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Songs with a colour in the title: A handy list

13 April 2021, 15:48

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By Tom Eames

From Van Morrison to Tom Jones, we've made this list of hit songs with colours in the title so you didn't have to.

Artists including Neil Diamond, Elton John, Sting, Prince and Kelly Clarkson have brought of some of the best colour-themed songs of all time.

So, whether you're playing the 30 Day Song Challenge, or you just love a geeky list, here's some of the biggest hits with colours in the title....

  1. The Beatles - 'Yellow Submarine'

  2. Elton John - 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road'

  3. Van Morrison - 'Brown Eyed Girl'

  4. Booker T & the MGs - 'Green Onions'

  5. Tom Jones - 'Green Green Grass of Home'

  6. Jimi Hendrix - 'Purple Haze'

  7. Donovan - 'Mellow Yellow'

  8. Bobby Vinton - 'Blue Velvet'

  9. Procol Harum - 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'

  10. The Moody Blues - 'Nights in White Satin'

  11. The Beatles - 'Blackbird'

  12. Freda Payne - 'Band of Gold'

  13. ELO - 'Mr Blue Sky'

    Read more: The Story of... 'Mr Blue Sky'

  14. Neil Diamond - 'Forever in Blue Jeans'

  15. UB40 - 'Red Red Wine'

  16. Spandau Ballet - 'Gold'

  17. Elton John - 'I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues'

  18. Prince - 'Purple Rain'

    Read more: The Story of... 'Purple Rain'

  19. Chris de Burgh - 'Lady in Red'

  20. Nena - '99 Red Balloons'

  21. Alannah Myles - 'Black Velvet'

  22. Sting - 'Fields of Gold'

  23. Dido - 'White Flag'

  24. Amy Winehouse - 'Back to Black'

  25. The Who - 'Behind Blue Eyes'

  26. Will Young - 'Evergreen'

  27. AC/DC - 'Back in Black'

  28. Kelly Clarkson - 'Behind These Hazel Eyes'

  29. Joni Mitchell - 'Big Yellow Taxi'

  30. All Saints - 'Black Coffee'

  31. Soundgarden - 'Black Hole Sun'

  32. Michael Jackson - 'Black or White'

  33. Eiffel 65 - 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)'

  34. New Order - 'Blue Monday'

  35. The Marcels - 'Blue Moon'

  36. The Rolling Stones - 'Brown Sugar'

  37. The Stranglers - 'Golden Brown'

  38. Prince - 'Little Red Corvette'

  39. Will Smith - 'Men in Black'

  40. REM - 'Orange Crush'

  41. The Rolling Stones - 'Paint it Black'

  42. Nick Drake - 'Pink Moon'

  43. The Psychedelic Furs - 'Pretty in Pink'

  44. Daniel Merriweather - 'Red'

  45. Nick Cave - 'Red Right Hand'

  46. Gene Autry - 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer'

  47. Bob Dylan - 'Tangled Up in Blue'

  48. Madonna - 'True Blue'

  49. Bing Crosby - 'White Christmas'

  50. Billy Idol - 'White Wedding'

  51. Coldplay - 'Yellow'

33 Best Songs with a Color in the Title

This article details the best songs with a color in the title!

Color is suggestive. Even though we experience it every day, hearing colors in song lyrics automatically helps us to conjure up images in our minds.

Artists, songwriters, and lyricists routinely use colors to give their music a much-needed visual punch. Below, we will list the 33 best songs with colors in the title. Let’s see how musicians use color to share messages with their listeners:

1. “Yellow Submarine” — The Beatles


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I don’t think there’s a better way to kick off our list than by mentioning this singalong classic from The Beatles. Widely considered one of the best Beatles songs and released in 1996, Paul McCartney wrote the song to critical acclaim. He wrote it with the lead drummer Ringo Starr in mind. History has shown that Ringo Starr always got a moment to shine in every album released by The Beatles.

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2. “Red” — Taylor Swift


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Taylor Swift has made a name for herself in the music industry through her extraordinary songwriting prowess. Her inspiration stems from her heartbreak experiences and romantic entanglements. In writing “Red,” Taylor sought to describe it as an intense color. A color commonly associated with confusion, love, frustration, and jealousy.

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3. “Purple Rain” — Prince


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You have to agree with me that this list wouldn’t have gone any further without mentioning a classic from this legend. Prince released tons of classical hits during his lengthy career, but “Purple Rain” was and will always remain a special song.
Purple Rain tells a story of love and loss, to which many believe there is nothing more potent in music.

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4. “Green-Tinted Sixties Mind” — Mr. Big


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As far as songs with colors in the title go, this is a personal favorite. I like it because of the guitar playing and chord progression. In this song, Mr. Big sings about a girl with a haunted past. The green tint referenced in the title refers to movies produced in the 60s. It appears most of the movies produced at the time had a shade of green tint.

5. “Yellow” — Coldplay


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Traditionally, yellow tends to have negative meanings, e.g., yellow journalism, yellow fever, yellow cards in soccer. But in this case, Coldplay uses this color to talk about showing devotion to a single person. Chris Martin, their lead singer, says that you can interpret it to mean someone you look up to in life. It doesn’t have to imply romantic feelings.

