THE LEMON PIPERS- " GREEN TAMBOURINE "

[80111live]

It seemed like every song back then had that sitar sound..Thanks George Harrison..

[jroxx11211]

man, i was 8 when this came out in '68, boy it takes me back to listening to AM radio, all the new bands, all the new songs, WISH I COULD GO BACK!!!

[CalamityChildren]

this song makes me want to make love to this song

[KissThisAce]

im 35 and love this song

[fembotprincess]

LOOOOOOOVE THIS SONG, wow, I could listen to it over and over again, the end is especially my favorite...it's so psychedelic and colorful and powerful and beautiful. Whatever happened to the Lemon Pipers?? They were awesome.

[blamannable]

such a good song thanks for posting!

[ModernPlague]

And by "play my green tambourine," he means, "Take a rip from this monster joint."

Gotta be. "Watch the jingle jangle start to shine......" Yep.

[yfan26]

love this song!!!!!!!!!!! <3333 its ironic how they just finish off with "Listen while and i'll play....then i'd be singing my green tamburine,.....i was thinking wait why am i saying green tamburine when they dont even say it at the end lols. i cant believe i never caught myself and

realize holy shit they dont finish and say my green tamburine Lmfao

[Dano62680]

Straight outta my childhood. In 68. Listening to WCFL in Chicago. I remember being blown away by the line that goes.." Listen while i playyyyyyyy ".... that unforgetable echo and reverb.

Yep, big blast from the past. Thanks

[BeatBoxingBryan]

nice tune

[WhiteBoyBryan]

nice tune

[14dogday]

great song i use to listen to it on a 4 track player in my dads car

[RonEvane]

Summer of '68, Central park in NYC, My beloved flower; Diane, Hair down to my chest, this beautiful tune, sharing a joint, drinking cheap wine. I'm building a time machine.

[EpicGabby12]

OMG this song bring back memories from that movie recess the movie XD

[MUFC127]

Sounds like The Rain by the Fab Four.

[MegaHusker22]

And this was ridiculed as *bubble gum* music. Hmmmph!

[themikeholmnichols]

Recess schools out Mikey that is all

[ghostnr9]

It was number 1 in US the day I was born :)

[tegeirsagent]

I was a teenager back in the 60s. So many great hits, have forgotten many so come here to search. Thanks for the memories.

[tisom2]

@tegeirsagent Me too! It is nice to go retro.

[tomgmaster2]

this is so awesome

[chuggachuggawoowoo]

Thanks for posting this.

[rwells47]

@chuggachuggawoowoo - you are very welcome!

[Micelli1947]

VIVID MEMORIES of hearing this while stationed at Fort Ord, Cal. in March of 1968.

[kjcollins21]

THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT SONG AND MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD.

[rwells47]

@kjcollins21 - you are welcome!

[BlareWolf27]

Epic 60s!!!



[buffspringfield]

Acid memories

[misstigerlady1976]

Love this song Thank You for posting it

[rwells47]

@misstigerlady1976 - you're very welcome!

[BeatBoxingBryan]

me so lucky i found this

[mwolseley1]

Cascading violins, fading echoes, magical guitar and sublime harmonies, are you kidding me???

This is a gem.

[ayla8251]

listen while i play play play....

[PsychoBoy182]

I remember this song at the end of the Disney recess movie

[MultiGubgub]

whatever happened to vietnam, or civil rights, or finding kennedys(x2),kings' killers, or why a large percentage of humans were starving

[Rao665]

@MultiGubgub what the fuck? Vietnam is still there...it's a member of the UN, their GDP is growing...what the fuck about Vietnam do you want to know? Why are a large percentage of humans starving? well what is this so called "large" precentage"?

[Iantorchwood94]

The guitar part really like "Go To The Mirror" by The Who on "Tommy" :O

Excellent song !

[johnlovesbridge]

Took me a few listens to realize what this song is (secretly) about...greed and money

[TheLydiaR]

I heard this on the soundtrack of "Made in Dagenham" and just had to see if was available on youtube. One of those songs you've forgotten about but when you hear it you can remember all the words! Wonderful!

[DeeMaree63]

Childhood memories, what else can I say - Thank you :))))

[rwells47]

@DeeMaree63- you're very welcome!

[TheClassicOutlaw]

Thumbs up if "Recess brought you here"

[7329690653]

Oh nice you make me feel as when I was young with ginger hair not a snow top. gs

[clos1122]

Am I the only one that see this music and the associated era and culture possible resurface with this rising generation??

