"Do Ya"

In some ways, Electric Light Orchestra formed out of a band called the Move.  For Christmas last year, I got a compilation album of the Move (Magnetic Waves of Sound: The Best of the Move), and I've been listening to it fairly regularly.  One of the tracks is an earlier recording of "Do Ya" (the Move version includes a question mark:  "Do Ya?"), and I recently noticed a small difference between the two.  In the Move version, two of the lines are "They come a-runnin' just to get a look / Just to feel, to touch her long black veil."  In the ELO version, one word has been changed so that these lines are "They come a-runnin' just to get a look / Just to feel, to touch her long black hair."  This probably isn't a very significant difference, but I thought I'd note it all the same.

For what it's worth, Jeff Lynne comments on the two versions of the song in this interview (starting at ~23:28).

"Little Town Flirt"

I recently learned the bass part for the cover of Del Shannon's "Little Town Flirt" that's included as a bonus track on the CD re-issue of Discovery.  I wrote it out in notation and put the chords in above the staff, but - as always - there's the disclaimer that I may have something wrong.

Looking into the song reminded me of some old notes I'd forgotten about, and I also found a few new things.

"Around" and "by" in the line "She plays around with ev'ry guy that goes by" are sung with melismas (E D E D C and A B A B A B A G respectively), musically giving a sense of breadth for "around" and of movement for "by."  "Apart" in the line "When she starts to tear it apart" is sung with a melisma (E C A) for a sense of the word's meaning, and "go" in the line "That's when she'll let you go" is sung with a melisma (C D) for a sense of movement, although more metaphorical.

All of these features are also in Del Shannon's original, although some of the articulations are a bit different.