Mellow Yellow the album "Donovan's Greatest Hits", the rumour that one could get high from smoking dried banana skins was started by Country Joe McDonald in 1966, and Donovan heard the rumour three weeks before "Mellow Yellow" was released as a single. According to "The Rolling Stone Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll", he admitted later the song made reference to a vibrator; an "electrical banana" as mentioned in the lyrics. This definition was re-affirmed in an interview with "NME" magazine: "it's about being cool, laid-back, and also the electrical bananas that were appearing on the scene - which were ladies' vibrators."
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