


Dutch Top 40 Chart positions: week 48 in 1966 t/m 4 in 1967 The picture was twelve weeks in the Billboard Hot 100 peaking at place number 2. In the United Kingdom took the eighth place in eight weeks. In Netherlands and Belgium was then only one chart available. The song was used in an advertising campaign for a Mello Yello citrusdrankje of Coca Cola Company in the years 80. Mellow yellowis a single by Donovan. It is from his album Mellow yellow. The song is about drugs. At the time, did the story circulating that dried banana peels would have a hallucinogenic effect. Research has shown that that very probably was not the case. The rumor what fellow in the world helped by Country Joe McDonald. Later gave Donovan that the number also refers to the use of a vibrator ( electrical banana is gonna be a sudden craze).Īt the time, the song also called The Beatlesascribed to. Donovan then worked together with those music group and Paul McCartney sang along on Mellow yellow and seems to have appeared on other songs from the corresponding LP by Donovan. On the other hand, Donovan a small contribution to Yellow Submarine.Ī number of covers of the song is known, but none was as popular as the original. There seems to be a French text (under the same title) and also a Italian: Cielo giallo.
