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"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.
The suite concludes with "Mr. Blue Sky", a lively, optimistic song celebrating sunshine. [27] Jeff Lynne has told the story of how he wrote the song: [28] The weather had been really bad, and then one day I got up and it was fantastic, the sun was brilliant and shining, all the mountains were lit up and this mist had gone away.
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.
[3] NME's James McMahon likened it to "Mr. Blue Sky" by the English rock band Electric Light Orchestra, writing "[It] is without question the most ambitious song Cuomo has ever penned, cramming a rapped intro, barber-shop harmonies and ornate music box twinkling into a six-minute geek-pop rewrite of ELO's Mr Blue Sky.'" [13]
"Mr. Blue Sky" Electric Light Orchestra: 1978 Written by Jeff Lynne and recorded 1977 at Musicland Studios [78] "Take the 'A' Train" Duke Ellington: 1941 A jazz standard composed by Billy Strayhorn in 1939 [79] "Stay with Me" Lorraine Ellison: 1966 Co-written by Jerry Ragovoy and George David Weiss [80] "Lose Yourself" Eminem: 2002
The compilation favours album versions rather than single versions; tracks such as "Rock 'n' Roll Is King", "Shine a Little Love" and "Boy Blue" are longer. The compilation is sequenced chronologically and is drawn from US singles, but missing 3 from Xanadu , with exception of the European hit " Rockaria! " on disc one.
It was released as the B-side of the hit single "Mr. Blue Sky" in 1978. The album version includes an orchestra intro but part of it was cut for the single. as was the backing vocal by Ellie Greenwich. [1] "One Summer Dream" (on different singles with "Mr. Blue Sky") has a fading difference. [citation needed]
It is the second track from the LP Out of the Blue. It was the last single to be lifted from the album and was released exclusively in the United States, becoming a minor hit. The orchestral beginning was actually the end of "Mr. Blue Sky" reversed. [citation needed]