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Coffee Break: Blue

What songs do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?
What songs do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?Patrick Shuck/Crayola, via NPR

by Anna Reed

May 11, 2017

A new blue pigment called YInMn (yin-min) was discovered in 2009 by Mas Subramanian, a chemistry professor at Oregon State University, and it was the first new blue pigment in 200 years.

Crayola is running a contest to name their new blue crayon based on this pigment, and it's got us thinking blue today.

So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that mention blue in the lyrics?

Thanks to Tom Reed (who is hellbent on winning this contest) for today's theme suggestion.

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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Songs played:

Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky
The Jayhawks - Blue
Ken Nordine - Azure
Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans
The Replacements - Sixteen Blue
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Jackie Blue
The Black Angels - Indigo Meadow
Badfinger - Baby Blue