Tommy James & The Shondell's - Crimson and Clover - 1968

Speaking about collor: There are paintings and there are Rembrandts. This is a Rembrandt. And a real Rembrandt is made in a specific time period. "Crimson and Clover" is a masterpiece from a specific time era when masterpieces have been made.
Oh and Rembrandt's favorite collor? Crimson.

Tommy James constructed this slice of psychedelia from his favorite color and his favorite flower. In a Songfacts interview with Tommy James, he said: "They were just two of my favorite words that came together. Actually, it was one morning as I was getting up out of bed, and it just came to me, those two words. And it sounded so poetic. I had no idea what it meant, or if it meant anything. They were just two of my favorite words. And Mike Vale and I – bass player – actually wrote another song called 'Crimson and Clover.' And it just wasn't quite there. And I ended up writing 'Crimson and Clover' with my drummer, Pete Lucia, who has since passed away."
Many songs need to be cut down before radio stations will play them, but this was the opposite. The song was only 2 1/2 minutes long, so they spliced together an extended version for FM radio. If you listen to that version, you can hear some really bad edits.
"Crimson and Clover" covered the world and peaked the charts in various country's. #1 in the US Billboard hot 100

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