"OK Blue Jays" is the song played during the seventh-inning stretch of home games of the Canadian Major League Baseball team, the Toronto Blue Jays. The song includes references to the team's roster and events from the 1980s. It was released in 1983 and charted 47th on RPM's singles list. By 1986, the single had sold over 50,000 copies and was certified gold. It was written by Jack Lenz and Tony Kosinec and is performed by Keith Hampshire and "The Bat Boys". The song was remixed by Rob Wells and Chris Anderson in 2003.
The Blue Jays song was conceptualized and by Alan Smith, Creative Director at JWT Direct. He wrote most of the lyrics together with copywriter Pat Arbour although the first verse was written entirely by recording artist Tony Kosinec of the Lenz/Kosisec jingle house which was hired to write the music and to produce the song under Smith and Arbour's direction. The project was approved and supported by Mr. Paul Beeston of the Toronto Blue Jays.
Famous quotes containing the words blue and/or jays:
“So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)
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—O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862–1910)