| Turkish Tram Conductor Blues | |
| Cover: | Turkish tram conductor blues.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | The Move |
| Album: | Looking On |
| B-Side: | Beautiful Daughter |
| Released: | January 1971 |
| Recorded: | May–September 1970 |
| Studio: | Advision & Philips, London |
| Genre: | Blues |
| Length: | 4:38 (album) 4:46 (single) |
| Label: | Ariola (Germany) |
| Producer: | Roy Wood Jeff Lynne |
| Prev Title: | When Alice Comes Back to the Farm |
| Prev Year: | 1970 |
| Next Title: | Tonight |
| Next Year: | 1971 |
"Turkish Tram Conductor Blues" is a song performed by English band The Move. The song was written by Roy Wood, though the group's drummer Bev Bevan was credited as songwriter, as a reward for his promotional efforts on behalf of the band.[1] [2] Bevan noted that the song was "the sort of the thing that the Wild Angels might like to play".[3]
Turkish Tram Conductor Blues is also noted for rumours of hidden cuss words in the track.[4]
Initially, Turkish Tram Conductor Blues was written for the band's fourth EP, Looking On. The song, alongside two of Wood's other songs on the album (Brontosaurus and When Alice Comes Back to the Farm), show a more "harder" metal genre, compared to the songs of the previous album Shazam.[5]
The B-side was a track called "Beautiful Daughter", which was previously released in Shazam.[6]
The Move[7]
Additional personnel[8]