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the spectrum song

When I was little, I would watch The Wonderful World of Disney almost purely in the hopes of seeing Donald Duck’s uncle, Ludwig Von Drake, sing The Spectrum Song. I’m not sure why I was convinced that the colours would be different every week. I later found out that the cartoon was a good 30 years old and came out in celebration of colour television! No luck finding a high quality version of the cartoon on YouTube but this video is pretty good mood-enhancing colour therapy for a grey day in Vancouver (minus the short but slightly eye burning tie-dye section…)

POSTED ON April 13, 2011

LABELS: brands & shops, many colours, music, film & tv   3 Comments   Tweet This

3 comments

Kristi
April 13, 2011 at 8:48 pm


I totally forgot about this! It brought back memories… my favourite part is “and AQUA!” :)

plentyofcolour
April 13, 2011 at 11:16 pm


Ha! Yep, the aqua part is pretty funny :) I like the confusion at the end for some reason. Especially the random addition of plaid?

Catriana
April 18, 2011 at 11:46 am


‘What ever happened to plain old lavender blue dilly dilly…silly’….fabulous!!

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