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6. “Blackbird” — The Beatles


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Blackbird by The Beatles is yet another example of great songs with a color in the title. It’s a classic that’s revered for its beautiful message and harmonic tune.
The song is not only inspirational, but it also stands out from most other songs in this list due to the birds chirping in the background. If you listen closely, you will notice that it also has a political meaning that touches on the civil rights struggles of the 1960s.

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7. “Pink” — Aerosmith


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I am pretty sure that this is one of those songs I don’t have to explain what it’s about, particularly to the older generation. For the younger generation who don’t know what it means, all I can say is that they will find out before it’s too long. Released in 1997, it’s a song that many will agree that it features among the best pop-rock songs from that era.

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8. “Black Magic” — Little Mix


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Little Mix uses this song to encourage and empower women to go after the men they want. The term “potion” features a few times in the song, which one can take as a metaphor for attracting men. You can see the meaning in the official video, where four nerdy-looking girls become transformed into strong women who go after the school bully for revenge purposes.

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9. “Welcome to the Black Parade” — Chemical Romance


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If you’re a true rock fan, then this song is for you. It’s one of those songs you can’t help but fall in love with, especially due to its anthem style. My Chemical Romance uses this title to deliver a one-of-a-kind moving collection. They start slow and steady before building up into an upbeat rock classic. You get to feel every drum beat and guitar stroke. What’s more, the message in the song talks about carrying on the memories shared with past loves.

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10. “Red Red Wine” — UB 40


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Anyone who has ever felt sad after a breakup with a lover should easily relate to the message contained in this song. The narrator talks about consuming large amounts of wine to help them drown out their sorrows. In terms of composition, Red Red Wine is a slow and lighthearted tune influenced by the reggae genre. People love it because it’s easy to relate to and dance to.

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11. “White Horse” — Taylor Swift


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White Horse from the 2008 album Fearless is yet another Taylor Swift hit with color in the title. She wrote this song to show her fascination with understanding the difference between fairy tales and reality. It talks about the fairy tales of thinking you’re in love, only to realize at a later date that this isn’t the case.

Next: Best songs with a hidden meaning or deep messages

12. “Black Widow” — Iggy Azalea


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Black Widow is among the most recent releases on this list. The upbeat pop song has a unique flare worth listening to, especially if you like songs released by modern female rappers. The title references the black widow spider known to have a highly poisonous bite. Using the lyrics, Iggy asserts that her love is no different from that of the black widow spider.

13. “Brown Eyed Girl” — Ivan Morrison


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No song captures the feeling of being in love and spellbound by a beautiful person than this 1967 release by Ivan Morrison. It uses the song’s first verse to paint a picture of two lovers enjoying their time in paradise. The narrator uses the following verse to reminiscence the time he shared with the brown-eyed girl. It’s a simple song, but one that’s highly recognizable.

Next: Best love songs ever made (our top list)

14. “Green Light” — Lorde


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Green Light serves as the first solo release from the Melodrama album. From a musical perspective, the single belongs to the electropop genre. Lorde released this song at the ripe age of twenty. She uses it to describe what she went through after experiencing her first real heartbreak. She uses the phrase “green light” as a metaphor for how long she had to wait before getting back on her feet and continuing with her journey.

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15. “Ebony and Ivory” — Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney


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The blockbuster team-up of Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney led to the release of one of the greatest hits of 1982. Both music legends get to duet on this mid-tempo song. McCartney uses the lyrics to suggest that white and black folks should coexist harmoniously, just like the piano keys.

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16. “Black the Sky” — King’s X


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Though not many people know this grime rock goodness of 1994, Black the Sky definitely deserves a mention in this list. The lyrics appear to describe the struggles that dUg Pinnick, the singer, and bassist endured in an attempt to try and fit in with others. It explicitly talks about situations where others placed certain expectations on him.

17. “Evergreen” — Will Young


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If I were to use a single word to describe this song, I would use “nostalgia.” The chances are that you have heard this song before but by a different artist. Or should I say, boy band? Westlife, the Irish boyband, originally recorded the title. Will Young later released his version in the form of a double A-side together with the single “Anything is Possible.” The title implies that true love always remains as fresh as when it first began.

18. “Black” — Pearl Jam


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This moody ballad composed by the Seattle quintets in 1991 received enormous airplay throughout the country, even though they didn’t release it as a single.
Eddie Vedder, the vocalist, uses a brilliant vocal to talk about doomed first relationships. Most people tend to assume that the lyrics imply an unwanted pregnancy, which isn’t the case.

19. “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” — Elton John


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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, released in 1973, is not only an incredible song, but it’s also a direct reference to The Wizard of Oz. Its lyrics talk about a desire to leave a life of fame and fortune behind in favor of a simpler lifestyle.

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20. “Lady in Red” – Chris De Burgh


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According to Chris De Burgh, he got the inspiration to write Lady in Red after observing his wife dancing amidst a crowd of people inside a club. The lyrics reminded him of their first encounter. However, Chris quickly noted that the song wasn’t mainly about his partner but about how we should appreciate those around us. Lady in Red was a global hit that topped the charts in 25 different countries.

21. “Blue Monday” — New Order


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New Order, a British synth-rock quartet widely popular in England, rose from the remnants of Joy Division. Joy Division was a legendary post-punk band.
Released in 1983, Blue Monday went on to become one of the most influential songs in British pop history. You can easily identify the song through its signature hook and opening drum pattern, which makes it an instant dance-floor filler to this day.

