Donovan
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Sep 16, 2026
Trudi DanielsPANELIST
He wants to
Jim BentleyPANELIST
hear the anti-Diluvian rant by Donovan.
Jim BentleyPANELIST
The hook is great, though.
Jim BentleyPANELIST
Oh, the song is awesome.
Jim BentleyPANELIST
can just see guys getting their ass kicked.
Drew LaneHOST
I know.
Drew LaneHOST
I do love all these Donovan songs, I have to admit.
Drew LaneHOST
He's
Sideshow SidHOST
Now that recording was arranged by an unsung icon of 60s UK pop TV and screen music, Essex boy John Cameron.
Sideshow SidHOST
It was a list of credits starting with Donovan in the 60s for the 70s TV shows and films like Little House on the Prairie and cult Gene Roddenberry horror film Spectre all the way up to the 80s when he wrote the arrangements for a little-known stage play entitled Les Miserables.
Sideshow SidHOST
Here are four from his catalogue of contributions.
Sideshow SidHOST
Start with the main credit theme for the 60s cult classic, Kez.
Brett MorrisPANELIST
And then I also, again, almost like how I was saying with Mother Nature's Son, Rocky Raccoon, for whatever reason, I think of Dear Prudence and Julia as being kind of either or.
Brett MorrisPANELIST
Like if I have to cut it down, both of them is him doing that Donovan like claw hammer finger picking technique.
Brett MorrisPANELIST
Yeah.
Brett MorrisPANELIST
Yeah.
Dotun AdebayoHOST
Your-
Tim VickeryPANELIST
It's, it's a Donovan lyric, isn't it? First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.
Dotun AdebayoHOST
[laughs] And?
Tim VickeryPANELIST
I don't know what he was on.
ScorcherPANELIST
don't know.
ScorcherPANELIST
No, Donovan.
Russell RobertsonGUEST
Donovan.
Russell RobertsonGUEST
Donovan.
Ross StevensonHOST
You don't associate him with a guitar.
Ross StevensonHOST
Is
Russel HowcroftHOST
that like barrel picking? Is that what you mean?
Russell RobertsonGUEST
That's that sort of style of picking.
Phil CeberanoGUEST
No,
Ross StevensonHOST
Donovan.
Phil CeberanoGUEST
Donovan.
Ross StevensonHOST
Donovan.
Ross StevensonHOST
You don't associate
Phil CeberanoGUEST
him with a guitar.
Ross StevensonHOST
that like barrel picking? Is that what you mean?
Phil CeberanoGUEST
That's that sort of style of picking.
Craig ConantHOST
[laughs]
Jeremiah WatkinsGUEST
That reminds me of, um, the Donovan song Mellow Yellow.
Craig ConantHOST
"They call me Mellow Yellow."
Jeremiah WatkinsGUEST
Uh-huh.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[upbeat music] Electrical Banana Is gonna be a sudden craze Electrical Banana Is bound to be the very next phase They call it Mellow Yellow Quite rightly They call me Mellow Yellow Quite rightly They call me Mellow Yellow [upbeat music] You know it's Saffron Yeah I'm just mad about her I'm just mad about Saffron She's just mad about me They call it Mellow Yellow Quite rightly They call me Mellow Yellow Quite rightly They call me Mellow Yellow Oh, so mellow Oh, so mellow
John of HawthorneHOST
There goes Donovan feeling a little Mellow Yellow, which followed Tina Turner's What You Get Is What You See.
John of HawthorneHOST
Now Tina won 12 Grammy Awards and was the first Black artist and the first woman to appear on the cover of the Rolling Stone magazine.
John of HawthorneHOST
What a star.
Gilda RadnerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Daffodils are yellow.
Gilda RadnerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Donovan's is yellow.
Gilda RadnerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If you were my son, I'd be a jolly good fellow.
Gilda RadnerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Tulips are pink.
Gilda RadnerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is really going good.
Gilda RadnerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Take it gently.
Zach PruittHOST
I think there's a reference to the musical artist Donovan, which I enjoyed.
Zach HallHOST
Wait, Mellow Yellow? Mellow Yellow.
Aaron ConnHOST
For a few days, Paul had an idea for a song.
Aaron ConnHOST
It started out life as a song about a strange man named Ola Natunji, which is what the name of the song would have been, according to Donovan.
Aaron ConnHOST
And then there was the idea of Daisy Hawkins that floated around.
Aaron ConnHOST
Maybe that would be a good name for a song.
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