Although the show ran for only 39 performances, "Blue Skies" was an instant success, with audiences on opening night demanding 24 encores of the piece from star Belle Baker.

1946 was also a notable year for the song, with a Bing Crosby/Fred Astaire film taking its title along with two recorded versions by Count Basie and Benny Goodman reaching #8 and #9 on the pop charts, respectively.

In 1958, Ella Fitzgerald crossed genres putting her own distinctive scat jazz stylings on "Blue Skies" for her double-LP album, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book, that year's installment in her famous eight-album Song Book series.

[3] The song was featured in Ann Marie Fleming's 2002 short film Blue Skies, performed by Alessandro Juliani.

[4] Twenty years after Fitzgerald's cover, in 1978, Willie Nelson released another version of "Blue Skies" which became a #1 country music hit.