The challenge

I asked for ideas a few days ago! The Chairlady has announced a "Song Title with a Colour in the title" challenge. Atm I can only think of Red Red Wine. I have no idea why!! lol. Thankyou all for your suggestions.

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Estelle Gallagher
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Oh there are so many options for this one!

Yellow brick road A white shade of pale - that could be all neutrals, or maybe Tia AMry's silk quilt meets this description. Bluebells of Scotland Purple Haze

For song titles and lyrics I like:

The misheard lyrics are particularly funny

Lizzy

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Lizzy Taylor

Purple Rain Tie A Yellow Ribbon Yellow Submarine Blue Moon Blue Velvet Green Sleeves Brown Sugar Pink Carnation Pink Cadillac Red, Red Robin

The link below is a fun little game site to refresh your memory.

Elizabeth in Spring, Texas

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Bobbie Sews More

"True Colors" (Cyndi Lauper)

"Paint It Black"(Rolling Stones), "Black is Black", "Back in Black" (AC/DC), "Black and White" (3 Dog Night)

"Mellow Yellow", "Yellow Subamarine" (Beatles), "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" (Elton John)

"Blue Bayou"(Linda Rondstadt), "Blue Suede Shoes", "Mr. Blue Sky"(ELO), "Behind Blue Eyes"(The Who), "Blue Moon" (and any blues song around, I would think with the word in the title...;-)

"Red is the Rose" old folk song, "Red Rubber Ball' (The Byrds?) "Red House" (Jimi Hendrix)

"Purple Haze"(Jimi Hendrix), "Purple Rain" (Prince), "Purple People" (Tori Amos)

"White Room" (Cream? Eric Clapton, at any rate), "Whiter Shade of Pale" (Procul Harem), "White Rabbit" (Jefferson Airplane), "White Wedding" (Billy Idol), "Nights in White Satin" (Moody Blues), "White Trash Wedding" (Dixie Chicks. The mental image alone is enough to conjure ideas...;-)

"Pink Cadillac" (Bruce Springsteen)

"Brown-Eyed Girl" (Van Morrison)

"Green, Green Grass of Home" (Tom Jones?), "Bitter Green" (Gordon Lightfoot)

"Fields of Gold" (Sting), "Goldfinger" (Shirley Bassey)

"Orange Crush" (REM), "Orange Blossom Special", "Orange County Girl" (Gwen Stefani)

I'm sure there are tons more out there....

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Debi Matlack

Oh my oh my!! I should find one or two there lol! Thankyou one and all!

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Estelle Gallagher

Glad I can help. That sort of trivia is right up my alley... sad, but true...;-)

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Debi Matlack

"She wore a yellow polka-dot bikini" "Purple People Eater"

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Idahoqltr

Some of these are already listed... but I didn't have the time to sort through them.

band of gold

beyond the blue

big yellow taxi

black eyes, blue tears

black magic woman

black water

blue bayou

blue money

blue on blue

blue suede shoes

blue velvet

brown eyed girl

brown sugar

crystal blue persuasion

deep purple

ebony & ivory

golden slumber

golden summer

goodbye yellow brick road

green green grass of home

judy blue eyes

little red corvette

love is blue

mellow yellow

nights in white satin

orange blossom special

pink cadillac

purple haze

purple people eater

purple rain

red red rose

red roses for a blue lady

ruby Tuesday

silver bells

song sung blue

Tangled up in blue

when sunny gets blue

white sport coat, a

yellow bird

yellow rose of Texas, the

yellow submarine

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Kate G.