[Hettepop]

RIP musician, composer and music producer Paul Leka who gave us this song, among many other rock classics of the 60s and 70s.

[JonKonLA]

Love the intro!

[mvp822]

R.I.P. Paul Leka, who wrote this song and co-wrote "Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)"

[ml1968lf]

R.I.P.

[Quickmood]

Sounds bit like "Go to the Mirror" by The Who! Cool!

[nb45001]

Thumbs up for recess

[siasti]

This song gets my vote for best song of the 60s!

[bloodyamericans]

A flashback of the Recess movie brought me here

this song is now on my ipod :)

[BeyondAllEnds]

I think the message of this track is clear. They were expressing their distaste toward what the label was making them play at the time. In the catchy lyrics you find a reference to playing music for money. Green, money, tambourine, music.

[woody6039]

cool

[AnnaAnnaYes]

With thanks to Sirius/XM and YouTube,this music will never die!!

[multifrogstar]

Ohh man...I got a major flash back of my sister playing this on a 45 box looking record player an i was 8 years old... playing with my hot wheels next the lving room door. It still sounds cool

Thanks man

[rwells47]

@multifrogstar- you're very welcome!

[RetroTony1959]

@multifrogstar I was 9 that year and also playing with my Hot wheels. I had 7 brothers and when we'd drive my Mom crazy those orange tracks made a great "switch" on our rear ends. lol We drove her and my Dad nuts in those days. Wished I had saved all my Hot wheels cars today.

[fritzquarar]

@multifrogstar Dude, I was the same age and the same memory! We were pretty lucky to have absorbed the

good stuff of that time from our siblings, no?

[MrGoldenseal75]

@multifrogstar Me too - Buddah 1?? - Dark Cover. I was 9 - Cub Scouts!!

[odiekansas]

This song has semblance to so many of us. Music touches our past and keeps going forward with our children.

[wizzlestyx]

This song was in the movie "Recess: School's Out" as an extra kind of thing performed after the movie ended... didn't know anything about the real origins of the song until now when i just looked it up haha

[lilparis47]

i got this song from the movie recess, im 14, i like rap hiphop and techno, but it still doesnt touch this kind of music

[dlwintermia]

Amazing...I still remember the song like it was yesterday. In fact, I arrived at Davis in December and spent New Years in Nha Trang, where I remained until I got out in Saigon in December 1970.

[ChrisCurtisFan]

Ron, your music is stellar! This is another of my faves from 'back then' -- all those sound effects, fabulous melody, a feel-good song if I ever heard one. Many thanks! Cheri/CCF/:-))

[rwells47]

@ChrisCurtisFan- you are very welcome Cheri!

[radicright]

I remember this song came out at the height of the " hippie" era. a very forgetable time, but a nice song nonetheless.

[MusicMadMaurice]

@radicright You are joking aren't you? It was the hippies and the protestors and the counter-culture who made the 60's memorable. Music this good could not have come from the featureless, expressionless, "Mom's apple-pie is best" 1950's where everyone seemed to be part of a production line Job-Lot and patriotism was considered the highest ideal for any citizen.

[iLoveGunzzzzz]

Wasn't old enough or born to hear this song. Recess movie brought me here.

[mereyrock]

Love, love, love it.

[hpribot]

The song itself was fine, the video - what video?

[harombee]

Recess the movie sent me here............shut up

[GreenPandas16]

haha i loved that movie.

[guineapiggirl400]

@harombee it's alright it sent me here too, also my dad said should listen to the original

[tymhuerta]

wooou qe cancion asi es 60s por siempre..como recuerdo la secundaria aunqe yo la curse en el 2000 me gustaba oirlas

[Lendersarmand]

SIXTIES FOREVER.

[originalploxed]

this song is so chill i have a new song to listen to when im high bro

[Megavegeta32]

3 people must be Ke$ha fans

[randomvideowatcher]

3 people punched a green tambourine.

[abcabc22100]

today anyone can set up a studio, record, and promote it. people at the top are not really sure what is good and what is not. they are inept. and, the people are very fickle today- fickle as the technology they use. today lucinda williams is popular yet each of her songs sounds similar to the others. it all sounds the same. oh well.

[2010metsfan]

You need to drop some acid while listening to this...

[Amnesia0Lemon]

This song rocks! I hate thta people only know it from some cartoon called Recess.

Lame!! 

[cbaby74]

@Amnesia0Lemon

Hey, why not? Better than not knowing, right? haha

[Delisle4]

Excellent quality!!! Thanks for posting!!

