Colorful Song

A song which names many different colors.

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

Examples of Colorful Song include:

Theatre

• "That Terrific Rainbow" from Pal Joey.
• "Rainbow High" from Evita.
• "Colorful" from Golden Boy.
• "Coat of Many Colors" from Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Listen to Ned Flanders of The Simpsons sing part of it here.
• "The Colors of My Life" from The Musical Barnum - sung by the titular character and then as a Dark Reprise by his wife, who prefers more mundane colors.
• "Color And Light" from Sunday in The Park With George.
• "Walking In Space" from Hair.

Film

• "Sing A Rainbow" from Pete Kelly's Blues.

Games

• "Colorful Days" from The iDOLM@STER Live For You!, complete with Color Coded for Your Convenience.
• "Colors" from Beatmania IIDX and Dance Dance Revolution

Western Animation

• "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.

• "Pink, the sunrise is pink, and so is a rose, a buttercup glows all yellowy..."
• In the pilot of Darkwing Duck, Gozalen sings a lullaby 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 Class of 3000, we have "A Richer Shade of Blue" and "The Crayon Song".
• In Numberblocks, Seven's Image Song, "Your Lucky Charm" has "Rainbow Time!" as its own refrain, along with a line, referring to the fact that he is a tower of seven blocks, with each block in a color of the rainbow, with rainbow hair on top, reflecting the traditional seven colours of the rainbow.

{{quote| Seven: Rainbow time!
One: Red!
Seven: My first block is the same as you.
Two: Orange!
Seven: My second block is the same as two.
Three: Yellow!
Seven: My third block is just like number three.
Four: Green!
Seven: My fourth block is green, as you can see! Blue for five. Indigo for six. Violet is for seven...oh, that's me! I've got seven rainbow-coloured blocks, that makes me unique.

Other Songs

• "Color My World" by Petula Clark
• "(I Like) Traffic Lights" from Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album.
• "Grace Kelly" by Mika, at least in its chorus.
• "Bold as Love" by Jimi Hendrix
• "I'm Tickled Pink" by Jack Shaindlin, mostly notable for appearing in Fallout 3.
• "All Together Now" by The Beatles.
• "Technicolor Phase" by Owl City.
• "Indigo" by Tom Milsom
• "Colors" by Pharoah Sanders
• "The Color Of Blue" by S Club 7
• "Butterfly" by Smile DK
• MLTR's "Paint my Love" counts.