True Colors
Song by Cyndi Lauper
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Search complete. 25 mentions across 8 episodes found for "True Colors".
Sep 30, 2026
Justin TwyfordHOST
That gu- it's cool.
Justin TwyfordHOST
[laughs] I, I was listening to a new album that was just released, uh, True Colors, the 40th anniversary expanded edition by Cyndi Lauper.
Stu LennonHOST
Good heavens.
Justin TwyfordHOST
Which I thought was cool.
Terry GallowayGUEST
She used to self-harm.
Terry GallowayGUEST
She, you know, sh- sh- you know, she, she used to sit in her room with all her animals and, you know, just contemplate and overthink life, but she'd always be listening to, to True Colors by Cyndi Lauper.
Terry GallowayGUEST
And, and when you kind of look at the lyrics, it's really apt for, for people that are going through that situation.
Terry GallowayGUEST
So yeah, that, that'd be the one
Catherine WilliamsonHOST
Well, let's listen to that song now in memory of Hazel.
Cyndi LauperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But I see your true colors shining through.
Cyndi LauperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I see your true colors, and that's why I love you.
Cyndi LauperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So don't be afraid to let them show.
Ben EisenHOST
We had The Spinners with I'll Be Around.
Ben EisenHOST
We had Cyndi Lauper with True Colors.
Ben EisenHOST
We had Kenny Loggins and Stevie Nicks, Whenever I Call You Friend.
Ben EisenHOST
Aww.
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Mike AxelsenGUEST
Did Friendship by Tenacious D make the first list?
Ben EisenHOST
No.
Ben EisenHOST
With a little help from my friends, we talked about Cyndi Lauper, True Colors.
Mike AxelsenGUEST
Good one.
speaker_13SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Because you know I'll be there And I'll see
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
your true colors True colors are beautiful like a rainbow.
Tim MalcolmHOST
So we'll come down off of that into, obviously, like an anthem of anthems for the community at this time and beyond.
Tim MalcolmHOST
It is Cyndi Lauper's 1986 pop classic, True Colors.
Chris JonesHOST
Is this the first one from 100 songs that we did during the Hall of Songs, isn't it? Is it? Is it the first one?
Tim MalcolmHOST
Yeah, I think that's right.
Tim MalcolmHOST
Steinberg wrote the song about his mom.
Tim MalcolmHOST
They offered it to Canadian singer Anne Murray, who refused, which is great.
Simon OwensHOST
I'm actually just going to read you what Paul wrote here.
Simon OwensHOST
Cyndi Lauper has released The River Cried, a song she began recording during the sessions for her 1986 album True Colours, but she left unfinished and off the final record.
Simon OwensHOST
40 years later, she's returned to the song and completed it for the newly released True Colours 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition, giving a song written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly its first official Lauper release.
Simon OwensHOST
So 1986, I don't know about you, but for me, 1986 was just a pivotal time in my music tastes and love.
Simon OwensHOST
True Colours was just a wonderful, wonderful album.
Simon OwensHOST
So let's have a listen to it.
Simon OwensHOST
I haven't actually heard this.
Susan BortnickGUEST
Just call me up, because I will always be there.
Susan BortnickGUEST
And I see your true colors shining through.
Susan BortnickGUEST
I see your true colors, and that's why I love you.
Susan BortnickGUEST
So don't be afraid to let them show your true colors.
Susan BortnickGUEST
True colors are beautiful.
Susan BortnickGUEST
I see your true colors shining through.
Susan BortnickGUEST
I see your true colors.
Susan BortnickGUEST
And that's why I love you.
Susan BortnickSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Just call me up because I will always be there.
Susan BortnickSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I see your true colors shining through.
Susan BortnickSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I see your true colors and that's why I love you.
Susan BortnickSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So don't be afraid to let them show your true colors true colors are beautiful I see your true colors shining through I see your true colors.
Susan BortnickSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And that's why I love you.
Susan BortnickSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So don't be afraid to let them show.
Susan BortnickSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Your true colors are beautiful.
Susan BortnickSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
like a rainbow like a
ChrisHOST
And then this one, also a number two hit from 1986, called Typical Male.
ChrisHOST
This song actually spent three weeks at number two between October 18th and November 1st of 1986, kept out of the top spot first by Janet Jackson's When I Think of You, and then was leapfrogged by Cyndi Lauper's True Colors, two more '80s icons.
ChrisHOST
This is song number 1511, Tina Turner and Typical Male.
ChrisHOST
Let's take a listen.