There’s a song that asks, “Why are there so many songs about rainbows?” I never realized that there were that many.
The song I refer to is “The Rainbow Connection” by Paul WIlliams and Kenneth Ascher and featured in the first Muppet Movie. Kermit the Frog sang it in that fun movie back in 1979. I have liked the song from the moment I heard it, but I wonder if there really are that many songs about rainbows. Here are the ones I know about:
- “Over the Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz
- “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows” a song adapted from a Chopin Prelude
- “I Can Sing a Rainbow”–a children’s song used to teach kids the names of the colors
- “Look to the Rainbow” from Finian’s Rainbow
Can you think of any others? It’s funny for Williams and Asher to ask why there are so many songs about rainbows, if there aren’t that many.
10 responses so far ↓
Mike Lovell // August 19, 2008 at 11:49 am |
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=37491
plenty of rainbow songs mentioned here
helenl // August 19, 2008 at 2:47 pm |
I found the same URL Mike did. There’s lots of rainbow songs.
Scott Erb // August 20, 2008 at 7:30 am |
Rik Emmett (lyricist for Triumph, now a solo artist) had “Rainbow Man.”
He also has one of my favorite lines in a song (from “Stranger in a Strange Land” on Triumph’s Thunder Seven:
“A blinding hatred caused by fear
Is showing in their eyes
They want their truth all black and white
But a rainbow never tells no lies
To a stranger in a strange land…”
Jay Burns // August 20, 2008 at 10:53 am |
You know, I bet I could say, “Why are there so many songs about pirates” and you could find some obscure site to back me up.
languagelover // August 21, 2008 at 7:40 am |
I bet you are right:
http://music.ign.com/articles/718/718259p1.html
and, even more fun:
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/songs1.html
Jay Burns // August 21, 2008 at 11:20 am |
I knew it. The pirates are taking over.
Kristy // August 9, 2009 at 8:14 am |
Ow I love your Blog I was trying to find rainbow lyrics….I have a rainbow fetish this week!!
renaissanceguy // August 9, 2009 at 9:29 am |
You probably won’t love my blog if you read everything that I have written. However, I am happy that you have found some things here that you like.
Erin // September 5, 2009 at 1:39 am |
True Colors – Cyndi Lauper
Somewhere off the Foot of this Mountain – Gina Forsyth
Reading Rainbow’s theme song
Kathy Cheer // October 1, 2009 at 8:50 am |
Pirates and rainbows. The words suggest fearlessness and hope. Such it is with modern-day scavengers who search the coves and deep caverns of the sea in search of treasure long lost, hoping to find a cache with kruggerands enough to buy a Maserati.