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Edith Bowman sits in with a Thursday Theme: traffic lights!

August 5 is International Traffic Light Day, so the Thursday Theme is traffic lights! Send your song suggestions to: edith.bowman@bbc.co.uk

Edith Bowman sits in, and our Thursday Theme is traffic lights!

On 5 August 1914, the first electric traffic signal was installed at the corner of Euclid Avenue and East 105th Street in Cleveland, Ohio in the US.

The colours red, amber, and green were borrowed from the railway signalling system, which had used them for decades before they were adapted for road use.

So we're celebrating this by doing a Traffic Light Themed Thursday Theme! Any songs involving red, green, orange, amber, lights, Go, Stop, wait…

Send your song suggestions to: edith.bowman@bbc.co.uk

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Music Played

  • Westside Cowboy

    Dobro

    • It Goes On.
    • Island Records.

  • Incubus

    Are You In?

    • Morning View.
    • Epic/Immortal.
    • 11.

  • Kelela & PinkPantheress

    the bridge

    • New Avatar.
    • Warp.

  • Rachel Chinouriri

    One Song Away From Crying

    • Parlophone UK.

  • Apache Indian

    Boom Shack-A-Lak

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 26 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Queens of the Stone Age

    Easy Street

  • The Beatles

    Eleanor Rigby [VINYL]

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 016.

  • Fatboy Slim

    Praise You

    • Now 1999 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Cast

    Calling Out your Name

    • Scruff Of The Neck.

  • Charli xcx

    Wink Wink (Live at the BBC)

  • Brooke Combe

    Your Love Was Made Of Stone

    • (CD Single).
    • Fontana UK.

  • Suzanne Vega

    Tom's Diner

    • Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing.
    • A&M.

  • Dragonflies

    Slower

    • Dark Horse Records/BMG.

  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Crosstown Traffic

    • The Jimi Hendrix Collection.
    • Universal.

  • Lorde

    Green Light

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin EMI.

  • The Maccabees

    Pelican

    • Fiction.

  • The Police

    Roxanne

    • Now That's What I Call An Era: Sound Of The Suburbs (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Supremes

    Stop! In The Name Of Love

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Moby

    Go

    • Now 35 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Sam Brown

    Stop!

    • Woman (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv/Sony Tv.

  • Billy Ocean

    Red Light Spells Danger

    • Billy Ocean - Love Is For Ever (L.I.F.
    • Jive.

Broadcast

  • Thursday19:30
    BBC Radio 2