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Turquoise

Formed:
1966 in Muswell Hill, North London

Disbanded:
1969

  • Genre: Rock
  • Active: '60s
  • Representative Album: "The Further Adventures of Flossie Fillett: The Complete Recordings"

Biography

Turquoise was a British pop-psych group who only officially released two singles in their short existence as a band, but the four songs on those two releases became beloved by collectors of the genre, and led to a complete album of the band's surviving recordings being released some 40 years later. The group, who initially called themselves the Brood, was formed in North London's Muswell Hill area in 1966 by Jeff Peters, Ewan Stephens, and Vic Jansen (a fourth member, Barry Hart, was added later), who were all friends and neighbors of the Kinks' Ray and Dave Davies. Dave Davies produced a batch of demos for the Brood in 1966, and a second batch was produced by the Who's Keith Moon and John Entwistle a year later in 1967. Eventually the Brood was signed to Decca Records, and after a name change to Turquoise, released two wonderful double-sided singles, "'53 Summer Street"/"Tales of Flossie Fillett" and "Woodstock"/"Saynia," but neither release really took off, and the band called it quits in 1969. Peters and Hart went on to form Slowbone, releasing an album, Tales of a Crooked Man, in 1974. Collectors of the Kinks/Who/Small Faces/Move style of 1960s British pop discovered the two singles, however, and Turquoise became a sort of long-lost cult band, resulting in Rev-Ola releasing all of the Brood's and Turquoise's surviving demos, alternate takes, and of course, the two singles, on disc in 2006 as The Further Adventures of Flossie Fillett: The Complete Recordings. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

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Wikipedia: Turquoise (color)
Turquoise
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Hex triplet #40E0D0
RGBB (r, g, b) (64, 224, 208)
Source X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
The water of Havasu creek is turquoise due to high concentrations of dissolved lime picked up as it runs through sedimentary rock.
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The water of Havasu creek is turquoise due to high concentrations of dissolved lime picked up as it runs through sedimentary rock.

Turquoise is a slightly greenish shade of cyan. The color is based on the gem turquoise. The term comes from the French for Turkish.

The first recorded use of Turquoise as a color name in English was in 1573. [1]

The mosque with turquoise domes in Buhara
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The mosque with turquoise domes in Buhara




Variations of Turquoise

Pale Turquoise


Pale Turquoise
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Hex triplet #AFEEEE
RGBB (r, g, b) (175, 238, 238)
HSV (h, s, v) (175°, 84%, 94%)
Source X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the web color pale turquoise.

Medium Turquoise


Medium Turquoise
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Hex triplet #48D1CC
RGBB (r, g, b) (72, 209, 204)
HSV (h, s, v) (175°, 55%, 50%)
Source X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the web color medium turquoise.

Dark Turquoise


Dark Turquoise
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Hex triplet #00CED1
RGBB (r, g, b) (0, 206, 209)
HSV (h, s, v) (175°, 40%, 94%)
Source X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the web color dark turquoise.

Turquoise in human culture

Astrology
Color mixing
  • Turquoise is sometimes described as a mixture of pale blue and green.
Geography
  • In slang form, the phrase "The Turquoise" refers to the waters of the Caribbean, which are shallow and therefore take on the color in sunlight.
Medicine
  • In holistic medicine, the color turquoise purportedly has a calming effect on patients, and is particularly used to treat patients prone to panic attacks or mania. To a lesser degree, mainstream psychiatric hospitals also use turquoise and other light shades of blue and green to calm patients by painting the walls in these colors.

References

  1. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 206; Color Sample of Turquoise [green]: Page 73 Plate 25 Color Sample I5

See also

  Shades of cyan  
Alice blue Aqua Aquamarine Baby blue Bondi blue Cerulean Cyan Electric blue Pine green Robin egg blue Teal Turquoise Viridian
                         


 
 

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