Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "\"Blue Jay Way\" is a song written by George Harrison and recorded by the Beatles. It was released in 1967 on the band's Magical Mystery Tour album and EP. The song is named after a street in the Hollywood Hills where Harrison stayed in August 1967, and the lyrics document his waiting for friends to find their way there through fog-ridden Los Angeles. As with several of Harrison's compositions from this period, \"Blue Jay Way\" incorporates aspects of Indian classical music, although the Beatles used only Western instrumentation on the track. Recorded during the group's psychedelic period, it features extensive use of studio techniques such as flanging, Leslie rotary effect, and reversed tape sounds.The song also appeared in the Beatles' 1967 television film Magical Mystery Tour, in a sequence that re-creates the sense of haziness and dislocation evident in the recording. The music website Consequence of Sound describes \"Blue Jay Way\" as \"a haunted house of a hit, adding an ethereal, creepy mythos to the City of Angels\". Other artists who have recorded the song include Bud Shank, Colin Newman, Tracy Bonham, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Greg Hawkes."@en }
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- Blue_Jay_Way abstract "\"Blue Jay Way\" is a song written by George Harrison and recorded by the Beatles. It was released in 1967 on the band's Magical Mystery Tour album and EP. The song is named after a street in the Hollywood Hills where Harrison stayed in August 1967, and the lyrics document his waiting for friends to find their way there through fog-ridden Los Angeles. As with several of Harrison's compositions from this period, \"Blue Jay Way\" incorporates aspects of Indian classical music, although the Beatles used only Western instrumentation on the track. Recorded during the group's psychedelic period, it features extensive use of studio techniques such as flanging, Leslie rotary effect, and reversed tape sounds.The song also appeared in the Beatles' 1967 television film Magical Mystery Tour, in a sequence that re-creates the sense of haziness and dislocation evident in the recording. The music website Consequence of Sound describes \"Blue Jay Way\" as \"a haunted house of a hit, adding an ethereal, creepy mythos to the City of Angels\". Other artists who have recorded the song include Bud Shank, Colin Newman, Tracy Bonham, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Greg Hawkes.".