Mellow Yellow 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 in 1966, (Both Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys and Winchester Cathedral by The New Vaudeville Band kept it from hitting No. 1). Outside the US, "Mellow Yellow" peaked at No. 8 in the UK in early 1967. 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 Seeker (the Who song) The Seeker (the Who song) "The Seeker" is a song written by Pete Townshend and performed by English rock band the Who, and featured on their 1971 compilation album "Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy". Around the time of the song's release, Townshend explained its meaning in an interview with "Rolling Stone": "I suppose I like this least of all the stuff", wrote Townshend the following year. "It suffered from being the first thing we did after "Tommy", and also from being recorded a few too many times. We did it once at my home studio, then at IBC where we