Yellow Balloon was not on the recording, having been in a recent near-fatal car accident. The week of May 20, 1967, the Yellow Balloon's version placed at #25 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, while Jan & Dean's version placed at #111. This was due largely to the fact that many disc jockeys around the United States played only the Yellow Balloon version of the song. The B-side was the song played backwards, entitled "Noollab Wolley". However, several radio stations banned the song in fear that the song was about yellow hallucinogenic pills for a drug trip, just like the Donovan song "Mellow
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