22. “Purple Haze” — Jimi Hendrix


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The song has all the hallmarks of a Jimi Hendrix rock classic. If you didn’t know, Hendrix’s influence helped make Rock music what it is today. His influence transcends his music and exists in every renowned guitar player. Many people assume that Purple Haze lyrics are all about substance abuse. However, Hendrix got the inspiration from a dream he had, which showed him walking underwater.
In his dream, he got engulfed by a purple haze before Jesus came along to save him.

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23. “Bluer than Blue” — Michael Johnson


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This pop breakup song was released in 1978. Michael uses blue as a color depicting sadness. It’s the feeling that most people experience after getting dumped. Its verse describes a brighter side that comes after the blue feeling has subsided. But this doesn’t last long, as Michael soon goes back to experiencing a “bluer than blue” feeling at the chorus. The lyrics imply that even though tons of things can make Michael happy after his lover leaves, none of them manages to bring him relief.

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24. “Pink Turns to Blue” — Husker Du


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Husker Du was a cult favorite that helped in inventing the genre known as indie rock. Pink Turns to Blue featured in their platinum-selling album Zen Arcade. Although loud and brush, the song talks about a fatal love affair that ends with a substance overdose. I found its lyrics a bit grim, but the music’s a bit uplifting.

25. “Fields of Gold” — Sting


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Although the title may sound a bit vague, anyone who has tuned into easy listening radio must have this song at one point or another. The lyrics point to a love triangle story, though Sting insists he got inspiration from the barley fields in England. He thought the fields were romantic the moment he first saw them. In his mind, he could see lovers using them as a meeting spot.

26. “Black or White” — Michael Jackson


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The songwriting efforts for Black and White were a collaboration between Michael and producer Bill Bottrell. Its lyrics help to awaken racial equality awareness. Michael used the songwriting process to express his opinions about racism and how racial equality affected those around him.

27. “Orange Crush” — R.E.M


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An American number one hit and a soaring anthem in 1988, Orange Crush helped usher in an era of Georgia college rock favorites.
Its lyrics contain subtle references to a defoliant (Agent Orange) extensively used during the Vietnam War. Younger and more innocent listeners may mistake its lyrics to imply a popular soft drink that shares the same name.

28. “Back to Black” — Amy Winehouse


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Released in 2006, Back to Black is among the most acclaimed Amy Winehouse songs. As is the case with most of her recordings, the song talks about a troubled relationship. Even though I mostly prefer her jazz-influenced songs to this particular number, I have to admit that it does have its moments.

29. “Black and Yellow” — Wiz Khalifa


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In an interview with the Journal, Khalifa stated that he wrote this song with his hometown of Pittsburgh in mind.
Its hip-hop-y rhythm and the repetition of black and yellow throughout the song helped the audience get into it.
I find that the song mainly appeals to listeners who lean towards the pop-rap genre.

30. “The Angels Want to Wear my Red Shoes” — Elvis Costello


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Released as the first single of his first album, My Aim is True, this single helped propel Costello into a fan favorite, with many loving his story-telling style. The lyrics talk about Costello trading his favorite red shoes for immortality. After the trade, he heads to the club to inform his girlfriend. It turns out his girlfriend isn’t impressed at all and instead dumps the singer before leaving with another guy. Depending on how you look at it, you could argue that the singer got the better deal.

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31. “Back in Black” — AC/DC


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Back in Black got released in 1980 and went on to become an instant AC/DC anthem. It came on the heels of their lead singers’ death. After the death of Brian Johnson, the group could have opted to call it quits but instead chose to find another lead singer. It signified much more than getting back to the singing arena.

32. “Old Yellow Bricks” — Arctic Monkeys


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“Old Yellow Bricks” is a song that must feature on any list that talks about songs with a color in the title. It’s a song that will have you tapping your feet from start to finish. For me, the highlight is the collaborative performance in the middle of the song between the drum set and the guitar strings. The lyrics at the song’s end, “Dorothy was right though,” were based on the Wizard of Oz film.

33. “Moody Blue” — Elvis Presley


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It served as the King’s last recording in the U.S and went on to put a decent performance in the top 40. Many fans believe that this song lacked the punch associated with his best works. However, it does prove that the King still had the willpower to deliver the goods this close to the end. Mark James penned “Moody Blue” and “Suspicious Mind,” another hit from the King.

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Lavender, Yellow tulips, Forget-me-not, Daisies, Pink roses and 15 more hits

Alla Pugacheva. Photo: globallookpress

Our ranking of the top 20 best songs about flowers presents a bunch of compositions arranged in chronological order by Alla Pugacheva, Natasha Koroleva, Zemfira, Ivanushki International, Night Snipers and other performers. Enjoy the aroma of memories and listen to time-tested hits!

1. The song “Oh, the viburnum is blooming”

  • Released: 1950
  • First performers: Klara Luchko, Ekaterina Savinova
  • Authors: Isaak Dunayevsky (music), Mikhail Isakovsky (words)
, viburnum blooms in a field near a stream. I fell in love with a young guy" , - for the first time these lines were heard in the film "Kuban Cossacks" directed by Ivan Pyryev. The film was conceived as a beautiful story about love and happiness - about what people lacked so much in the post-war years.

