# Songs about Rainbows

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rainbows/847994>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [February 15, 2020, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rainbows/847994 "2020-02-15T22:48:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rainbows/847994/41 "2020-02-21T14:08:18Z")

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[A Rainbow in Curved Air](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGnjgpFafpU) by Terry Reilly?

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rainbows/847994/42 "2020-02-21T15:12:56Z")

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I don’t have a clip handy, but when Apollo Creed hosted SNL many years ago, he sang a few lines of some song mentioning a rainbos.

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rainbows/847994/43 "2020-02-21T15:20:01Z")

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> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#):
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> I don’t have a clip handy, but when Apollo Creed hosted SNL many years ago, he sang a few lines of some song mentioning a rainbos.

Carl Weathers, about 2 minute into this clip from 01-30-1988, [Watch Saturday Night Live Clip: Carl Weathers Monologue - NBC.com](https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/carl-weathers-monologue/n9670)

But warning, his singing is terrible. The song is named “What About a Rainbow”

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**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rainbows/847994/44 "2020-02-21T15:31:37Z")

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Oh, come on! How could you not mention “[Double Rainbow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX0D4oZwCsA)”? It was literally the first one I could think of.

[My favorite cover](http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIMR8EqpYjE).

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**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rainbows/847994/45 "2020-02-21T15:36:00Z")

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Rolling Stones - [She’s A Rainbow.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH-0eqA0gJ4)

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**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rainbows/847994/46 "2020-02-21T15:49:03Z")

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[Rainbow - Stargazer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVXy1OhaERY)

After the wizard falls from his tower, his dismayed followers, suddenly without a purpose, see a rainbow on the horizon.

_Look at my flesh and bone  
Now, look, look, look, look  
Look at his tower of stone  
I see a rainbow rising  
Look there, on the horizon  
And I’m coming home, coming home, coming home_

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**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2020, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rainbows/847994/47 "2020-02-22T01:53:48Z")

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[Look To the Rainbow](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3TVh0A7XDNA) from the musical/movie, “Finian’s Rainbow”.

Look, look, look to the rainbow;  
Follow it over the hill and stream.  
Look, look, look to the rainbow;  
Follow the fellow who follows a dream.

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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2020, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rainbows/847994/48 "2020-02-22T02:43:00Z")

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> [@racer72](#):
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> Rolling Stones - [She’s A Rainbow.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH-0eqA0gJ4)

Yes. As mentioned in the OP.

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**Author:** ![chancetx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@chancetx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chancetx)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-rainbows/847994/49 "2020-02-25T11:22:30Z")

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[Gonna Find A Rainbow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EPo_E9SIx8) - The Brady Bunch kids (please don’t ban me!)

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