A single on the album was a cover version of Chuck Berry's " Roll Over Beethoven". The album, ELO 2, was finished and released, but was not as well liked as the first. Jeff Lynne took over leadership, and McDowell, Kaminski and Gale joined. Roy Wood decided to leave ELO partway through the recording of the second album. The Move disbanded, and Electric Light Orchestra became a full-time group. In time, ELO's music became more popular than The Move's had been. The band's first single was titled "10538 Overture". Mistaken later for the title, the album appeared in America as No Answer.
When nobody answered, "No Answer" was written down. They phoned ELO's British label to ask for the title. When the album was released in the United States, their American record label, United Artists, did not know the album was titled after the group. It was released with that name in the United Kingdom. Their first album was titled Electric Light Orchestra. They made the most of recording studio technology, including multitrack recording and overdubbing. Wood played nearly all the non-rock instruments on their first album. While The Move had added touches of classical music to their pop hits, Wood and Lynne wanted to blend rock music and classical music more closely. The band began as a side project of another band, The Move, by musicians Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne. The orchestra's name is a joke on " electric light" and a "Light Orchestra" (an orchestra that plays light music). Hugh McDowell, Mik Kaminski, and Melvyn Gale played violin and cello. Other members included Richard Tandy on keyboards, Bev Bevan on drums, Mike D'Albuquerque and later Kelly Groucutt on bass guitar. Lynne wrote and sang most of their songs. Their leader was musician and songwriter Jeff Lynne. The Electric Light Orchestra, also known as ELO, were a popular English rock band from the 1970s and early 1980s. Jeff Lynne, The Move, ELO Part II, The Orchestra, The Traveling Wilburys, The Idle Race, Olivia Newton-John, Rosie Vela
Harvest, Warner Bros., United Artists, Jet, Columbia, Epic, Legacy, Sony BMG ELO performing live during the Time tour.