Colours- Bad Day At Black Rock, Baby

From the self titled debut album, 'Colours' (1968). This song is known as one of the best examples of orchestrated psych.

The copyright of this music is held and owned by Universal Music.

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[cgboomer]

hey brakeman-

i would love to hear "love heals" again [i think that was the title. the refrain was "do you love one another?"]. it got a lot of air play when it came out. it was on the flip side of their 45 with "bad day" but i cannot locate it on youtube. do you have it?

[Brakeman]

@cgboomer Yes I have Love Heals too, I'll try to get it on here soon.

[nicobitles]

yeah colours ! great album

this guys is the same band the moon ?

[Brakeman]

Songwriters Jack Dalton & Gary Montgomery formed Colours and on the second and final album (Atmosphere), members of The Moon were the backing musicians...

[geotune]

back in the day, my wife, my sister, her husb, and i played bridge almost every night after work, drank iced tea, smoked pot, and listened to colours and emitt rhodes. great to hear bad day at blackrock. ordered complilation, but it is delayed.

[tonfan]

brilliant bass player Carl Radle on this album...

[he17ba]

Really a great song. If you would care to visit my channel you will se that I've uploaded a tribute video to Colours. Not this song, but another from the same album. Have fun.

see ya

Henning

[smokeemonkee]

This album was a cut-out bin staple.

[Dominantcarnivore]

I've been searching for this song for months but all I could remember was the chorus of - "Bad day at black rock, baby, bad day today."

Haven't heard this since the '60s or '70s

Nice one.

[SEVFEST]

@cgboomer ... I Have the Colours album on CD if you need any of the songs on MP3 just write me with the addy you want them sent to !!!!

[00RockyAngel00]

Great tune - does it have anything to do with the film of the same name?

[cgboomer]

brakeman- that would be great if you can post love heals. thanks!

[Ezdduf4kuZ]

Never heard this song before, and I understand it goes back, way back to those days of The British Invasion, of music. How come it wasn't played here in Vancouver Canada (1968 ). I was constantley listening to the radio if I wasn't working/watching tv..I knew the Top 40, but this # illuded me! Perhaps it was played for a few....well anyway there's always something new on youtube & it appears I got some catching up to do. thx4 postin'

[57RickH]

I picked up this LP back in a cut-out bin in the mid-70's...wore the grooves out of it. This track is a great indicator of the rest of the record...a definite must for lovers of the Beatlesque! A bit of trivia about this band & album: a short bit of one of their songs can be heard in an episode of the late 60's sit-com, "Family Affair" when Buffy & Jody are watching a TV show with a popular music group playing. My personal favorite track on the above album is "Cataleptic".