Neon Rainbow
"Neon Rainbow" is a song written by Wayne Carson Thompson and made famous by Memphis blue-eyed soul band The Box Tops.
About
The track is featured on The Letter/Neon Rainbow. The song starts with the lyrics "The city lights, the pretty lights, They can warm the coldest nights" and as they suggest, the song is about neon signs that come on at night and make even the city's coldest nights seem warm. The lyrics continue "But in the daytime everything changes, Nothing remains the same. No one smiles anymore, And no one will open his door. Until the night time comes. And then the..." suggesting that the city's inhabitants stay inside during the day and come out only at night.
Petula Clark recorded the song for her 1970 album "Memphis" and Rita Pavone made an Italian version with the title Il mondo nelle mani (The world in the hands).
Afterlife of song
From September 2009, Neon Rainbow was featured in the TalkTalk TV advertising campaign, and is their hold music.
Chart performance
Billboard Hot 100 (9 weeks): Reached #24
Podcasts:
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by The Box Tops
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by Box Tops
Neon Rainbow
by: The Box TopsNEON RAINBOW
The Box Tops
Wayne/Carson/Thompson)
The city lights, the pretty lights
They can warm the coldest nights
All the people going places
Smiling with electric faces
What they find the glow erases
What they've lose the glow replaces, and life is love.
In a neon rainbow, a neon rainbow.
Moving lights, flashing sights
Blinking faster than your mind
Leading people with suggestions
Leaving no unanswered questions
You can live without direction
And if don't have to be perfection, and life is love.
In a neon rainbow, a neon rainbow.
But in the daytime everything changes
Nothing remains the same, no one smiles anymore
Ad no one willopen his door
Until the night time comes, and then the ...
City lights, the pretty lights
They can warm the coldest nights
All the people going places
Smiling with the electric faces
What they find the glow erases
And what they lose the glow replaces, and life is love.
In a neon rainbow, a neon rainbow, a neon rainbow.