Color sounds

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Color Sounds was a series of shows made by PBS in the mid 80's that taught English using music videos. Typically a music video aired with the lyrics shown in karaoke style on the bottom of the screen. As an example of how the show worked; if they were doing a noun search then every noun in the lyrics was highlighted in red, or another video there would be a verb search and only verbs were highlighted, and so on. The show also corrected spelling and bad grammar in the original lyrics, so that for instance the word "rockin'" would be changed to "rocking" but highlighted in yellow.