So it’s about being cool, laid-back, and also the electrical bananas that were appearing on the scene, which were ladies’ vibrators.” ‘They call me Mellow Yellow, I’m the guy who can calm you down.’ John Lennon and I used to look in the back of newspapers and pull out funny things and they’d end up in songs.
Asked what the song was actually about, Donovan said, “Quite a few things. In a recent interview Donovan said that Mellow Yellow came up in a party in a hotel room, where he started making up the chords and lyrics so that all his friends could sing along. Most of these interpretations concerned drugs, but there were even rumors that the song was about abortion. The title song, Mellow Yellow, was released as a single the previous November, and became a huge hit in both sides of the Atlantic. 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.ĭonovan set out to capture the mellow vibe of the ’60s with this song, adding what he called “cool, groovy phrases.” These phrases were interpreted in ways he never imagined, as people came up with lots of ideas as to what the song meant.
2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1966 and No. This was supposed to release the banana’s hallucinogenic qualities, but that aspect of banana skins has since been debunked. Mellow Yellow (WORD) (22.3 KB) Mellow Yellow (PDF) (63.5 KB) Mellow Yellow (3.81 KB) ' Mellow Yellow' is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer/songwriter Donovan.
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Back in the 60s, it was believed that dried banana skins could be turned into a hallucinogenic drug by scraping the fibers off of a banana skin and cooking them over a low fire. Written in graffiti on a bridge in a park Do you ever get the feeling that youre missing the mark Its so cold, its so cold Its so col. Yeah, they were all yellow I came along I wrote a song for you And all the things you do And it was called 'Yellow' So then I took my turn Oh what a thing to have done And it was all yellow Your skin Oh yeah your skin and bones Turn into something beautiful Do you know You know I love you so You know I love you so I swam across I jumped across. According to Wikipedia, the song was rumored to be about smoking dried banana skins. It reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966. 'Really, you know the 'electric banana' was. “Mellow Yellow” was written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. 'I was reading a newspaper and on the back there was an ad for a yellow dildo called the mellow yellow,' he said.
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