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[folder:Music]]

Often serves as a cheap excuse for MoodLighting: for instance, when the singer sings that he's blue, he is surrounded by a blue spotlight or camera filter. Compare SongOfManyEmotions, which is this but with emotions instead. Often overlaps with ListSong.

[[AC:{{Theatre}}]]
* "That Terrific Rainbow" from ''Theatre/PalJoey''.
* "Rainbow High" from Theatre/{{Evita}}.
* "Colorful" from ''Golden Boy''.
* "Coat of Many Colors" from ''Theatre/JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat'' describes the many colors of Joseph's coat [[note]]Red, yellow, green, brown, scarlet, black, ochre, peach, ruby, olive, violet, fawn, lilac, gold, chocolate, mauve, cream, crimson, silver, rose, azure, lemon, russet, grey, purple, white, pink, orange, and blue[[/note]].
* "The Colors of My Life" from TheMusical ''Barnum'' - sung by the titular character and then as a DarkReprise by his wife, who prefers more mundane colors.
* "Color And Light" from ''Theatre/SundayInTheParkWithGeorge''.
* "Walking In Space" from ''Theatre/{{Hair}}''.
* "Red And Black" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' about how these two colors have [[ColorMotif different meanings for Enjolras and Marius]].
* "Masquerade" from ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''.
* "Rooftop Duet/Falling" from ''Theatre/OrdinaryDays''.

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* "Sing A Rainbow" from ''Pete Kelly's Blues''.
* While the songs themselves don't mention colors in any extreme way ("Nothing Like a Dame" does have the line "We feel restless, we feel blue", but that's about it), the film of ''Theatre/SouthPacific'' made the rather odd decision to gel the ''camera'' during the musical numbers. When the sky suddenly turns pink, you know there's a song coming up.

[[AC:Games]]
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clvOYaTjhVg Colorful Days]]" from ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmaster The iDOLM@STER Live For You!]]'', complete with ColorCodedForYourConvenience.
* "Colors" from ''VideoGame/BeatManiaIIDX'' and ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution''

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* "The Green with Envy Blues" and "The Spectrum Song" from Disney's ''The Wonderful World of Color''.
** The version of the Spectrum Song featured on ''Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color'' features an additional bit:
-->'''Ludwig Von Drake:''' Now, alright, we know that everybody don't have television sets with color, so... we're gonna do a version for them, we don't want you to feel left out of it. Here's for you...\\
''Black black gray white gray gray gray white white white gray gray white, black.''\\
''Black black gray white gray gray gray white white gray gray gray black, black.''\\
Alright, now you're happy? You don't feel left out? Now I wanna get back to my song.
* [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePony "Pink, the sunrise is pink, and so is a rose, a buttercup glows all yellowy..."]]
* In the pilot of ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', Gozalen sings a lullabye her grandfather taught her to Darkwing since he doesn't know any, which is mostly singing random colors that exist in the rainbow in a seemingly random and redundant order. That is until Darkwing notices that her grandfather's Zero Point interface cannon has a color coded keyboard.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ClassOf3000'', we have "A Richer Shade of Blue" and "The Crayon Song".

[[AC:Other Songs]]
* "Color My World" by Petula Clark.
** Colour My World(Music/{{Chicago}})
* "(I Like) Traffic Lights" from ''Creator/MontyPython's Contractual Obligation Album''.
* "Grace Kelly" by Music/{{Mika}}, at least in its chorus.
* "Bold as Love" by Music/JimiHendrix from ''Music/AxisBoldAsLove''.
* "I'm Tickled Pink" by Jack Shaindlin, mostly notable for appearing in ''Fallout 3''.
* "All Together Now" by Music/TheBeatles, from ''Music/YellowSubmarine''.
* "Technicolor Phase" by Music/OwlCity.
* "Indigo" by Music/TomMilsom
* "Colors" by Pharoah Sanders
* "The Color Of Blue" by Music/SClub7
* "Butterfly" by Smile DK
* MLTR's "Paint my Love" counts.
* "Roy G. Biv" by Music/TheyMightBeGiants.
* "Ode to Crayola" by Music/LemonDemon
* "Colours" by Music/{{Grouplove}}
* "Purple, Yellow, Red and Blue'' by Portugal. The Man
* "Music/CoatOfManyColors" by Music/DollyParton, about a coat made out of colorful rags that Dolly's mother gave to her.
* "The Coloring Song" by Music/{{Petra}}
* "The Colour Song" by Music/{{Songdrops}}
* Inversion with Music/TheRollingStones' "Paint It Black": Only a handful of other colors are mentioned, namely red green and blue, and the singer wants everything to become black as he mourns the passing of his lover.

