Mellow Yellow (album) 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 ("Young Girl Blues"). The contractual problems that prevented the release of Donovan's music in the UK led him to write such songs as the resigned "Writer in the Sun", where he contemplates the possibility of his own forced retirement from the music industry at the age of 20.
Shades of yellow and named after the fruit. The color "lemon" is a representation of the color of the outer skin of a lemon. The first recorded use of "lemon" as a color name in English was in 1598. Maximum yellow was a Crayola crayon color from 1926 to 1944. The color mellow yellow is displayed at right. "Mellow yellow" was first used as a color name in English in 1948 when it was formulated as one of the colors on the Plochere color list. The source of this color is the "Plochere Color System", a color system formulated in 1948 that is