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Mellow Yellow (other)
" Mellow Yellow" is a 1966 song by Donovan. Mellow Yellow may also refer to: * ''Mellow Yellow'' (album), the Donovan album on which the song appears * Mellow Yellow coffeeshop, an Amsterdam cannabis shop * Mello Yello, a soft drink *King Mellow Yellow King Mellow Yellow (born in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican Dancehall DJ. Being one of three popular albino DJs in the 1980s (Yellowman, Purpleman and King Mellow Yellow), in song, he often referred to himself as "The Yellow Hands". Career ..., a Jamaican deejay See also * Bananadine {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mellow Yellow
"Mellow Yellow" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. In the US, it reached No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Outside the US, "Mellow Yellow" peaked at No. 8 in the UK in early 1967. Content 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. 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. According 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. Donovan stated, "I was reading a newspaper and on the back there was an ad for a yellow dildo called the mellow y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mellow Yellow (album)
''Mellow Yellow'' is the fourth album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the US in February 1967 ( Epic Records LN 24239 (monaural) / BN 26239 (rechanneled stereo), but not released in the UK because of a continuing contractual dispute that also prevented '' Sunshine Superman'' from a UK release. In June 1967, a cross-section of both albums was released as ''Sunshine Superman'' (Pye Records NPL 18181) in the UK. "Mellow Yellow" was the name of Donovan's hit single released the previous November. History The songs on ''Mellow Yellow'' represent a transition in Donovan's writing. Donovan's songs had previously illustrated his infatuation with an ability to define the mid-sixties pop music scene. On ''Mellow Yellow'' this is still evident in "Sunny South Kensington", "Museum" (originally recorded for the '' Sunshine Superman album'' and rerecorded for ''Mellow Yellow'') and the title track, but is also tempered with world-weary observations of that scene (" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mellow Yellow Coffeeshop
Mellow Yellow was the oldest cannabis coffeeshop in Amsterdam. It was squatted in 1972 then moved to a new building in 1978. It was forced to close at the start of 2017. History The cannabis coffeeshop was founded in 1972 by the hippie Wernard Bruining and friends in a squatted former bakery on Weesperzijde, Amsterdam. He called it a teahouse, inspired by 1920s and 1930s cannabis cafes in the USA. The shop was named after "Mellow Yellow", a song by Donovan Donovan Phillips Leitch (born 10 May 1946), known mononymously as Donovan, is a Scottish musician, songwriter, and record producer. He developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelic rock and world mus ... which describes the singer trying to become intoxicated through smoking the peel of banana. It was the first such shop in the world. The intent of the shop was to sell cannabis, despite it being illegal to do so. Other early coffeeshops included Rusland and The Bulldog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mello Yello
Mello Yello is a highly caffeinated, citrus-flavored soft drink produced, distributed and created by The Coca-Cola Company that was introduced on March 12, 1979, to compete with PepsiCo's Mountain Dew. Mello Yello was withdrawn from Australia in the early 1990s, being replaced with the similar but uncaffeinated Lift. In South Africa in the 1980s, Mello Yello became associated with Apartheid South African Police and their notorious canary-colored vehicles. There have been three flavored variants of Mello Yello in North America. Mello Yello Cherry was released in response to Mountain Dew Code Red. The other two variants were Mello Yello Afterglow (peach-flavored) and Mello Yello Melon. All three were only available for a limited time. Mello Yello Cherry is available at Coca-Cola Freestyle machines and is still available in limited markets. In April 2010, Coca-Cola announced new images of new packaging that it would be re-branding Mello Yello to resemble the packaging in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Mellow Yellow
King Mellow Yellow (born in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican Dancehall DJ. Being one of three popular albino DJs in the 1980s (Yellowman, Purpleman and King Mellow Yellow), in song, he often referred to himself as "The Yellow Hands". Career In 1981, King Mellow Yellow began recording his first album. It released one year later in 1982 in Jamaica on the Jamrock label. Later that year, he released ''King Mellow Yellow Meet Yellowman'', a clash album with another albino DJ Yellowman Winston Foster , better known by the stage name Yellowman, is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay, also known as King Yellowman. He first became popular in Jamaica in the 1980s, rising to prominence with a series of singles that established .... In 1983 and 1984, Mellow Yellow released more singles with other artists and by himself. Some of those artists include Sammy Dread and Fathead. 12" Discos References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
