The Electric Light Orchestra (album)

The Electric Light Orchestra
Studio album by The Electric Light Orchestra
Released	3 December 1971 (U.K.) 2 March 1972 (U.S.)
Recorded	July 1970 – June 1971
Studio	Philips Studios, London
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	41:30
Label	Harvest United Artists
Producer	Roy Wood Jeff Lynne
The Electric Light Orchestra chronology
The Electric Light Orchestra (1971) ELO 2 (1973)
Singles from The Electric Light Orchestra
"10538 Overture" Released: 23 June 1972

The Electric Light Orchestra is the debut studio album by English rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released in December 1971 in the United Kingdom by Harvest Records. In the United States, the album was released in March 1972 as No Answer, after a misunderstood telephone message made by a United Artists Records executive asking about the album name;^[1] the caller, having failed to reach the ELO contact, wrote down "no answer" in his notes, and this was misconstrued to be the name of the album.