I Can Sing a Rainbow

"I Can Sing a Rainbow" is a popular [cite news |title=Ed Balls red-faced after 'Singing a Rainbow' |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1575102/Ed-Balls-red-faced-after-%27Singing-a-Rainbow%27.html |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=2008-01-11 |accessdate=2008-09-03 ] children's classiccite news |title=Delta beats Hogan in attraction stakes |url=http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,15206811-1702,00.html |work=news.com.au |date=2005-05-07 |accessdate=2008-09-03 ] song written by Arthur Hamilton. The song has been used to teach children names of colors.cite web|url=http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/singarainbow.htm|title=I Can Sing A Rainbow|publisher=National Institutes of Health, Department of Health & Human Services] cite web|url=http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-songs-rainbow.htm|title=I can sing a rainbow|publisher=British Council] However, despite the name of the song, not all the colors mentioned are actually colors of the rainbow.

A recording of the song in a medley with "Love is Blue" by the Dells reached number 22 in the US pop charts in 1969. [cite book |title=Hit Records, 1950-1975 |last=Lonergan |first=David F. |year=2005 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810851290 |pages=p. 89 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NP6OdDrutyAC&pg=PA89&dq=%22I+Can+Sing+a+Rainbow%22+%2BDells&num=100&as_brr=3&sig=ACfU3U1LEhnjaTettsyINyPu58_Z4_rZTw |accessdate=2008-09-03] In 2005 Delta Goodrem sang the song in a US TV advertisement for Tourism Australia.

It was also the opening theme song for the Philadelphia children's TV show, "Captain Noah and His Magical Ark".

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