Talk about my worlds colliding! My all-time favorite movie and one of my all-time favorite artist. The only question I have is, why has it taken me so long to figure this out!?
In an interview with The Boot, “Blue Clear Sky” songwriter, Bob DiPiero, admitted that the song was in fact inspired by a scene from the movie Forrest Gump. DiPiero said he was sitting in the movie theater and noticed that Forrest’s girlfriend, Jenny, kept coming in and out of his life, “At one point, he [Forrest] says, ‘And out of the blue clear sky, Jenny came back.’”
“So George comes on the phone and says, “I’m from Texas, and Texas is clear blue sky. You think it ought to be clear blue sky?” And I was shocked by the fact that George Strait was on the phone asking about this! So I told him about going to see Forrest Gump, and life was like a box of chocolates ... and that he said “blue clear sky.”
DiPiero said George was kind of quiet for a minute, then he said, “Well, you think there’s many Gumpsters out there?” [Laughs] And I said, “Well, yeah, I do!” And he says, “Well, all right then, we’ll be Gumpsters!”
Simply amazing. “Blue Clear Sky” went on to be the title track on Strait’s album and one of his 50 #1 hits.
Cox Media Group
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