GreenTamborine Lemon Pipers

[littlemissmartypants]

I'm dedicating this post to AOC. I hope she doesn't turn out to be a one hit wonder. The message is as pure as it is simple. Here's to the New Generation, again.

Drop your silver in my tambourine
Help a poor man fill his pretty dream
Give me pennies, I'll take anything
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine
Watch the jingle jangle start to chime
Reflections of the music that is mine
When you toss a coin you'll hear it sing
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine
Drop a dime before I walk away
Any song you want I'll gladly play
Money feeds my music machine
Now listen while I play
My green tambourine
Listen while I play

"Green Tambourine" is a song about busking, written and composed by Paul Leka (who also produced it) and Shelley Pinz. It was the biggest hit by the 1960s Ohio-based rock group The Lemon Pipers, as well as the title track of their debut album, Green Tambourine. The song was one of the first bubblegum pop chart-toppers and became a gold record.

Released toward the end of 1967, it spent 13 weeks on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 1 on February 3, 1968,[5] and sold over a million copies. The record remained on the chart for three months.[6] It was also the first U.S. No. 1 hit for the Buddah label. The Lemon Pipers never repeated this success, though their "Rice Is Nice" and "Jelly Jungle", both also written by Leka and Pinz, made the charts in 1968.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Tambourine

[msongs]

1. it has a good vibe to it for being a kinda odd song nt

[argyl]

2. Here's a psychedelic cut from these guys.

Pretty good really. Not nearly as good as
"Eight Miles High," which obviously was the inspiration for it, but that is one really high bar.

[littlemissmartypants]

3. Wow! That was great! I would have liked it even more

If the drummer had a solo. Definitely, got the tambourine though. Thank you for sharing it, argyl.