She Comes in Colors

Lee wrote it about a girlfriend who wore bright, colorful clothes, according to Echols. Recorded at RCA Studios in late September 1966 as part of the Da Capo sessions, it pairs a flute with a harpsichord. Echols called it the most difficult song the band did, because of its strange chords, and said he was proud that jazz musicians asked how the group had come up with it. Stuart-Ware, who played drums, called the flute and harpsichord duet groundbreaking. The song's guitar intro starts softly and builds at the chorus.

It came out as a single in December 1966, replacing Stephanie Knows Who as the A-side of a record backed with Orange Skies. It received heavy airplay in Los Angeles and reached the local charts, but not the Hot 100. Richie Unterberger of AllMusic has called it perhaps Lee's best composition.

Its afterlife is long. The Rolling Stones quoted the line about coming in colors, uncredited, in their 1967 single She's a Rainbow. The Hoosiers covered it, Janet Jackson sampled it, and Madonna's 1999 hit Beautiful Stranger borrowed from its melody, as the producer William Orbit later admitted. Lee was credited as a writer on that song.