To compose the music for the film, Pyryev turned to composer Isaac Dunayevsky and poet Mikhail Isakovsky. The latter never considered himself a songwriter, although earlier many of his poems, set to music, went to the people. Moreover, he never wrote "to order" for the cinema. However, he nevertheless gave his consent, and the work began to boil. As a result, all five songs involved in the film were written by Isakovsky (although some, but not about viburnum, in collaboration with the poet Mikhail Volpin). And the composition “Oh, the viburnum is blooming” rightfully won popular love.

2. Song "Lilies of the valley"

  • First performer: Gelena Velikanova
  • Year of release: 1958
  • Authors: Oscar Feltsman (music), Olga Kleiner (lyrics)

According to the composer's memoirs, he wrote a song based on Feltsman's memoirs poems by the poetess Olga Kleiner (Fadeeva) literally in 15 minutes, gave it to the performer Gelena Velikanova and went to rest in the south, two weeks later received a letter from Velikanova stating that "Lilies of the valley" is now being sung by all of Moscow.

However, despite the huge popularity, the song soon fell under the rink of the Soviet worldview. On the “order” of the Central Committee of the CPSU, creative unions were looking for works that promote vulgarity, and the most “successful” example turned out to be “guilty” of their ingenuity “Lilies of the Valley” with their “small volume”. Even the term “lily of the valley literature” appeared, which supposedly conveyed an unjustifiably light attitude to life, an unwillingness to look deep into. It got to the point that in the composition they even saw attempts to morally corrupt the youth and anti-Soviet sentiments.

The persecution of the song by the authorities lasted for more than 20 years - while ordinary people adored these lines: “Today you brought me not a bouquet of lush roses, not tulips and lilies . ..”

Over the years “Lilies of the Valley "performed by Nina Dorda, Lyudmila Senchina, Elena Ionova, Yulia Ziganshina, Ekaterina Guseva and others.

3. Anna German "When the Gardens Bloomed"

  • Released: 1977
  • Authors: Vladimir Shainsky (music), Mikhail Ryabinin (lyrics)

“The gardens bloom once a year. Spring of love is expected once" - for the first time the song was performed at the final concert of the music festival "Song of the Year" in 1977. Anna Herman insisted that the composition must be performed live, and became the only one who worked on stage without a soundtrack. According to the memoirs of the composer Vladimir Shainsky, the audience greeted the song with a frantic ovation and asked to perform an encore. Usually, at concerts of a detailed kind, sharpened for television, the timing is calculated by the minute, and such liberties were not allowed. But in this case, an exception was made - the enthusiasm of the audience was so strong.

It is interesting that before Herman nobody wanted to take the song "When the Gardens Bloom" into their repertoire - probably because of the naive and too "pop" (although there was no such word then) text. However, the performer managed to present the story of the abandoned lyrical heroine in such a way that she became a real hit. Shainsky himself, having heard the song performed by Herman for the first time, exclaimed: “I didn’t even imagine that it could be sung like that!”

In the 90s "When the Gardens Bloomed" Lada Dance took to her repertoire. Her concerts are still not complete without this imperishable.

4. Mikhail Boyarsky "City Flowers"

  • Released: 1981
  • Authors: Maxim Dunaevsky (music), Leonid Derbenev (poetry)

The song "City Flowers" performed by Mikhail Boyarsky was first performed in the Soviet musical comedy "Where will he go" directed by Georgy Yungvald-Khilkevich. Subsequently, in 1983, Boyarsky released an album of the same name.

According to the memoirs of the composer Mikhail Dunayevsky, the poet Derbenev came to him with a single line ("city flowers, city flowers") and in full confidence that this was a future hit. Dunayevsky wrote the music, keeping only this phrase in his head, and only then Derbenev composed poems that fit the resulting melody.

However, the composer was not completely satisfied with the result - he thought that the song turned out to be too "tavern". In part, he was right - they really liked to perform this composition in restaurants: “City flowers, city flowers, you have captured my heart forever!”

  • Released: 1982
  • Authors: Raymond Pauls (music), Andrey Voznesensky (lyrics)

83 years on the air of the New Year's TV show "Attraction", which was filmed at the Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in Moscow. According to the plan, the prima donna was supposed to perform most of the composition on a swing swinging in the arena, the role of which was played by a circus trapeze. And at one fine (actually terrible) moment for the singer, the trapeze, contrary to plans, soared to a 20-meter height - and despite the fact that Pugacheva, of course, did not use any insurance. Not a single muscle trembled on the face of the star - she played her role to the end, only later confessing to her partner in the number - the illusionist Igor Kio, that the only thing she is afraid of in life is heights.

It should be noted that the plot of the song is based on the legend of the Georgian artist Niko Pirosmani, who was in love with the French actress Margarita de Sevres, and the Primadonna herself, to put it mildly, did not consider this composition among her favorites. “I rested my horn on the Million Roses. How I didn't love her! The more I didn’t love her, the more popular she became, ”recalled Alla Borisovna.

6. Lyudmila Senchina "Wildflowers"

  • Release year: 1983
  • Authors: Raymond Pauls (music), Andrey Kovalev

"Don't give me purchased flowers - gather me a bouquet of the field, so that I believe, so that you feel - these are our flowers, only our flowers" , - this song became one of the visiting cards of the "Cinderella of the Soviet stage" Lyudmila Senchina. She first performed it with her "crystal voice" at Blue Light in 1983.

