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City and Colour

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Interesting facts and trivia about City and Colour. By Songfacts®.

City and Colour is the alias of Dallas Green, a singer-songwriter from St. Catherine's, Ontario who was previously the vocalist/guitarist for Canadian hardcore band Alexisonfire. The moniker is a play on his actual name: Dallas being a city and Green being a colour. The singer picked the alias because he "felt queasy releasing an album under the name Dallas Green."

In 2008, singer-songwriter Dallas Green told a Toronto radio station that he was indeed named after the Major League Baseball pitcher, manager, and executive of the (almost) same name. The MLB's George Dallas Green played for the Philadelphia Phillies and two other teams before managing the Phillies to their first World Series win ever in 1980.

In 2012, Dallas Green appeared on the popular preschool show Kids' CBC, where he performed his song "The Girl" with slightly different lyrics. The tune was re-titled "The Gift" and was and the new lyrics were about buying presents for Mamma Yamma, a puppet on the show.

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