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
Have You Never Been Mellow (song) Reyne's solo debut album.) Belgian liquid drum & bass prodigy Netsky sampled the song on his 2010 debut album "Netsky" (Hospital Records), using the vocals of Terri Pace on the song "Mellow". Me First and the Gimme Gimmes covered the song on their all Australian covers 2011 EP, "Go Down Under". A French cover was recorded by Nicole Rieu, "Ma maison au bord de l'eau", was released in 1975. In 2001, Japanese singer and voice actress Rie Tanaka recorded the song (in English) for her album "Garnet". Olivia's original version had been a big hit in Japan in 1975. In