The second wave of popularity overtook the song in 2018 - however, on a very tragic occasion: the performer died of cancer. Those whose youth fell at the peak of Senchina's creativity returned to their favorite compositions, including "Field Flowers", and the recording of this song on the net was again full of enthusiastic comments.

7. Sofia Rotaru and Jaak Yoala "Lavender"

  • Released: 1985
  • Authors: Vladimir Matetsky (music), Mikhail Shabrov (lyrics)

The song was commissioned by the Central Television of the USSR. Composer Vladimir Matetsky composed a measured, lyrical melody and offered to write a text about lavender to the poet Mikhail Shabrov. All that the latter knew about lavender was that there is such a remedy for moths, and he got into the encyclopedia, finding out that "mountain lavender" is such a medicinal flower. So the phrase “mountain lavender” began to spin in his head, but things did not go beyond this for a long time.

The situation was saved by Valentin Kataev's Youthful Romance, which once fell under the arm of Shabrov. The book contains the words: "Blue lavender flowers run from the mountains to the sea." They inspired the poet to the line "Our meetings with you are blue flowers." And then everything around her spun.

By the way, the idea that this composition should be performed by the duet of Sofia Rotaru and Jaak Yoala belongs to Alla Dmitrieva, editor of the Song of the Year festival, to whom the authors showed the newly written song. It was first performed on the air of the New Year's "Spark" 1985-1986 years. Subsequently, Philip Kirkorov and Nikolai Baskov became Rotaru's partners in composition.

8. Tender May "White Roses"

  • Released: 1987
  • Author: Sergey Kuznetsov

The song "White Roses" was written in December 1986 by Sergei Kuznetsov immediately after the first performance of the group "Tender May". “White roses, white roses are defenseless thorns. What did the snow and frost do to you, the ice of the blue shop windows? - these and other lines were born literally in a matter of minutes.

Recall that the musical group "Tender May", whose soloist was 13-year-old Yura Shatunov, was created in the Orenburg boarding school from among the students, and Kuznetsov himself was the leader of the circle. The guys recorded the song "White Roses" on a regular audio cassette, duplicated it and gave it to the judgment of the inhabitants of Orenburg. In this form, in 1988, she accidentally got through third parties to producer-manager Andrei Razin, who a few weeks later moved Tender May from Orenburg to the capital and began to “sculpt” stars out of boys.

The video for the song was filmed at the end of 1988, and its premiere on television took place in January 1989 in the Morning Post program. Both the composition and the video were a resounding success, and Yura Shatunov became a truly youth idol. On June 23, 2022, Yuri Shatunov passed away. He was 48 years old.

9. Merry Fellows "Pink Roses"

  • Released: 1989
  • Authors: Pavel Slobodkin (music), Natalia Plyatskovskaya (lyrics)

89" and still has not sunk into the river of oblivion: it is no-no - and even included on retro radio stations. According to some sources, the heroine of the composition had a real prototype, familiar to the poetess Plyatskovskaya, but what kind of girl she was and how her fate turned out - history is silent.

“Svetka Sokolova has a birthday – she is 30 today. I bring congratulations and a beautiful pink bouquet as a gift ", - the first to sing these lines was Alexei Glyzin, a former soloist of the VIA" Merry Fellows ". However, he soon went on a solo voyage, and the song beloved by the audience was “inherited” by Alexander Dobrynin, who replaced him in the group.

10. Natasha Koroleva "Yellow Tulips"

  • Released: 1990
  • Authors: Igor Nikolaev (music, lyrics) and Sergei Sigarev (lyrics)

rather experienced performer Natasha Koroleva. Returning in 1989 from the United States, where the 16-year-old singer toured as the lead soloist of the children's rock opera "Child of the World", Natasha preferred the opportunity to audition for the then-famous composer Igor Nikolaev to the offer to get an education in the States. The singer refutes the popular belief that the composition was written specifically for her: “I understand that it was already written by Igor, since several girls were eyeing him, including me. And he somehow distributed it to everyone at once by the song. So I got a song about yellow tulips,” she recalls.

Of all the contenders for cooperation with him, Nikolaev chose Koroleva, and this was a turning point in her fate - both creative and personal. Thanks to the Yellow Tulips, the performer became famous throughout the country and made it to the final of the Song of the Year festival.

11. Song "Wedding Flowers"

  • Released: 1991
  • First performers: Rose sisters
  • Authors: Igor Krutoy (music), Igor Nikolaev (lyrics)

The premiere of the song "Wedding Flowers" took place on the "Song of the Year-1991" - the composition was performed by the bright and charismatic Rose sisters. The twins Dina and Ella were already famous among Russian emigrants in the United States, where they came from, and they still had to gain popularity among the Russian public. The sisters-performers began to work together with the creative tandem of Igor Krutoy and Igor Nikolaev, and the song in question was one of the fruits of this cooperation.

However, some time later, Igor Krutoy gave the composition to Irina Allegrova, who in the 90s was just starting her solo career. In the characteristic manner of the singer's performance - with a "signature" hoarseness in her voice - and in a new arrangement, the song acquired fresh shades of mood, was included in the album "I'll part the clouds with my hands" (1996) and was remembered by the listeners: "Wedding flowers were whiter than snow. You smiled at me - it was like in a dream.

