Cash Box said that the song "features a characteristically full sound and effective use of breaks" and that "fast pace, airy singing and strings provide musical dramatics." Ultimate Classic Rock critic Michael Gallucci rated it as ELO's best song. Billboard Magazine described the beat as "catchy" and said that the song builds from a "thumping intro" to a "harmonic operatic" ending. Guarisco also pointed other references to the Beatles such as "the staccato bassline recalls the chorus of ' Hello Goodbye' and pounding piano lines and panting background vocals recall the midsection of ' A Day in the Life '".
Blue Sky" a "miniature pop symphony" and a "multi-layered pop treat that was a pure Beatles pastiche", saying that "the music divides its time between verses that repeat the same two notes to hypnotic effect a la ' I Am the Walrus' and an effervescent, constantly-ascending chorus". This was confirmed by Jeff Lynne on 3 October 2012 on The One Show.ĪllMusic's Donald A. Blue Sky" it is actually "Please turn me over" as it is the end of side three, and the listener is being instructed to flip the LP over. A second vocoded segment at the end of the song was often interpreted by listeners as "Mr. The song features a heavily vocoded voice singing the phrase "Mr. And that's before the Swingle Singers/RKO Tarzan movie/ Rachmaninoff symphonic finale gets underway.
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Plus the musical ambush on "way" at 2.51 still thrills. But this fabulous madness creates its own wonder – the bendy guitar solo, funky cello stop-chorus, and the most freakatastic vocoder since Sparky's Magic Piano. Lots of Gibb Brothers' vocal inflexions and Beatles' arrangement quotes (Penny Lane bell, Pepper panting, Abbey Road arpeggio guitars). When the song is performed live, a drumstick is used to strike the side of a fire extinguisher, which produces the now iconic sound.ĭescribing the song for the BBC, Dominic King said: The arrangement makes prominent use of a cowbell-like sound, which is credited on the album, to percussionist Bev Bevan, as that of a " fire extinguisher". Problems playing this file? See media help. The song's piano and drum intro is borrowed from the Kinks' 1968 song " Do You Remember Walter". The song's arrangement has been called " Beatlesque", bearing similarities to Beatles songs " Martha My Dear" and " A Day in the Life" while harmonically it shares its unusual first four chords and harmonic rhythm with " Yesterday". Blue Sky and 13 other songs in the next 2 weeks. Suddenly the sun shone and it was, 'Wow, look at those beautiful Alps.' I wrote Mr. It was dark and misty for 2 weeks, and I didn't come up with a thing. Blue Sky" after locking himself away in a Swiss chalet and attempting to write ELO's follow-up to A New World Record: In a BBC Radio interview, Lynne talked about writing "Mr. Due to its popularity and frequent use in multiple television shows and movies, it has sometimes been described as the band's signature song. Like the album from which the single was issued, promotional copies were released on blue vinyl. Blue Sky" was the second single to be taken from Out of the Blue, peaking at number 6 in the UK Singles Chart and number 35 in the US Billboard Charts. 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.
Blue Sky" is a song by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), featured on the band's seventh studio album Out of the Blue (1977). Electric Light Orchestra singles chronology
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