#WHO SANG THE SONG MELLOW YELLOW HOW TO#

It also hit number one on the Cash Box Hot 100 in the United States. The song “ Sunshine Superman” hit number one on The United States Billboard Top 100 in 1966. The song “ Sunshine Superman, ” was a huge hit for Donovan. We close out our Top 10 Donovan songs list with a tie between the great Donovan songs “ Sunshine Superman, ” and “Season of the Witch.”

#WHO SANG THE SONG MELLOW YELLOW HOW TO#

It would be fantastic if someone could figure out how to replicate the effect, a capella, then we can all truly live a life of ease, and every one of us will have all we need.# 1 – Sunshine Superman / Season Of The Witch I know this site is visited by a lot of music recording aficionados (is it ok to call you “geeks”?). From our position, we heard it as a boisterous guy-chant being chased by an angelic echo. In case it isn’t obvious, the “chilling” part of it was that because we were closer to the boys’ camp, than the girls’ side, the sound of the female “choir” was just a beat later.īoth populations were hearing their radios at the same moment, but the singing reached us at slightly different moments. Summer camp in Maine in late August of 1966… I’m a 16 yr old counselor-in-training… Every cabin has a couple of transistor radios… We only listen to WBZ from Boston… I’m out in the middle of the lake teaching a ten year old how to sail a sunfish… The BZ jockey spins the new Beatles single … In a rousing rush of joy, our buddies back on land are belting out the chorus, “We all live in a yellow submarine” … It bounds out of the woods from our camp, crossing our bow… The kid and I, in the doldrums, sail limp, dangling our feet, we laugh and sing too… Then, an amazing audio wave washes us from the stern… In a group response, an ethereal echo, also singing the chorus, is wafting out to greet us… It is flowing from the girls’ camp on the other shore… Chilling and warming to remember this…natural stereo…with the speakers separated by a mile of open water… Radio, and the Beatles, were the uniting glue for us all… -– I hope you appreciate the above recollection. Heard are George swirling water in a metal bathtub (beginning at 0:18) Rolling Stones Brian Jones clinking glasses, supplying party chatter and playing the ocarina John blowing bubbles in a bucket through a straw and shouting off-mike in the echo chamber studio staff rattling chains in a metal tub and ship’s bells and a manic John mocking Ringo’s every measure the second time through in to a hand-held mike plugged into a Vox guitar amp.Īll who were not working the controls, including the Beatles, George Martin, Geoff Emerick, Mal, Neil, Alf Bicknell, Brian Jones, Patti Harrison and Marianne Faithfull joined in the final chorus. A raid of the Studio Two trap room allowed for two additional and separately taped tracks – sometimes combined together and sometimes split. Tape reduction made room for the “Goon” type sound effects. The instruments were recorded a half-step higher and vocals a half-step lower than now heard. Ringo’s vocal and all four Beatles singing backing vocals are all heard right. The basic tracks contain John’s Jumbo, George’s tambourine, Ringo’s drums and Paul’s bass – all heard left.

Who sang the song mellow yellow