12. Zemfira "Daisies"

  • Released: 1999
  • Author: Zemfira Ramazanova

The somewhat frivolous song "Daisies" was included in Zemfira's debut album "Zemfira". The phrase “Hello, daisies!” that sounds like a refrain in it! - in fact, a playful remark that Zemfira Ramazanova, who at that time worked at the Europa Plus radio station in Ufa, greeted her colleagues. And the image of a “girl with a player” was quite suitable for the performer herself.

Interestingly, the demo version of the song used the keyboard part, which was performed by Zemfira herself. And the drum parts, which also remained in the final version of the composition, echo one of the songs of the famous British band The Chemical Brothers.

13. Dances minus "Flowers"

  • Released: 2000
  • Author: Vyacheslav Petkun

The song "Flowers" was included in the second album of the group "Dances minus" "Flora / Fauna". Then some music critics said that the album does not have a central composition that holds the rest of the songs around it, and there are no potential hits either. However, they were mistaken - the disc became quite successful, and the radio stations willingly took many tracks into rotation, including "Flowers". “Flowers are blooming - neither I nor you can pick them anymore” , the satisfied fans sang along. And the group itself was awarded the Golden Gramophone award for this song.

By the way, fans of "Flowers" also remember an unusual clip directed by Lina Ovdienko - it is full of graphic effects, and in general, within the framework of that time, it was quite fresh and unbanal.

14. Night snipers "You gave me roses"

  • Release year: 2002
  • Authors: Diana Arbenina

“You gave me roses – the roses smelled of wormwood. She knew all my songs, moved her lips ... " - a composition with these lines was included in the fourth studio album "Tsunami" by the Night Snipers group. It is this disc that the leader of the band, Diana Arbenina, calls "cult" and associated with "the strongest emotions" that will surely "overwhelm you." And the song "about roses" was overwhelmed by a wave of popularity.

Arbenina to this day considers it one of the most beloved by the public and says that the composition has a fictional plot, and was created in one breath. “You know what is the most amazing thing? I still haven't gotten tired of it. There are songs that quickly tire. But “You gave me roses,” written so many years ago, every time sounds like a cool good joke to me, and I perform it with a buzz,” Diana noted on her social media page.

15. Ivanushki International “Lilac Bouquet”

  • Released: 2003
  • Authors: Igor Matvienko (music), Alexander Shaganov (lyrics)

"10 Years in the Universe", and in 2004 she was awarded the "Stop Hit" music award. The director of the video for this composition was Dmitry Zakharov, who spoke about his offspring like this: “I wanted romance, but instead of it, they ended up shooting banter.” Sparrow Hills with the facade of Moscow State University, attractions in the park of culture, a story about a typical love triangle, a dance tune - the video has everything to make fans sing: “Don't you feel sorry for this bouquet of lilacs? For your sake, all the parks bloom in summer, believe me.

16. Philip Kirkorov and Masha Rasputina "Tea Rose"

  • Released: 2003
  • Authors: Kai Metov (music), Vladimir Stepanov (lyrics)

The night was written at the request of Masha Rasputina by her family friend Kai Metov to the verses of the children's writer Vladimir Stepanov, who sometimes peed on an adult audience. Rasputina and Metov recorded a duet, but they did not take it into rotation. For some time the composition was gathering dust on the shelf, after which it was decided to give it a second chance. That's just Masha's partner this time was Philip Kirkorov. In a duet with the king of the stage, which Rasputina called "an explosive mixture", things went uphill. “Masha immediately said that it was a hit. And when the song was first heard on the radio, a flurry of calls followed, ”Kirkorov recalled.

The music video added to the popularity of the song, in which the performers appeared in the form of the French King Louis XIV and his mistress Angelique de Fontange. Kai Metov performs "Tea Rose" at his solo concerts.

17. Chile "Chamomile field"

  • Released: 2011
  • Authors: Egor Solodovnikov Chile" (CHI-LLI) as a separate single. And almost immediately a video was filmed for it. As you might guess, the main action in it takes place in a field overgrown with "fortune-telling" flowers.

    Lovely love story, where soloist Irina Zabiyaka played one of the two main roles, and beautiful summer shots, captured in nature 30 km from Kyiv, appealed to fans. And the performer herself very warmly recalls the period of filming, calling them very positive. “The video has the idea of ​​freedom, happiness and, of course, romance. The clip reflects and conveys my world, ”she announced a new video at the time.

    18. Loya "Dark Scarlet Roses"

    • Released: 2012
    • Authors: Olga Zasulskaya

    The song "Dark Scarlet Roses" was included in the debut (and only) album "Loya", which Olga Zasulskaya released during the "single voyage" in the sea of ​​show business - after leaving the group "5sta Family" and before returning back to the team. The song was originally released as a single and seemed to be about love for a young man. But the video that appeared later (by the way, the debut in a solo career) clarified the situation - this is a story about the love of a father and daughter, and it is dedicated to the singer's dad. “And inside it is raining and a rainbow - I would give everything for a minute in his gentle hands” , - a very touching plot playing on the strings of the soul turned out.

    19. Tim Belorussky "Forget-Me-Not"

    • Released: 2018
    • Authors: Timofey Morozov

    "Forget-Me-Not" is Tim Belorussky's hit, which made him truly famous. Forget-me-not is your favorite flower. An air kiss will become the most bitter ”, - at one time the lines sounded literally from every iron. According to the members of the young performer's team, the musical arrangement of the song deliberately contains some kind of roll call with musical trends 90s - these are the trends among young people today.

