There is almost nothing musically that Jeff Lynne has ever done that I didn't like. It was in mid-2008 that JetBlue Airlines used the song in their online advertisement, with an interactive site where a user could pretend to be on the plane enjoying a ride and enjoying the amenities that JetBlue had to offer; playing the music selection during the interaction, the full version of the rerecorded song was played. Longtime drummer Bev Bevan was credited in the liner notes with 'fire extinguisher' on this track. Suddenly the sun came out and everything looked beautiful. Blue Sky, so that was a literal inspiration. It's been played to death ever since.
Many fans of the club associate the song with a former player and later manager , Trevor Francis, who, through his association with the club in the '70s, was believed to be friends with supporter Jeff Lynne. With almost five times as many votes as the second placed tune, the runaway winner is. The video, directed by Michael Patterson and Candace Reckinger is completely animated, featuring dancing objects the sun, clouds, flowers, cups, people and animals , people moving about a city, and a cartoon Jeff singing the song. First he was experiencing a sort of song writer's block where he struggled to come up with songs and spent too much unproductive time at a local pub. Jeff Lynne has gone on record as saying that his one remaining ambition in music is to write an all-time classic. I went to Switzerland and got this little chalet, tucked out of the way in the middle of nowhere so I'd have no distractions. However, this supposed alternate version of the video was not found or available for review here.
He said, 'That's a song that's found its time, because people love optimism and everything's gloomy at the minute. And that's the last line of the second verse. You couldn't help wondering whether it was really necessary for a grown man to sing 'Hey there, Mr. There was no difference between the album version and the single - the single master was copied directly from the album master tape. Blue Sky, I was actually in Switzerland and it was cloudy all the time. Like many of the villages up in the Jura it is pretty.
Blue Sky, 2:05 Sweet Talkin' Woman, 1:10 Shine A Little Love, 1:39 Last Train To London, 1:46 Confusion, 3:18 Rockaria! The early working title was apparently Thou Shalt Not No. It entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart on June 24, 1978, peaking at 35 on August 12, spending 12 weeks in the chart; it entered the Cash Box chart on June 24, 1978, reached 27 on August 19, 1978, and spent 12 weeks in the chart. To my mind it works. Note, there are conflicting reports as to whether it was the first song written at the time, or just one of the first songs written. That was Nig, through and through, dancing around the kitchen all the time so it's a good theme tune. So really, in every single case we were out flying, I was really hoping and praying, if you will, for blue skies. I actually stole the jazzy licks that pop up a couple of times from The Beach Boys' Heroes And Villains.
And I was sort of thinking, 'Bloody, 'ell, maybe I can't come up with anything. And now Scottish indie band the Delgados have cooked up a killer cover of the track as a B side on their latest single. Not bad for a song that barely cracked the American Top 40. Today's forecast calls for blue skies! More recently, it also reached a whole new world audience when it was featured as one of the highlights of this year's London 2012 Olympic ceremonies. Blue Sky was the Electric Light Orchestra's pastich-iest of them all. And musically it does that in a number of ways. Nobody could do it quite like that.
It gives you so much to think about and gives you so much truth the person who wrote the script truly must have some experience in this. I truly believe that this movie should be played in schools I think it would diffuse a lot of this hatred that's going on right now with the whole black lives matter and all lives matter and all the other stuff that's going on right now and maybe people will start learning to love each other for who they are. With almost five times as many votes from the public as the second placed tune, the runaway winner was Mr. Beating Dexy's Midnight Runners' Come On Eileen into second place and the mighty Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven into third, Jeff Lynne's 1978 hit is certainly top of the pops with Midland music fans. These beautiful flights over the greenlands and the wetlands of the arctic circle and bits of the arctic sea, fifty foot above the sea at two to twenty-four miles per hour.
Birmingham's players do still run out to Mr. Blue Sky The Very Best Of Electric Light Orchestra album. They played this for Jeff and convinced him to use the coda at the Children In Need Rocks 2013 concert. It's one of those songs that will be around as long as things are happening. It's a kickback to those acid days of Penny Lane and is a happy ending song to side three's 'Concerto For A Rainy Day' concept. Blue Sky with the whole school being involved to sell as a charity single to raise money for cancer research.
One point I wanted to make at the funeral was to bring Nige's song to light to everybody. Blue Sky--but it wasn't easy. With its episodic structure and heavy classical overtones, you imagine it as a monolithic 70s chart-topper on a par with Bohemian Rhapsody, but-- incredibly-- it only reached No. A beautiful yet silly song for such a crazy and yet perfect, touching movie. I wrote the song right there and then. To write the album, he was booked for four weeks in a Swiss chalet in Bassins, in the Jura Mountains part of the Swiss Alps.
I sure wish he would put the band back together. I didn't see any countryside for the first four days or so, and then everything cleared and there was this enormous view forever and the sky was blue. Others think it says 'Please Turn Over', as of course it closes the side. I think that's one of the reasons that this is such a powerful song. While I was making Mr. Blue Sky nails the aesthetic.