[YY4Me133]

"Green Tamborine" is definitely NOT bubble gum music.

[superuberpinktaco]

recess schools out......

[MrEddrox]

<3

[3palomar2]

recess SCHOOLS OUT!!!!!!

[mgzt52]

Proper Song from a proper era. Better than todays rubbish. Long live quality music.

[joesphx19]

@mgzt52

I believe it's the companies, the execs that keep feeding us cRAP.

[AFiestOfFriends]

@joesphx19

The companies only crank out the comercial 'music' because people buy it. If nobody bought it, they'd stop producing it. It annoys me when people blame problems on others, when really it's our fault. We should have never allowed music like that to sell well.

[joesphx19]

@AFiestOfFriends

Well I'll say it's more like the chicken or the egg, which came first. I do believe in a more general way we have backed down by allowing it to begin with, the violent and anti-women themes.  You are very right in that in the end, we could have done something about it. There is an excellent article in which the author declares it was some sort of tacit agreement with this population, don't riot, don't hurt us and you can do whatever you want. Great, for a while.

[metallicarules1234]

i remember this song at the end of the movie Recess: Schools Out

[FightingJEDI]

i like this song! It totally doesn't remind me of any other songs, especially not Tomorrow Never Knows!

[801liveable]

A REALLY GOOD SONG..GEORGE HARRISON WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO?

[CecilTheSeaMonster]

Believe it or not, the guitarist on this song went on to be the guitarist on the song "Black Betty", credited to the guitar-heavy rock trio RamJam. Quite a change in style!

[CJDiggs]

@CecilTheSeaMonster I was just about to post the same thing. I read on wikipedia that 3 of the Lemon Pipers were responsible for the re-creation of Led Bellys 'Black Betty' which soon after evolved into Ram Jam's 'Black Betty'.

[Caprica1978]

I remember the summer of '68 when the neighbor kids and I would play the 45 over and over. Hard to believe it's been 43 years. I wanted to be a hippie and to me this song, despite being labeled as "bubble gum music", was the epitome of their "groovy, counter-culture" life style. Of course, from a retrospective view of a 54 year old, maybe it was better that I didn't run away to join the Flower Children. Had my duffle packed and money stashed, but @ 12 I wouldn't have gotten far.

[emineminfo]

thumbs up if recess brought you here :)

[jstchris]

@Rkramos01 yeesss maan!! im the exact same, gotta love it.

[LibertyPheonix]

Isn't the new Hippie movement happening in 2015? I've been hearing rumors. But if it is -- I got my hair growing out, my love beads, my black light posters, and my guitar all ready to go :D

[jeepguy488]

as a little kid i remember this ...my older brother had the 45...and played it relentlessly

[SceneNuthinn]

Thumbs up if you remember the Reuses Movie

[electrictroy2010]

So basically this is a song about a bum along the street

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We have tons of them downtown. Some play tambourines for coins and others say they "just got out of jail" and need me to buy them a train ticket to home

.

[gogu123456789]

i've heard this in Recess: School's Out ,aaa memories...

[x6GreenDayLover6x]

@gogu123456789 Different version, but very good movie and song. 

[greenmonsterpuppies]

@gogu123456789 I was thinking the same thing, man!

[tobygrey22]

this was one of the first 45's that I bought in 1968. I wish that I could be there then with what I know now.

[mnvfdw]

what happen to those days of good and pacific music, why god let them die they are pacifics and made good music, seriously what happen to those days :,(

[rebbeccanne]

This is an awesome recording. It is done in a beautiful manner...I still lke it now in 2011. Will probably love it in 2211.that is ifI'm not dead....HA HA BeckyAnne

[CartCollector]

420 likes, fuck yeah!

[greenplanet2400]

excellent song! very good vibe. greetings from san francisco.

[eye2eyeize]

SAVE N HELP THE POOR MY LORD FOR CHRIST SAKE 555131313132 purple n orange n blue bats

[xiilazyalex]

I thought the beatles made this.

[Chaotic841]

my green tambourine! :)

[1400deadwood]

A TRUE Rock + Roll Classic!

[darklymacabre]

I remember hearing and seeing this on the "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" when they were a summer show! I was a kid and love the memories!!

[AndrewTsVidz]

Instant classic from the beggining

[fruitsbasketsomah10]

good song!

haha know what I realized? the first picture kinda looks like George Harrison. :P

[MrDuke15]

I'm glad i got to grow up durning this time , man what great music , and it's all still great

[KIDAmnesiacBends]

this song actually hit #1 in february 1968

[rwells47]

@KIDAmnesiacBends- you're right- it was released in December, 1967.