    It is interesting that this song has a common clip with "Wet Crosses" - the first composition that Tim Belorussky once announced himself. The video was announced as a "small musical film" with "easter eggs" inside.

    20. Niletto "Lilac"

    • Year of release: 2020
    • Authors: Andrey Popov (music), Danil Prytkov (lyrics)

    - an album by the artist, released in the spring of 2020 and called "Simple". By the way, Niletto announced the release of the new record with a snippet with a live version of "Lilac" in an "apartment" format. And the day after the release, the fans were pleased with the mood-video for "Lilac", which in fact is not much different from the full-fledged clip: rhythmic dances in unpaired sneakers (this is a kind of feature of the video) against the backdrop of a high-rise building and an empty playground (recall, it was in March 2020 - the very beginning of the pandemic, and fans noticed the relevance of the shots).

    In less than a day, the video soared to the 37th line of YouTube trends, and Niletto's fans began to sing along: "Lilac blossoms on your lips, a lilac bouquet on my lips ..."

    20 best songs about flowers - 1 - All about Music - August 21 - 43749223036

    In this ranking of Top 20 best songs about flowers, a bouquet of songs arranged in chronological order is presented. Enjoy the aroma of memories and listen to time-tested hits!

    1. “Oh, blooms Kalina”

    • Exit year: 1949
    • First performers: Klara Luchko, Ekaterina Savinova
    • Authors: Isaac Dunaevsky (Music), Mikhail Isakovsky (words)

    “Oh, the viburnum is blooming in the field by the stream. I fell in love with a young guy" , - for the first time these lines were heard in the film "Kuban Cossacks" directed by Ivan Pyryev. The film was conceived as a beautiful story about love and happiness - about what people lacked so much in the post-war years.

    To compose the music for the film, Pyryev turned to composer Isaac Dunayevsky and poet Mikhail Isakovsky. The latter never considered himself a songwriter, although earlier many of his poems, set to music, went to the people. Moreover, he never wrote "to order" for the cinema. However, he nevertheless gave his consent, and the work began to boil. As a result, all five songs involved in the film were written by Isakovsky (although some, but not about viburnum, in collaboration with the poet Mikhail Volpin). And the composition “Oh, the viburnum is blooming” rightfully won popular love.

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According to the memoirs of the composer Oscar Feltsman, he wrote a song to the verses of the poetess Olga Kleyner (Fadeeva) in just 15 minutes, gave it to the performer Gelena Velikanova and went to rest in the south, two weeks later received a letter from Velikanova that " Lilies of the Valley" is now sung by all of Moscow.

However, despite the huge popularity, the song soon fell under the rink of the Soviet worldview. On the “order” of the Central Committee of the CPSU, creative unions were looking for works that promote vulgarity, and the most “successful” example turned out to be “guilty” of their ingenuity “Lilies of the Valley” with their “small volume”. Even the term “lily of the valley literature” appeared, which supposedly conveyed an unjustifiably light attitude to life, an unwillingness to look deep into. It got to the point that in the composition they even saw attempts to morally corrupt the youth and anti-Soviet sentiments.

The persecution of the song by the authorities lasted more than 20 years - while ordinary people adored these lines: “Today you brought me not a bouquet of lush roses, not tulips and lilies ...”

In different years “Lilies of the Valley "performed by Nina Dorda, Lyudmila Senchina, Elena Ionova, Yulia Ziganshina, Ekaterina Guseva and others.

30011 Authors: Vladimir Shainsky (music), Mikhail Ryabinin (lyrics)

“Once a year the gardens bloom. Spring of love is expected once" - for the first time the song was performed at the final concert of the music festival "Song of the Year" in 1977. Anna Herman insisted that the composition must be performed live, and became the only one who worked on stage without a soundtrack. According to the memoirs of the composer Vladimir Shainsky, the audience greeted the song with a frantic ovation and asked to perform an encore. Usually, at concerts of a detailed kind, sharpened for television, the timing is calculated by the minute, and such liberties were not allowed. But in this case, an exception was made - the enthusiasm of the audience was so strong.

It is interesting that before Herman nobody wanted to take the song "When the Gardens Bloom" into their repertoire - probably because of the naive and too "pop" (although there was no such word then) text. However, the performer managed to present the story of the abandoned lyrical heroine in such a way that she became a real hit. Shainsky himself, having heard the song performed by Herman for the first time, exclaimed: “I didn’t even imagine that it could be sung like that!”

4. City Flowers

  • Release year: 1981
  • Authors: Maksim Dunayevsky (music), Leonid Derbenev (poetry)

The song "City Flowers" was performed for the first time by the musical comedian Mikhail Kudya get away" directed by Georgy Yungvald-Khilkevich. Subsequently, in 1983, Boyarsky released an album of the same name.

According to the memoirs of the composer Mikhail Dunayevsky, the poet Derbenev came to him with a single line ("city flowers, city flowers") and in full confidence that this was a future hit. Dunayevsky wrote the music, keeping only this phrase in his head, and only then Derbenev composed poems that fit the resulting melody.

