I get lots of requests from listeners, most of which I can’t fulfill because I sold my dueling pistols many years ago. When someone suggested that I try to make the program more colorful, immediately after my legal team informed me that I couldn’t sue for slander, I decided to give it a go. Below is my colorful solution – songs and/or singers or musicians with colorful names. (I know that Billie Holiday isn’t a color. But you know who took the solo on that cut? Urbie Green!)
SONG TITLE / Artist / CD Or Album Title
- BLUE SKIES / Johanna Sillanpaa / “From this Side”
- SERENADE IN BLUE / Kevin Mahogany / “Old, New Borrowed, and The Blues”
- THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC / Claire Teal / “At Your Request”
- LITTLE RED ROOSTER / Mark Jennett / “The Way I Am”
- I SHOULD CARE / Kelly Green / “Life Rearranged”
- BEING GREEN / Mark Murphy / “Once In Every Heart”
- THEY CAN’T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME / Katerina Brown & Kenny Washington / “Mirror”
- LA VIE EN ROSE / Chloe Perrier / “Petite Fleur”
- WHEN THE RED, RED ROBIN / (Mystery Verse) / Molly Lyons / “Verses Only!”
- ON GREEN DOLPHIN STREET / Johnny Hartman / “For Trane”
- EASY TO REMEMBER / Billie Holiday / “Lady In Satin”
- SOMETHING’S COMING / Andre Previn, Shelly Manne, Red Mitchell / “The Nearness Of You”
- I’VE NEVER BEEN ANYTHING / Ronny Whyte / “Whyte Wolf”
- BORN TO BE BLUE / Ella Fitzgerald / “Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie”
- WE’VE GOT A WORLD THAT SWINGS / Tom Rust & John Horler / “Lucky To Be Me”
- THE GIRAFFE SONG / Audrey Silver / “Let Me Know Your Heart”
- HOUSE OF GOLD / Kenny Rankin / “The Kenny Rankin album”
- BLACKBIRD/BYE BYE BLACKBIRD / Sara Gazarek & Josh Nelson / “Dream in The Blue”
- MEN ARE ALL ALIKE / (Mystery Vocalist) / Shirley Temple Black / “Shirley Temple Storybook Collection”
- YELLOW DAYS / Frank Sinatra & Duke Ellington / “Francis A. & Edward K.”
- THAT’S ALL / Ray Blue / “Work”
- SCOTCH AND SODA / Kellye Gray / “Blue & Pink: The Blue Songs”
- BLACK COFFEE / Bonnie Pointer / “That’s A Plenty”
- PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine
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