Yellow Rose of Texas Red Roses for a Blue Lady Blue Danube (An den Schönen Blauen Donau) Green Green Grass of Home Rings of Fire (borderline, but does invoke colorful visions) Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair

Others will no doubt come up with a few hundred more! Roberta in D

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Roberta Zollner

Conspicuously missing so far: Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini Roberta in D

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Roberta Zollner

It's not easy being green (sesame street)

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kratersge

Silver threads and golden needles A pink Scottie and a Green Scottie [jingle for Scott facial tissues from the sixties!] Blue skies Yellow [by Coldplay] Purple Rain The Orange and The Green [a Celtic rebel song] Blue christmas A bowl of Oranges

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KI Graham

Lady in Red

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Boca Jan

Blue Suede Shoes Green Green Grass

Debbi > Purple Rain

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Debbi in SO CA

Red Sails in the Sunset

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Kay Ahr

Google for song titles with 'red...' then 'blue' then green etc. You should get loads for each. Red roses for a blue lady! Tie a yellow ribbon ... Green, green hills of home Jeanie with the light brown hair

I could go on >g< but Google would be quieter! . In message , Estelle Gallagher writes

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Patti

And Purple People Eater :)

Julia > Conspicuously missing so far: Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

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Julia in MN

I can just mentally picture a block for each of those songs. Now THAT would be a neat quilt...especially if ppl had to guess the name of each block: )

Butterfly

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Butterflywings

Hope this is comprehensive enough for you:

