"Mellow Yellow" is a song and single release by Donovan. The song was rumored to be about smoking dried banana skins, which was believed to be a hallucinogenic drug in the 1960s, but this rumor has since been debunked. According to Donovan's notes accompanying the album "Donovan's Greatest Hits," the rumor that one could get high from smoking dried banana skins was started by Country Joe McDonald in 1966, and Donovan heard the rumor three weeks before "Mellow Yellow" was released as a single. The currently accepted truth about the song "Mellow Yellow" is that it is about a sex toy, shaped like a banana, that the girls were crazy about. In 1999, "Mellow Yellow" was sung by a group of young adults—among which were then-unknowns Alex Greenwald and Jason Thompson—in Gap's "Everybody in Cords" commercial directed by Pedro Romhanyi. The music mix was done by the Dust Brothers.

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