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.
Have You Never Been Mellow (song) 2016, Dutch DJ duo Showtek released a hardstyle song entitled "Mellow" that sampled this song's lyrics with Technoboy and Tuneboy. In 2017, Japanese singer-songwriter Rina Sumioka covered the song in her album "Colors". Juliana Hatfield covered the song on her album "Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John". Have You Never Been Mellow (song) "Have You Never Been Mellow" is a popular song written by John Farrar and recorded by Olivia Newton-John as the title track for her album of the same name. In March 1975, the single became Newton-John's second consecutive number-one hit on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 and also