However, the composer was not completely satisfied with the result - he thought that the song turned out to be too "tavern". In part, he was right - they really liked to perform this composition in restaurants: "City flowers, city flowers, you have captured my heart forever!"

5. “Million scarlet roses”

  • Exit year: 1982
  • Authors: Raimond Pauls (Music), Andcensky (words)

The TV premiere of the song "A Million Scarlet Roses", which later became one of Alla Pugacheva's calling cards, took place in January 1983 on the air of the New Year's TV show "Attraction", which was filmed at the Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in Moscow. According to the plan, the prima donna was supposed to perform most of the composition on a swing swinging in the arena, the role of which was played by a circus trapeze. And at one fine (actually terrible) moment for the singer, the trapeze, contrary to plans, soared to a 20-meter height - and despite the fact that Pugacheva, of course, did not use any insurance. Not a single muscle trembled on the face of the star - she played her role to the end, only later confessing to her partner in the number - the illusionist Igor Kio, that the only thing she is afraid of in life is heights.

It should be noted that the plot of the song is based on the legend of the Georgian artist Niko Pirosmani, who was in love with the French actress Margarita de Sevres, and the Primadonna herself, to put it mildly, did not consider this composition among her favorites. “I rested my horn on the Million Roses. How I didn't love her! The more I didn’t love her, the more popular she became,” recalled AllaPugacheva

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6. Wildflowers

  • Released: 1983
  • Authors: Raimonds Pauls (music), Andrey Kovalev

"Don't give me purchased flowers - gather me a bunch of field flowers so that I believe, so that you feel - these are our flowers, only our flowers ", - this song has become one of the calling cards of the "Cinderella of the Soviet stage" Lyudmila Senchina. She first performed it with her "crystal voice" at Blue Light in 1983.

The second wave of popularity overtook the song in 2018 - however, on a very tragic occasion: the performer died of cancer. Those whose youth fell at the peak of Senchina's creativity returned to their favorite compositions, including "Field Flowers", and the recording of this song on the net was again full of enthusiastic comments.

7. Lavender

  • Exit year: 1985
  • Authors: Vladimir Matetskiy (music), Mikhail Shabrov (Words)

The song was born according to order Central Television of the USSR. Composer Vladimir Matetsky composed a measured, lyrical melody and offered to write a text about lavender to the poet Mikhail Shabrov. All that the latter knew about lavender was that there is such a remedy for moths, and he got into the encyclopedia, finding out that "mountain lavender" is such a medicinal flower. So the phrase “mountain lavender” began to spin in his head, but things did not go beyond this for a long time.

The situation was saved by Valentin Kataev's Youthful Romance, which once fell under the arm of Shabrov. The book contains the words: "Blue lavender flowers run from the mountains to the sea." They inspired the poet to the line "Our meetings with you are blue flowers." And then everything around her spun.

By the way, the idea that this composition should be performed by the duet of Sofia Rotaru and Jaak Yoala belongs to Alla Dmitrieva, the editor of the Song of the Year festival, to whom the authors showed the newly composed song. It was first performed on the air of the New Year's "Spark" 1985-1986 years.

8. “White Roses”

  • Output: 1987
  • Author: Sergey Kuznetsov

Song “White Roses” was written in December 1986 by Sergey Kuznetsovs. after the first performance of the group "Tender May". “White roses, white roses are defenseless thorns. What did the snow and frost do to you, the ice of the blue shop windows? - these and other lines were born literally in a matter of minutes.

Recall that the musical group "Tender May", whose soloist was 13-year-old Yura Shatunov, was created at the Orenburg boarding school from among the students, and Kuznetsov himself was the leader of the circle. The guys recorded the song "White Roses" on a regular audio cassette, duplicated it and gave it to the judgment of the inhabitants of Orenburg. In this form, in 1988, she accidentally got through third parties to producer-manager Andrei Razin, who a few weeks later moved Tender May from Orenburg to the capital and began to “sculpt” stars out of boys.

The video for the song was filmed at the end of 1988, and its premiere on television took place in January 1989 in the Morning Post program. Both the composition and the video were a resounding success, and Yura Shatunov became a truly youth idol.

9. “Pink roses”

  • Exit year: 1989
  • Authors: Pavel Slobodkin (music), Natalya Porotskovskaya (words)
9000 was the laureate of the festival "Song of the Year-1989" and still has not sunk into the river of oblivion: it is no-no - and even included on retro radio stations. According to some sources, the heroine of the composition had a real prototype, familiar to the poetess Plyatskovskaya, but what kind of girl she was and how her fate turned out - history is silent.

“Svetka Sokolova has a birthday – she is 30 today. I bring congratulations and a beautiful pink bouquet as a gift ", - the first to sing these lines was Alexei Glyzin, a former soloist of the VIA" Merry Fellows ". However, he soon went on a solo voyage, and the song beloved by the audience was “inherited” by Alexander Dobrynin, who replaced him in the group.

10. “Yellow Tulips”

  • Exit year: 1990
  • Authors: Igor Nikolaev (music, Sergey Sigarev (Words)

DOT about "messengers of parting" became fatal for the young, but already quite experienced performer Natasha Koroleva. Returning in 1989 from the United States, where the 16-year-old singer toured as the lead soloist of the children's rock opera "Child of the World", Natasha preferred the opportunity to audition for the then-famous composer Igor Nikolaev to the offer to get an education in the States.

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