You Believe In Love for their 1982 Picture This album. The vocoder section has the vocoder pushed way down into the mix, making it sound as if the violin is "saying" the lyric. The vocoder section is roughly cut into the song and on some recordings has a clearly different fidelity to the rest of the track. The vocoder says "sweet talkin' woman" four times in this song at the marks, , and. Electric Light Orchestra - Sweet Talkin' Woman
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