![]() ![]() ![]() The Electric Muse: the story of Folk into Rock. In Brazil Michel Teló covered the song, adapted to Portuguese, also for the movie. The original by Donovan was used in the film's ending titles. In 2015 the song was covered by Spanish singer Abraham Mateo for promotion of the film Minions. The music mix was done by the Dust Brothers. ![]() ![]() In 1999, "Mellow Yellow" was sung by a group of young adults, among whom were then-unknowns Alex Greenwald, Rashida Jones and Jason Thompson, in Gap's "Everybody in Cords" commercial directed by Pedro Romhanyi. It was also covered in 1968 by British R&B singer/keyboardist Georgie Fame on his album The Third Face of Fame. "Mellow Yellow" was covered in 1967 by soul singer Big Maybelle on her album Got a Brand New Bag. Reception Ĭash Box called "Mellow Yellow" an "easy-going, sophisticated blues number which should be a giant." Covers and adaptations In 2005, the track was remastered by EMI Records for the Mellow Yellow album re-issue. Donovan had a small part in coming up with the lyrics for " Yellow Submarine", and McCartney played bass guitar (uncredited) on portions of Donovan's Mellow Yellow album. Paul McCartney can be heard as one of the background revellers on this track, but the "quite rightly" whispering lines in the chorus is not McCartney, but rather Donovan himself. And that's what the song's about." This definition was re-affirmed in an interview with NME magazine: "it's about being cool, laid-back, and also the electrical bananas that were appearing on the scene – which were ladies' vibrators." "Really, you know the 'electric banana' was right in there and gave it away. Donovan stated, "I was reading a newspaper and on the back there was an ad for a yellow dildo called the mellow yellow," he said. According to Donovan's notes, accompanying the album Donovan's Greatest Hits, the rumour that one could get high from smoking dried banana skins was started by Country Joe McDonald in 1966, and Donovan heard the rumour three weeks before "Mellow Yellow" was released as a single.Īccording to The Rolling Stone Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll, he admitted later the song made reference to a vibrator an "electrical banana" as mentioned in the lyrics. The song was rumoured to be about smoking dried banana skins, which was believed to be a hallucinogenic drug in the 1960s, though this aspect of bananas has since been debunked. Outside the US, "Mellow Yellow" peaked at No. Âgé de 72 ans, Donovan continue de produire de la musique et de se produire sur scène." Mellow Yellow" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. Par la suite, Donovan a contribué à plusieurs des chansons les plus mémorables des Beatles, comme "Julia", "Yellow Submarine", ainsi qu'à de nombreux titres de l'Album blanc. En fait, Donovan a accompagné les Beatles lors de leur célèbre voyage de 1968 dans un ashram à Rishikesh, en Inde, pour étudier la méditation transcendantale avec le Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Les singles "Sunshine Superman" et "Mellow Yellow" ont atteint les numéros un et deux, respectivement, des palmarès américains en 1966.Įn dehors de sa propre carrière, la brillance artistique de Donovan, les accolades de l'industrie et son style de vie contre-culturel ont fortement influencé la célèbre période d'exploration psychédélique/spirituelle des Beatles. Sa musique n'était pas strictement rock ou pop, mais elle fonctionnait dans ces domaines à une époque où le psychédélisme dominait tout avec son approche exotique et sans frontières. Le travail de Donovan pendant cette période est décrit comme suit : Donovan a enregistré une douzaine de succès au Top 40 au cours de sa carrière, dont certains des titres les plus mémorables de l'époque comme "Mellow Yellow", "Sunshine Superman" et "Season of the Witch".Īvant cette incursion psychédélique, Donovan a mené une carrière plutôt réussie en tant que musicien folk, comme en témoignent les deux albums sortis en 1965, What's Bin Did and What's Bin Had - rebaptisé Catch the Wind aux États-Unis - et Fairytale.īien que l'on puisse entendre des indices de la capacité de Donovan à expérimenter des genres différents dans "Sunny Goodge Street" de Fairytale, sa carrière a atteint une catharsis avec et après la sortie de Sunshine Superman en 1966. Son intronisation en 2002 au Rock & Roll Hall of Fame confirme l'ingéniosité de Donovan qui a "initié à lui seul la révolution psychédélique" en mélangeant des éléments folkloriques, blues, jazz, classiques, latins et indiens. Le chanteur, auteur-compositeur et guitariste écossais Donovan Leitch est l'une des figures les plus influentes de l'explosion de créativité musicale des années 60. ![]()
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