PEGGY LEE - - I CAN SING A RAINBOW

I CAN SING A RAINBOW

PEGGY LEE

SONGWRITER: ARTHUR HAMILTON

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: PETE KELLY’S BLUES

LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1955

 

       Norma Deloris Egstrom(May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002), known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress, over a career spanning seven decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, Lee created a sophisticated persona, writing music for films, acting, and recording conceptual record albums combining poetry and music.

      Lee recorded over 1,100 masters and composed over 270 songs.

         "I Can Sing a Rainbow," also known simply as "Sing a Rainbow," is a popular song written by Arthur Hamilton. It was featured in the 1955 film Pete Kelly's Blues, where it was sung by Peggy Lee.

          The song has been used to teach children names of colours. Despite the name of the song, two of the seven colours mentioned ("red and yellow and green, pink and purple and orange and blue")–pink and purple– are not actually a colour of the rainbow(i.e. they are not spectral colors; pink is a variation of shade, and purple is the human brain's interpretation of mixed red/blue [see line of purples]). They are also not presented in order of the visible light spectrum.

…Red and yellow and pink and green

Purple and orange and blue

I can sing a rainbow

Sing a rainbow

Sing a rainbow too

 

…Listen with your eyes

Listen with your ears

And sing everything you see

I can sing a rainbow

Sing a rainbow

Sing along with me

 

…Red and yellow and pink and green

Purple and orange and blue

I can sing a rainbow

Sing a rainbow

Sing a rainbow too.