The Move - Message from the Country ( 1971 )

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Message from the Country"	Jeff Lynne	Jeff Lynne	4:45
2.	"Ella James"	Roy Wood	Roy Wood	3:11
3.	"No Time"	Lynne	Jeff Lynne	3:38
4.	"Don't Mess Me Up"	Bev Bevan	Roy Wood	3:07
5.	"Until Your Mama's Gone"	Wood	Roy Wood	5:03

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
6.	"It Wasn't My Idea to Dance"	Wood	Roy Wood	5:28
7.	"The Minister"	Lynne	Jeff Lynne	4:27
8.	"Ben Crawley Steel Company"	Wood	Bev Bevan	3:02
9.	"The Words of Aaron"	Lynne	Jeff Lynne	5:25
10.	"My Marge"	Lynne, Wood	Jeff Lynne	1:59

Personnel

• Roy Wood – lead and backing vocals, guitars, steel guitar, recorders, bass, clarinet, bassoon, tenor and baritone saxes, percussion
• Jeff Lynne – lead and backing vocals, guitars, piano, percussion, Wurlitzer electric piano, tack piano, Moog, percussion, drums on "My Marge"
• Bev Bevan – drums, percussion, backing vocals, lead vocal on "Ben Crawley Steel Company"

Other Personnel

• Rick Price – bass on some original tracks (erased and redubbed by Wood)