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The feel-good instrumental was inspired by “Your Hand In Mine” by Explosions in ihe Sky.—and as it turns out, the producers originally wanted to use one of the band's songs for the theme.
"Mr. Blue Sky" is a song by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), featured on the band's seventh studio album Out of the Blue (1977). Written and produced by frontman Jeff Lynne , the song forms the fourth and final track of the "Concerto for a Rainy Day" suite on side three of the original double album .
Top of the Pops – ("Whole Lotta Love") – performed by Top of the Pops orchestra & CCS; Torchwood – Murray Gold; The Torkelsons ("A New Day Promises") – The Judds; Total Drama Island – ("I Wanna Be Famous") – Graeme Cornies and Dawna Toews; Touch – Lisa Coleman and Wendy Melvoin; A Touch of Frost – Barbara Thompson and John Hiseman
Hoyt Curtin - "Theme from Jonny Quest"; "Meet the Flintstones" (Theme from The Flintstones), "Theme from The Jetsons" (both with William Hanna and Joseph Barbera) Sonny Curtis - "Love is All Around" (Theme from The Mary Tyler Moore Show) Miley Cyrus - "The Best of Both Worlds" (Theme from Hannah Montana)
The garage rock band The Willowz contributed two songs to the soundtrack, and would later contribute songs to director Michel Gondry's next film The Science of Sleep. "Mr. Blue Sky" is not featured in the film, but plays in the theatrical trailer and most advertising spots for the film.
[1] According to Browne biographer Rich Wiseman, "the sky serves as the album's most striking symbol of death/salvation." [1] [5] Holden similarly stated that the sky is "the album’s symbol for escape, salvation and death." [4] Both Bego and Wiseman have suggested that the song is about Browne's relationship with singer Joni Mitchell. [1] [3] [5]
Mr. Blue Sky: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra, also known as Mr. Blue Sky, is an album of re-recordings by Jeff Lynne of hits by Electric Light Orchestra. It was issued in 2012 by Frontiers Music simultaneously with Lynne's cover album Long Wave.
As of 2019, the Academy's rules stipulate that "an original song consists of words and music, both of which are original and written specifically for the motion picture.. It must be clearly audible, intelligible, substantive rendition (not necessarily visually presented) of both lyric and melody, used in the body of the motion picture or as the first music cue in the end credit