Weekly Thread of Many Colours

[Lexi Darling]

The Chemical Brothers - Orange Wedge

Not one of my favorite Chem Bros. tracks, but yeah, limited options haha.

[Mindy]

[Lisnaholic]

Okay well this week is gonna be hard!

ORANGE

I can only get two...

"Oranges on Apple Trees" by A-ha

Some low-hanging fruit you somehow missed, Trollheart, although the first one you all but cut up and handed to me on a plate:-

Al Stewart instrumental, "Once An Orange", from the album of the same colour:-

Not fruit, and not memorable, is "Orange And Red Beams":-

[Trollheart]

Off we go again then. Easier this time, the colour is
GREEN

"Green Eyes" by Nick Cave

"This Green and Pleasant Land" by Pendragon

"Fiddler's Green" by The Dubliners

[Rubber Soul]

[Lexi Darling]

My favorite Jethro Tull album, and one of my favorite songs on it.

[Lisnaholic]

In the UK, this was a total smash hit for Tom Jones in 1966:

Tom Jones is typically introduced as "Welsh singer, Tom Jones" and is famous for being the son of a coal miner (whether true or not, who cares). Anyway, I naturally assumed that he was singing about the green green grass of Wales, but learn from wiki that it's an American song:-

 

"Green, Green Grass of Home", written by Claude "Curly" Putman Jr., and first recorded by singer Johnny Darrell in 1965, is a country song made popular by Porter Wagoner the same year, when it reached No. 4 on the Country chart.[2] It was also recorded by Bobby Bare and by Jerry Lee Lewis, who included it in his album Country Songs for City Folks (later re-issued as All Country). Tom Jones learned the song from Lewis' version and, in 1966, he had a worldwide No. 1 hit with it.

Congrats to songwriter Curly Putman Jr for writing lyrics with such international details; it can apply to any country where grass and oaktrees grow, or where girls are called Mary.

[fire]

The Green Groves of Erin / The Flowers of Red Hill
by The Bothy Band

[fire]

Dunlavin Green
by Karan Casey
from the album Ships in the Forest 2008

[Mindy]