Pink is a colour that is a pale tint of red and is named after the flower of the same name. It was first used as a colour name in the late 17th century. In optics, the word “pink” can refer to any of the pale shades of colours between bluish red to red in hue, of medium to high lightness, and of low to moderate saturation. Although pink is generally considered a tint of red, the colours of most tints of pink are slightly bluish, and lie between red and magenta. A few variations of pink, such as salmon colour, lean toward orange. According to surveys in Europe and the United States, pink is the colour most often associated with charm, politeness, sensitivity, tenderness, sweetness, childhood, femininity and romance. A combination of pink and white is associated with chastity and innocence, whereas a combination of pink and black links to eroticism and seduction.
“Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White” is the English version of “Cerisiers Roses et Pommiers Blancs”, a song with music by Louiguy written in 1950. French lyrics to the song by Jaques Larue and English lyrics by Mack David both exist, and recordings of both have been quite popular. However, Perez Prado’s recording of the song as an instrumental with his orchestra featuring trumpeter Billy Regis, whose trumpet sound would slide down and up before the melody would resume, was the most popular version in 1955, reaching number one for 10 weeks on the Billboard chart. Pérez had first recorded this title for the movie Underwater (1955), where Jane Russell can be seen dancing to the song. Billboard ranked the former version as the No. 1 song of 1955.
“The Pink Panther Theme” is an instrumental composition by Henry Mancini written as the theme for the 1963 film The Pink Panther and subsequently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score at the 37th Academy Awards. The eponymous cartoon character created for the film’s opening credits by David DePatie and Friz Freleng was animated in time to the tune. The tenor saxophone solo was played by Plas Johnson. The song was included on the film’s soundtrack album and issued as a singles (in the United States) in 1964; the single reached the Top 10 on the Billboard and won three Grammy Awards.
Lydia Estes Pinkham was an American inventor and marketer of an herbal-alcoholic “women’s tonic” for menstrual and menopausal problems, which medical experts dismissed as a quack remedy, but which is still on sale today in a modified form. Pinkham and her “medicinal compound” are memorialized in the folk song “The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham”, also known as “Lily the Pink“. Drinking songs describing the humorous invigorating effects of some food or medicine form are widespread, and the fact that Pinkham’s medicine was marketed for “female complaints” made it especially vulnerable to ribald fantasies about what it might cure. A sanitized version of “Lily the Pink” was a number one hit for The Scaffold in the UK in 1968/69.
“Pink Cadillac” is a song by Bruce Springsteen released as the non-album B-side of “Dancing in the Dark” in 1984. The song received moderate airplay on album-oriented rock radio and appeared on the Billboard Top Tracks chart for 14 weeks, peaking at No. 27. The song was also a prominent concert number during Springsteen’s Born in the USA tour. The song uses automobile travel as a metaphor for sexual activity, Springsteen, in fact, vetoed the first attempt by a female singer to release a version of “Pink Cadillac”, that being Bette Midler in 1983. However, “Pink Cadillac” had its highest profile incarnation via an R&B interpretation by Natalie Cole, which became a top-ten single in 1988.
“Pretty in Pink” is a song by the Psychedelic Furs, originally released in 1981 as a single from the band’s second album, Talk, Talk, Talk. The 1986 film was named after the song and a re-recorded version of the song was included on its soundtrack. The original version of “Pretty in Pink” peaked at No. 43 in the UK in July 1981. AllMusic writer Bill Janovitz credited producer Steve Lillywhite for finding “the ideal sound for the band, with a perfect blend of classic pop, punk, and art rock elements”. Janovitz called it “the definitive take” of the song. The 1986 version reached No. 18 in the UK and narrowly missed the Top 40 on the Billboard.
“Pink Champagne ” is an unreleased song by Ariana Grande, It was written by Grande, Pete Sebert, Damon Sharpe and Matt Squire. The song was released to YouTube in 2013 and was exensively performed by Grande during the Honeymoon Tour in 2015.