Often serves as a cheap excuse for MoodLighting: for instance, when the singer sings that he's blue, he is surrounded by a blue spotlight or camera filter. Compare SongOfManyEmotions, which is this but with emotions instead.

* "Coat of Many Colors" from ''Theatre/JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat'' describes the many colors of Joseph's coat [[note]]Red, yellow, green, brown, scarlet, black, ochre, peach, ruby, olive, violet, fawn, lilac, gold, chocolate, mauve, cream, crimson, silver, rose, azure, lemon, russet, grey, purple, white, pink, orange, and blue[[/note]]. Listen to Ned Flanders of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' sing part of it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKknu9rOEq4 here]].

* Music/TaylorSwift's "Red" describes her [[SongOfManyEmotions many feelings]] colors as.

Often serves as a cheap excuse for MoodLighting: for instance, when the singer sings that he's blue, he is surrounded by a blue spotlight or camera filter.

* "Coat of Many Colors" from ''Theatre/JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat'' desribes the many colors of Joseph's coat [[note]]Red, yellow, green, brown, scarlet, black, ochre, peach, ruby, olive, violet, fawn, lilac, gold, chocolate, mauve, cream, crimson, silver, rose, azure, lemon, russet, grey, purple, white, pink, orange, and blue[[/note]]. Listen to Ned Flanders of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' sing part of it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKknu9rOEq4 here]].

* "Grace Kelly" by Mika, at least in its chorus.

* "Color My World" by Petula Clark

* "The Color Song" by songdrops

* In ClassOf3000, we have "A Richer Shade of Blue" and "The Crayon Song".

* "Colors" from ''BeatManiaIIDX'' and ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution''

* "That Terrific Rainbow" from ''Pal Joey''.

* While the songs themselves don't mention colors in any extreme way ("Nothing Like a Dame" does have the line "We feel restless, we feel blue", but that's about it), the film of ''SouthPacific'' made the rather odd decision to gel the ''camera'' during the musical numbers. When the sky suddenly turns pink, you know there's a song coming up.

* "The Color Of Blue" by S Club 7

* "Colours" by Music/Grouplove

* ''Music/CoatOfManyColors'' by Music/DollyParton, about a coat made out of colorful rags that Dolly's mother gave to her.

* "Rainbow High" from {{Evita}}.

* "Walking In Space" from ''{{Hair}}''.

* [[MyLittlePony "Pink, the sunrise is pink, and so is a rose, a buttercup glows all yellowy..."]]

* "Bold as Love" by Jimi Hendrix

* "All Together Now" by Music/TheBeatles.
* "Technicolor Phase" by OwlCity.

* "Roy G. Biv" by TheyMightBeGiants.
* "Ode to Crayola" by LemonDemon
* "Colours" by Grouplove

* "Red And Black" from ''Theater/LesMiserables'' about how these two colors have [[ColorMotif different meanings for Enjolras and Marius]].

* "Coat of Many Colors" from ''Theatre/JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat''. Listen to Ned Flanders of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' sing part of it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKknu9rOEq4 here]].

* "Indigo" by TomMilsom

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* "Coat of Many Colors" from ''JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat''. Listen to Ned Flanders of ''TheSimpsons'' sing part of it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKknu9rOEq4 here]].