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THIS MOTHER FUCKING SONG IS A PIECE OF SHIT AND WHY THE FUCK DO YOU EVEN HAVE THIS ON WIKIPEDIA?!?!?!?!?! O AND BY THE WAY, YOUR DADDY IS GONNA DIE!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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{{Infobox Single <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Songs --> |
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| Name = Mellow Yellow |
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| Artist = [[Donovan]] |
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| from Album = [[Mellow Yellow (album)|Mellow Yellow]] |
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| B-side = "Sunny South Kensington" <small>(USA)</small><br />"Preachin' Love" <small>(UK)</small> |
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| Released = [[24 October]] [[1966]] <small>(USA)</small><br />February 1967 <small>(UK)</small> |
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| Format = [[7" single]] |
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| Recorded = September 1966 |
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| Genre = [[Pop music]] |
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| Label = Epic 5-10098<br />Pye 7N 17267 |
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| Writer = Donovan |
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| Producer = [[Mickie Most]] |
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| Chronology =Donovan UK |
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| Last single = "[[Sunshine Superman]]" <br />(1966) |
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| This single = "Mellow Yellow"<br />(1967) |
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| Next single = "[[There is a Mountain]]"<br />(10/1967) |
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| Misc = {{Extra chronology 2 |
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| Artist =[[Donovan]] USA |
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| Type =singles |
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| Last album ="[[Sunny Goodge Street]]"<br />(1966) |
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| This album ="Mellow Yellow"<br />(1966) |
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| Next album ="[[Epistle to Dippy]]"<br />(2/1967) |
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"'''Mellow Yellow'''" is a song and single release by [[Donovan]]. It reached #2 on the Billboard charts in the U.S. in [[1966]]. |
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The song was rumored to be about smoking dried banana skins, which was [[Bananadine|believed to be a hallucinogenic drug]] in the 1960s, but this rumor has since been debunked. According to Donovan's notes accompanying the album ''[[Donovan's Greatest Hits]]'', the rumor that one could get high from smoking dried banana skins was started by [[Country Joe McDonald]] in 1966, and Donovan heard the rumor three weeks before "Mellow Yellow" was released as a single. (According to ''The [[Rolling Stone (magazine)|Rolling Stone]] Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll'', he admitted later the song made reference to a [[vibrator (sensual)|vibrator]]; an "electrical banana" as mentioned in the lyrics.) The phrase "mellow yellow" appears on page 719 of the first American edition of ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'', where it is used to refer to Mrs Marion Bloom's buttocks, but it is not known if Donovan got the phrase from there. And it is definitely out of the question, that the title refers to Owsley's celebrated "Yellow (or orange) Sunshine" batch of LSD, something that would also be suggested by Donovan's "Sunshine Superman", or is it? |
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The record had a "Beatlesque" feel to it, and was sometimes mistaken for a [[Beatles]] song. Donovan in fact was friends with the Beatles. Donovan had a small part in coming up with the lyrics for "Yellow Submarine" and [[Paul McCartney]] played [[bass guitar]] (uncredited) on portions of Donovan's ''Mellow Yellow'' album.<ref>''The Paul McCartney World Tour'', 1989 tour book</ref> |
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[[Cadbury plc|Cadbury]] used a modified version of the song to promote their [[Caramello Koala]] chocolates ("They call me Caramello... Koala"). |
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In France, [[Lipton]] used a modified version of the song to promote their tea ("They call me Lipton Yellow"). |
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In 1999, "Mellow Yellow" was sung by a group of young adults — among which were then-unknowns [[Alex Greenwald]], [[Rashida Jones]] and [[Jason Thompson (actor)|Jason Thompson]] — in [[Gap (clothing)|Gap's]] "Everybody in [[Corduroy|Cords]]" commercial directed by Pedro Romhanyi. The music mix was done by the [[Dust Brothers]].<ref>[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,270600,00.html Mind the Gap] in: [[Entertainment Weekly]] #502 (Sep 10, 1999)</ref> |
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Chart positions were #2 <small>(USA)</small> and #8 <small>(UK)</small>. |
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==References== |
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{{reflist}} |
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{{Donovan}} |
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{{1960s-song-stub}} |
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[[Category:1966 singles]] |
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[[Category:Donovan songs]] |
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[[Category:Songs produced by Barry Scott]] |
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Revision as of 16:26, 27 October 2008
THIS MOTHER FUCKING SONG IS A PIECE OF SHIT AND WHY THE FUCK DO YOU EVEN HAVE THIS ON WIKIPEDIA?!?!?!?!?! O AND BY THE WAY, YOUR DADDY IS GONNA DIE!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!