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• Jay Brown from CincinnatiA wave chicane is a serpentine curve in the road. Tricky curve or in this case tricky wave.
• M from EarthA chicane is a serpentine curve in a road, which makes sense as a serpentine curve on the crest of a wave.
• Jdove from CaliforniaLooking up "chicane" shows no modern nor archaic use as the foam on a wave.
  The lyrics should be "she came" which sounds close to chicane. Aphrodite was born out of the foam and wave from Uranus semen released by his castration by cronos. Spume is the name for the froth on a wave--NOT chicane. The meaning of chicane has much to do with deceit. Look it up. I therefore do not believe that the lyrics say chicane. "She came" makes sense--not chicane.
• Jack Bauer from Los AngelesMike From Ann Arbor MI: You got the lyric wrong, too. It's, "Walking on a wave's chicane".
• Thomas from Pewaukee, WiThe beginning of the song is a reference to Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love. She was born when Ouranos was castrated and his appendage thrown into the sea. She then walked onto the land from sea foam and the waves. So the personification of love was staring at him and calling his name.
• Peter Haas from RenoThe original lyrics say "I saw the ocean's daughter, walking on a wave's chicane." More recent lyrics websites say "walking on a wave she came." "Chicane" would be the more elegant way to write the song...it refers to the frothy crest of a wave.
• Bob from Eau Claire, WiBratt Pit: You need to listen to the Beatles Revolver album.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 9th 1975, "Can't Get It Out of My Head" by the Electric Light Orchestra peaked at #9 (for 1 week) on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; it had entered the chart on December 15th, 1974 at position #87 and spent 16 weeks on the Top 100...
  Was track two of side one on the group's fourth studio album, 'Eldorado', and the album reached #16 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart.
• Larry from Detroit, MiFirst song I ever slow danced to, 7th grade in 1974, one of my favorite ELO tunes, still evokes a strong nostalgic emotion of being a 12 yr old boy back in 1974 whenever I hear this song....
• Steve from Whittier, CaThe very pretty little opening riff in the instrumental bridge, to add to the "Oz"-ness, reminds me of the "Over the Rainbow" vocal-bridges-y'know, when Judy Garland stands there in sepiatone singing "Where happy little bluebirds fly.."
• Adam from West Palm Beach, FlBefore he joined The Move, Jeff Lynne was part of the Idle Race...
• Bratt Pid from Algiers, AlgeriaThis is one of the most beautiful songs i ever heard surely it sounds like a beatles thing but technically it's more complex and elaborated than any of the beatles stuff which are rudimentary,even though lynne was influenced by them ,he surpasses them just showing the fact that members of ELO were virtuosi and the beatles members didn't even play instruments correctly !
• Howard from Wakefield, United KingdomJeff Lynne sounds just like John Lennon on this, as he also does on 'Livin Thing'. 'Strange Magic' sounds just like John, Paul & George singing in harmony circa 1965 - 1969.
• Miked from Ann Arbor, MiCorrection to the lyric posted below.
  
  It is actually
  "Walking on a wave chicane"
  
  (not -on a wave she came).
  
  Odd but true!
• Oldpink from New Castle, InLynne's interesting delayed double-tracked vocals are a nice effect.
  Very pretty song, as most of ELO's were, especially the likes of "Telephone Line."
• Steve from Milford, United KingdomSharon Osbourne (Yes That One) is responsible for picking the album cover
• Mark from Bradford, United KingdomJeff did not co-found the Move.The band were already established when Roy Wood asked Jeff to join.Jeff joined on the understanding that the band would try new orchestral type music in the future (ELO).
• Ed from Canton, OhEldorado was a concept album about dreams. This song is about a dream that stays with you even after you awake.
• Dave from Lacrosse, WiWhen I hear the part where he sings "Mid-night on the wa-ter, I saw, the ocean's dau-ghter, walking on a wave she came,staring as she called my name." I get a vision in my head of the famous Botticelli painting; The Birth of Venus.
• Chet from Buffalo, NyThe Wizard of Oz is a 1939 film.
• Mark from London, EnglandThis later became a UK hit but only as the lead track of the "ELO EP".
• Charles from Charlotte, NcNot "appears to be"- it actually is a still from the 1933 film The Wizard of Oz.

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