Stewart Mason wrote:
> At 12:12 AM 9/1/2003 -0400, king radio wrote:
>> Here is a question for the general list.  I once heard that McCartney
>> sings the backup vocal "quite rightly" on Donovan's Mello Yello.  Is
>> this true?
>
> Nope.  It's Paul Simon, who'd become friends with Donovan when he was
> bumming around the UK as a solo folksinger circa '64-'65, between the
> first and second S&G albums.

I've never seen that anywhere before, but I *have* seen the McCartney
attribution *many* times (googling brings up many references to McCartney
being on it but none to Simon), and it sounds *very* like McCartney to my
ears.
And while Simon *was* big in the UK folk scene in the early-mid 60s, and
friends with people like Roy Harper, Bert Jansch, Martin Carthy, Jackson
Franck and so on, I've never heard anyone refer to a friendship with
Donovan - while Donovan *was* a good friend of all the Beatles, and around
that time they made the odd little contribution to each others' songs
(Donovan suggesting 'sky of blue/sea of green' for Yellow Submarine, and
being present at the recordings for A Day In The Life and IIRC All You Need
Is Love, Harrison writing an unused verse for Hurdy Gurdy Man, and so on)

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