# Back in Black (AC/DC) # Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell/Counting Crows) # Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath) # Blue Bayou (Roy Orbison) # Blue Hawaii (Elvis Presley) # Blue Hotel (Chris Isaak) # Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins/Elvis Presley) # Blue Sky Mine (Midnight Oil) # Blue Sunday (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) # Brown Sugar (The Rolling Stones) # Green, green grass of home (Tom Jones) # In the Court of the Crimson King (King Crimson) # Little chalk blue (Roger Glover's The Butterfly Ball) # New Blue Moon (The Traveling Wilburys) # Nights in White Satin (The Moody Blues) # Old Red Eyes is back (The Beautiful South) # Paint it, black (The Rolling Stones) # Pink Bedroom (John Hiatt/Rosanne Cash) # Pretty in Pink (The Psychedelic Furs) # Purple Rain (Prince and the Revolution) # Red, Red Wine (Neil Diamond/UB40) # Suicide Blonde (INXS) # White Wedding (Billy Idol) # contributions from 1922: # Yellow Submarine (The Beatles) # Orange Crush (REM) # Black Velvet (Alannah Myles) # Blue Velvet (Bobby Vinton) # Lady in Black (Uriah Heep) # Yellow Lemon Tree (Fools Garden) # contributions from Wezzo: # Electron Blue (REM) # contributions from stumpy: # Blue Moon of Kentucky (Elvis Presley/Bill Monroe) # Blue Skies (Doris Day/Willie Nelson) # Blue Sky (The Allman Brothers) # Baby Blue (Badfinger) # Baby's In Black (Beatles) # Black Cat (Janet Jackson) # Blue (Leann Rimes) # Blue Christmas (Elvis Presley) # Blue Money (Van Morrison) # Blue Moon (Elvis Presley/The Marcels) # 99 Red (Luft) Balloons (Nena) # A Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum) # Agent Orange (Tori Amos) # Aging Orange (The Vandals) # Black Betty (Ram Jam) # Black Diamond Bay (Bob Dylan) # Black Jack Davey (Bob Dylan) # Black Magic Woman (Santana) # Black Math (White Stripes) # Black or White (Michael Jackson) # Black Water (Doobie Brothers) # Black, Red, Yellow (Pearl Jam) # Blue (Jayhawks) # Blue and Yellow (The Used) # Blue Burns Orange (Hawthorn Heights) # Blue Green Orange (I Mother Earth) # Bluebird (Buffalo Springfield) # Bluer Than Blue (Michael Johnson) # Bright As Yellow (The Eels) # Bruised Orange (John Prine) # Cinnamon (Derek) # Crystal Blue Persuasion (Tommy James & The Shondells) # Deep Purple (Nino Tempo and April Stevens) # Devil With A Blue Dress On (Mitch Ryder) # Dressed In Black (Depeche Mode) # East Texas Red (Tom Russell) # Ebony & Ivory (P. McCartney and S. Wonder) # Evolution Orange (Earth, Wind and Fire) # Fade To Black (Metallica) # Fields of Gold (Sting) # Golden Slumbers (Beatles) # Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John) # Green Onions (Booker T. & the MG's) # Green River (Creedence Clearwater Revival) # Green Tamborine (The Lemon Pipers) # I Saw Red (Warrant) # I'm Painting The Town Red (Billie Holiday) # Jackie Blue (Ozark Mountain Daredevils) # Lady In Red (Chris De Burgh) # Little Green Bag (George Baker) # Livin' In Black and White (Tracy Lawrence) # Long Black Veil (Johnny Cash) # Long White Cadillac (Dwight Yoakam) # Love Is Blue (Paul Mauriat) # Man In Black (Johnny Cash) # Maxwells Silver Hammer (Beatles) # Mellow Yellow (Donovan) # Men In Black (Will Smith) # Moon Was Yellow (Frank Sinatra) # Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter (Herman's Hermits) # My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy (Dolly Parton) # Navy Blue (Diane Renay) # Old Brown Shoe (Beatles) # Orange (10,000 Maniacs) # Orange Blossom Special (Johnny Cash) # Pale Purple (Ani DiFranco) # Pink (Aerosmith) # Pink Houses (John Mellencamp) # Purple (Fat Amy) # Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix) # Red Hot (Billy Riley & his Little Green Men) # Red House (Jimi Hendrix) # Red Light (Usher) # Red River Valley (Arlo Guthrie) # Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Gene Autry) # Screaming Yellow (The Nixons) # Silence Is Golden (Tremeloes) # Tangerine (Led Zeppelin) # The Woman In Red (Stevie Wonder) # The World Is Black (Good Charlotte) # Tie A Yellow Ribbon (Tony Orlando & Dawn) # True Blue (Rod Stewart) # Under The Red Sky (Bob Dylan) # Visions of White (Kevin Montgomery) # What If He Was White (Eminem) # White Bird (It's A Beautiful Day) # White Christmas (Bing Crosby) # White Houses (Vanessa Carlton) # White Lightnin' (George Jones) # White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane) # White Room (Cream) # Yellow (Coldplay) # Yellow Ledbetter (Pearl Jam) # contributions from P Pogo # Black Hole Sun (Soundgarden) # Honey White (Morphine) # Famous Blue Raincoat (Leonard Cohen) # Almost Blue (Elvis Costello) # The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes (Elvis Costello) # Black Dog (Led Zeppelin) # Pink Cadillac (Bruce Springsteen) # White Riot (The Clash) # Tangled Up in Blue (Bob Dylan) # contributions from openstacks: # Little Red Corvette (Prince) # Green Earrings (Steely Dan) # Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Flaming Lips) # White Light/White Heat (Velvet Underground) # Blue on Black (Kenny Wayne Shepherd) # Heart of Gold (Neil Young) # contributions from Jakey: # Gold (Spandau Ballet) # Blue Eyes (The Wedding Present) # Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison) # Green Mind (Dinosaur Jr) # Golden Green (The Wonderstuff) # Red Rain (Peter Gabriel) # Into The White (The Pixies) # Cream (Prince) # Blue Monday (New Order) # Golden Gaze (Ian Brown) # Blue Sky (A-ha) # Fade to Grey (Visage) # True Blue (Madonna) # contributions from Russa03: # It's All Over Now Baby Blue (Bob Dylan) # Brick Is Red (Pixies) # Silver (Pixies) # Big Red (Frank Black) # Golden Porsche (Mogwai) # Blue Skies Bring Tears (Smashing Pumpkins) # Pink Turns to Blue (Husker Du) # Blackhole (Beck) # The Golden Age (Beck) # Black Tambourine (Beck) # Gold Soundz (Pavement) # Black Out (Pavement) # Blue Hawaiian (Pavement) # Cream of Gold (Pavement) # Black and White Town (Doves)

Larisa, de-stressing after a day with Mother and the children

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