Green Tambourine

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"Green Tambourine"
Green Tambourine by The Lemon Pipers US vinyl.jpg
A-side label of the US single
Single by the Lemon Pipers
from the album Green Tambourine
B-side "No Help from Me"
ReleasedNovember 1967 (1967-11)
Recorded1967
Studio Cleveland Recording Company, Cleveland [1]
Genre
Length2:23
Label Buddah
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Paul Leka
The Lemon Pipers singles chronology
"Turn Around and Take a Look"
(1967)
"Green Tambourine"
(1967)
"Rice Is Nice"
(1968)
International releases
Green Tambourine - The Lemon Pipers.jpg
Artwork for the Dutch single

Additional personnel

Cover versions

In 1968, an instrumental version was released by Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra on the album Love Is Blue, [26] and as a single. [27] Welk's version reached No. 27 on Billboard 's Easy Listening chart, [28] [29] No. 21 on Record World 's "Top Non-Rock" chart, [30] and No. 11 on Record World's chart of "Singles Coming Up". [31] In the same year, Status Quo covered the song on their debut album Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo . [32]

Robert Goulet covered the song for the 2001 film Recess: School's Out , providing the singing voice for the character Mikey, releasing it as a single from the film soundtrack of the same name. [33]

See also

References

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  33. Ebert, Roger (2002). Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2003 , Andrews McMeel Publishing. p. 494. Retrieved April 24, 2018.