Jeff Lynne - Long Wave, Full abum (2012) HQ

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00:00 "She"
02:41 "If I Loved You"
05:03 "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)"
07:36 "Mercy Mercy"
10:30 "Running Scared"
12:40 "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"
15:01 "Smile"
17:33 "At Last"
20:07 "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing"
22:38 "Let It Rock"
24:33 "Beyond the Sea"

Long Wave, the more interesting and surprising of the two new albums, shows Lynne fondly paying tribute to the songs that shaped him. In remaking the likes of If I Loved You and Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered in his own musical image, he has accomplished what few of his standards-covering contemporaries have managed: made the originals beside the point.
If singers like Ella Fitzgerald and BIng Crosby have already tackled the Richard Rogers songs you're taking a whack at, or Roy Orbison has already sent chills up your spine with his own Running Scared, the most sensible option is to make them sound like Jeff Lynne songs. So break out the muddy, metronomic backbeats and the multiple guitar overdubs and celebrate.

Lynne doesn't limit his trip down memory lane to the pre-rock n' roll era. Apart from Orbison's pocket opera, Chuck Berry's Let It Rock and Don Covay's Mercy Mercy are tossed into the mix, sounding right at home.

The whole thing could have been a pointless exercise in the wrong hands, but Lynne brings enough unpretentious charm to the project to make it endlessly endearing. No one can touch Bobby Darin on Beyond the Sea, for example, but Lynne's joyous version actually brings something to the table.