"Mellow Yellow" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer/songwriter
Donovan. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was rumored
to be about smoking dried banana skins, which, at the time, was believed to
be a hallucinogenic drug, though this aspect of bananas has since been
debunked.

Donovan Philips Leitch turned 69 May 10.

Tim Maguire

The song "My Sweet Lord" by former Beatle George Harrison was his first as a solo artist. It topped charts worldwide and was the first number – one  single by an ex-
Beatle.

The movie Girls! Girls! Girls! is a musical comedy starring Elvis Presley. The song 
"Return to Sender", which reached number-two on the Billboard pop singles chart,
is featured in the movie. It was the second of three films Presley shot on location
in Hawaii.

Elvis checking a shot behind the camera

"Theme from Shaft," written and recorded by Isaac Hayes, is the
soul and funk-styled theme song to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film,
Shaft. The song was well received by adult audiences, reaching
number six on Billboard’s Easy Listening chart.

The following year, "Theme from Shaft" won the Academy Award
for Best Original Song with Hayes becoming the first African
American to win that honor, or any Academy Award in a non-
acting category, as well as the first recipient of the award to
both write and perform the winning song.

Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr.
(August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008)