CBS distributed issue on Special Edition Blue Vinyl - Jet label with white/yellow light beams, gatefold sleeve with two cardboard inner lyric sleeves. Cutout Material Is Plentiful at NARM". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media. 7 April 1979 . Retrieved 7 January 2012.

a b Ure, Beth (6 February 2023). "We've all been singing ELO's iconic Mr Blue Sky completely wrong" . Retrieved 2 May 2023.The Poster was Jet DP 400 but could be also UAR 100, the cardboard space ship could be UAR 100 or Jet DP 400 or be totally missing ! I'd rank this behind their other albums "Discovery""A New World Record" and "Time" the latter is my all time favourite ELO album. ELO 'Out Of Blue' Hassle Heating Up". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media. 10 February 1979 . Retrieved 16 September 2018– via Google Books. New Jet Records label design, now in brighter blue with yellow and pink light beams shinning from the “Jet Records” tower.

a b c d Beaumont, Mark (30 March 2016). "Electric Light Orchestra – 10 of the best". the Guardian . Retrieved 7 May 2022. CD Issue 450885 2 from 1987/1988 was also available in the UK, there was three issues on single CD.dutchcharts.nl Electric Light Orchestra – Out of the Blue" (ASP). dutchcharts.nl (in Dutch). MegaCharts . Retrieved 8 August 2011.

In 2017, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the album, a double picture vinyl disc was released by Sony Music and Epic Records.

The Official Charts Company – Electric Light Orchestra – Out of the Blue" (PHP). Official Charts Company . Retrieved 24 February 2012. This printing error occurs on various UK, Canada, USA, Holland and Europe issues. Some 1980's editions seem to have corrected the error, but the orange text error can be seen again on 1990's Epic Re-issues and even on the Epic 2012 and later issues. The first issue of Jet DP400 / UAR 100 issue. Out of the Blue is still above ELO on the record label & UAR 100 is also listed. Mitchum, Rob (2007). "Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue". Pitchfork . Retrieved 16 October 2022.

The nice price inners are a different design and the text starts with the words "Hundreds of Great Value…" 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] Each issue comes with a with full colour booklet with lyrics and the band members pictures from the LP poster. Out Of The Blue was originally distributed by United Artists Records (UAR) upon it's 1977 release. However UAR was sold to Capitol Records in 1978. Don Arden (ELO Manager and Jet Records owner) wanted a change away from UAR. CBS Records then paid 11 million dollars to get ELO on contract with them. Runtagh, Jordan (3 October 2013). "Double Trouble: The 35 Best-Selling Double Albums of All Time". vh1.com . Retrieved 11 October 2017.After the change of distribution partner from Jet Records to CBS on 5 May 1978, there were logistical Including full colour cardboard inner lyric sleeves and a double side poster, as shown above for the Blue vinyl edition. Jenkins, Mark (2007). Analog Synthesizers: Understanding, Performing, Buying- from the legacy of Moog to software synthesis (1sted.). Focal Press. p.31. ISBN 978-0-240520-72-8. Thru 1978, the inner sleeves, posters and spaceship assembly-kit were then replaced by the correct JET DP 400 covers, inner sleeves, posters and spaceship assembly-kits. On the UK poster the name ‘Out Of The Blue’ was accidentally printed in red instead of white. Jungle" takes a stylistic left turn, featuring " Tarzan effects, trumpeting elephants, a talking line, and a Terpsichorean interlude" that Delve describes as part of the song's "unashamed goofiness". [18] The song is divisive among fans, with some seeing it as "an unworthy novelty". [18]