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 Yellow Rose (song) Lee his fourth. "The Yellow Rose" is set to the same melody as the traditional American folk song "The Yellow Rose of Texas," but with newly-written lyrics by Johnny Lee, Lane Brody and John Wilder. The song was used for the theme song to the NBC television series "The Yellow Rose", starring Cybill Shepherd. While the television show used only the song's first verse and chorus, the commercial single version included a second verse not heard on the program, with Lee's "Say When" on the B-side. Brody and Lee would later chart a second duet, "I Could Get Used to