Mellow Yellow Paul McCartney can be heard as one of the background revellers on this track, but the "quite rightly" whispering answering lines in the chorus is not McCartney but rather Donovan himself. 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. In 2005, the track was remastered by EMI Records for the "Mellow Yellow" album re-issue. "Mellow Yellow" was covered in 1967 by soul singer Big Maybelle on her album "Got a Brand New Bag". It was also covered in 1968 by British
Mellow (band) video for the single "Another Mellow Winter". In 2000, Coppola asked mellow to score his 1960s-sci-fi debut feature "CQ". At the same time, mellow scored the title track to "Novocaine", a dark comedy by David Atkins, starring Steve Martin and Helena Bonham Carter. That year, mellow toured in Japan, the UK and the US. The soundtrack for "CQ" was released as mellow's second album in 2001. In between albums, mellow continued to work on other people's music, lending their hand to bands such as Major Deluxe, Nice Hashimoto, The Free Design, Philippe Katerine and Bridge & Tunnel. They also scored