Karen Mercedes wrote:
> I always thought in the case of this song it was less about drug culture
> than the Indian mystical craze that people like Donovan, the Beatles (esp
> George Harrison), Pete Townshend, and even (very briefly) Mick Jagger were
> getting into at the end of the '60s as an alternative to the drug culture.
>
> I take the imagery in Donovan's song, then, to be meditation- rather than
> hallucinogenic-drug induced
Being of a certain age....I recollect this song being before
the Beatles went to India and the Maharishi, and at the
time, I took the reference to the electrical banana to be
the smoking banana's for a high thing that was reported in
the popular media at the time. In my mind, I put this song
in 1966 or 1967, pre-Sgt. Pepper. This is one of those songs
that brings up a particular memory-picture in my mind -
singing it on a bus with fellow high-school age kids off to
a religious youth-group convention!
Peggy
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Margaret Harrison, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
"Music for a While Shall All Your Cares Beguile"
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