30 Day Song Challenge

My buddy, Matt posted a 30 day song challenge on Facebook.  Each day consists of a different “type” of song.  The idea is to post one song for each suggested daily theme.  As someone who believes that music is one of life’s most important things, and as someone who has worked with music for 30 years professionally, this opens up a huge door!

What will follow over the next few blogs will be either 1) music lists 2) a combination of one or more of the suggestions from Matt’s post, and/or 3) stories about the songs listed.  I encourage reader participation on some of these, because I always love to hear about other people’s tastes in music, too!

Day 1:  A Song You Like With a Color in the Title:

For today’s challenge – I have made a list.  I tried to think of as many color songs as I could (keep in mind these are, for the most part, songs I like) and made the following list.  I could probably go into detail of why I like each song, or what I like about each one, but because the list is a long one, I will leave it in list form.

COLOR SONGS

Baby Blue – Badfinger

Baby Blue – George Strait

Baby’s In Black – Beatles

Back in Black – AC/DC

Black Betty – Ram Jam

Black Cat – Janet Jackson

Black Hole Sun – Soundgarden

Black Horse and the Cherry Tree – KT Tunstall

Black Magic Woman – Santana

Black or White – Michael Jackson

Black Water – Doobie Brothers

Long Black Train – Josh Turner

That Old Black magic – Louis Prima

Paint it Black – The Rolling Stones

Blue Bayou – Linda Ronstadt (Roy Orbison)

Blue Christmas – Elvis Presley (and countless others)

Blue Moon – The Marcels (Dean Martin)

Blue Monday – Fats Domino

Blue Sky – Emily West

Mr. Blue Sky – ELO

My Blue Heaven – Fats Domino (and others)

Devil with a Blue Dress – Mitch Ryder

Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown – Jim Croce

Brown Sugar – The Rolling Stones

Charlie Brown – the Coasters

Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter – Herman’s Hermits

Lady in Red – Chris De Burgh

Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue – Toby Keith

Little Red Riding Hood – Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs

Little Red Corvette – Prince

Ol’ Red – Blake Shelton

Red Dirt Road – Brooks and Dunn

Red, Red, Wine – UB40

Red Rubber Ball – Cyrkle

White Wedding – Billy Idol

Dirty White Boy – Foreigner

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John

Pretty Fly for a White Guy – Offspring

Yellow Submarine – The Beatles

Eighteen Yellow Roses – Bobby Darin

Green Eyed Lady – Sugarloaf

Green Onions – Booker T & The MG’s

Green River – CCR

Maxwell’s Silver Hammer – The Beatles

Mood Indigo – Duke Ellington

Purple Rain – Prince

Pink Cadillac – Bruce Springsteen

Pink Houses – John Mellencamp

YOUR TURN –

Now, I want YOU to add to my list!  Either post your color song in the comments, or you came here through my Facebook page, you can add them to the comments of that post.

Happy coloring……