"What Colour Is The Wind" by Charlie Landsborough caught my eye or even ears the other day. It's a song that I hadn't heard for quite a long time.
Apparently Charlie was given Christmas presents like books and clothes and a friend gave him the following sentence to write a song: " What colour is the wind?" It's something a blind child asks It's father. The giver of the song title said they couldn't do anything with it but perhaps Charlie could?
Charlie made the line into a song and became a recording and singing star in his fifties.
I love the song and the child's imagination.
So readers I have a question for you: What colour is the wind?
It is any colour you wish it to be. Just close your eyes and you will see it.
ReplyDeleteWhere do you get your knowledge JayCee? Do you talk to the wind? Wasn't the blind childs question profound?
ReplyDeleteThe colour of one's wind varies according to what we have eaten in the previous hours. I had a chicken biryani last Thursday night and the resulting wind was the colour of turmeric.
ReplyDeleteBlowing in the wind? I wonder how many wind related songs there are?
Delete"Wind the bobbin up! Wind the bobbin up!"
DeleteI found 47 song wind titles YP care of Professor Google YP. Dust In The Wind by a certain Prog Rock band from Topeka is my favourite one of course.
DeleteWhy, I expect it changes colors! A gentle zephyr is perhaps a pastel color, much different from a blustery gale or a snowstorm, or a tornado. I expect actually that the wind comes in the same colors as a mood.
ReplyDeleteGreat thoughts Debby. Perhaps the winds colours are like the moons?
ReplyDeletePossibly very different for every person who thinks in colours - warm colours, cool colours, colours for speed and colours for laziness. If you told a blind child that the wind was red, how would they even know what that was? How would you describe red?
ReplyDeleteYes you're right Tigger's Mum how would you describe a colour to a blind person? Our eyes must be the most precious of our senses.
DeleteThe wind is every colour, depending on where it blows. The wind is a rainbow. I like Charlie Ladnsborough, though not all of his songs, I have two favourites on my playlist, "Lover's Chain" and "Love You Every Second".
ReplyDeleteI like that River. The wind is a 🌈. Will give those 2 songs a listen, thanks.
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