[ButterflyofOceans]

love this song :D

[Orakwan]

Omg, is this go to the mirror from the who? i loved the song so much, im a bit disappointed to see its not from them

[Micelli1947]

REMEMBER HEARING THIS WHILE TAKING ADVANCED INFANTRY TRAINING AT FORT ORD, CAL. IN 68. STILL WICKED!

[kylesupernerd]

one person wont get to listen to my green tambourine

[rwells47]

@kylesupernerd- they don't deserve to!

[catabeth1]

13 and I was Jammin, so Im old and who cares?,hahaha!!

[yiblon]

In 1967 I was in a strip club in Greek St and one of the girls performed to this song. My mate Malcolm sat through all the acts till she came back on again.

[calabar5]

still got my green tambourine

[calabar5]

reminds me of cycling with jimmy kelly and a ghetto blaster on the back of our bike...stoned n happy

[orion1954]

I wish Disney shows wouldnt cover it and give everybody the wrong idea. :(

MUCH MORE EPICER THAN THAT DISNEY VERSION! Thanks for the upload.

[SHEMEANzEVRyTHANG2ME]

WHERE DID I HEAR THIS SONG?

I think it was like from The Beatles or from some McDonalds show or something

[FrostyDesignz]

@SHEMEANzEVRyTHANG2ME It was in the movie "Recess"?

[SHEMEANzEVRyTHANG2ME]

@FrostyDesignz

Yeahh.

I knew that from the right side of this video on the related videos lol

[mikefuller97]

Pardon me if I'm wrong, in the lyrics where it says when you drop a coin you'll hear it sing, i believe its when you toss a coin you'll hear it sing

[rwells47]

@mikefuller97-you are right! Thanks for the sharp eye- I just changed it to the right lyrics. I found a couple other errors that I corrected too! Ron

[muzick61]

Paul Leka was my brother Teeds producer back in the late 70s...he was a great guy and I enjoyed watching him work his magic with Ron behind the board!

[muzick61]

Paul Leka was my brother Teeds producer back in the late 70s...he was a great guy and I enjoyed watching him work his magic with Ron behind the board! 

[revwjh]

reflections of a better reality eh ? missing these days....

[lyndseymarieee]

heard this song on in the kitchen at work yesterday and thought to myself, "how the hell do i forget such a great song?!"

[KingIDMF]

watched the Recess: Schools Out again since it first came out when i was 11, and this song was playing at the end. CLASSIC!

[chicago913]

Love this song. It always takes me to my "happy place." :) Thanks for posting.

[SPORTSNUTIM]

I was really young when this song came out, as an adult it is awesome. Love the 60's and 70's music.

[ryry837]

Haha! I couldn't figure out why I always thought of people dancing around with tie-dye in the background until I saw the Recess comments! Man, that show set down the blueprints for how I would look at life forever!

[BurnhamGirlFan]

love this song:)

[Wakaboo14]

Recess anyone? Haha, I was too young for the hippy age, as I am 17 right now, so that's how I know the song...

[nomellte]

fuck i love recess.

[goodchessactor]

Cool, they put the tambourine's sound on fourth beat. That gives it more prominence than on 1st or 3rd.

[takfam07]

Love this song...makes you wonder why bands today aren't capable of capturing this kind of song and sound. Like so many '60s hits, so deceptively simple, but nothing else sounds like it.

[vamwolf]

its a great song

[DaveWollenberg]

Thanx for postin this 1, Ron. It was Billboard's 236th #1 hit of the rock era. God bless!

[amberlover678]

Ah man, love this song, classic shit

[lollmfaorofllawlftw]

awesome thank you for down loading

[rwells47]

@lollmfaorofllawlftw- you are welcome! Ron

[thatunknownfreak]

I love mikey's version ;)

[FrostyDesignz]

@thatunknownfreak mmhm!

[bloodrose8790]

love this song!....makes me wanna trip out hahaha

[aglex2]

What a song, brings me good memories.

[awesomeeras131]

This song is such a fun little song!! Such great memories with this song!! This song takes me back to days of true happiness and innocence. I miss those days. My heart just aches for those days so much. What a time that was! Never to be forgotten! There was a magic in the air back then that you just cant feel today and that is a real shame. At least we can recapture some of that magic when we hear this song. Missing those days but hold the memories in my heart forever!! ♥♥

[Klattu]

So many fantastic songs and groups before and after the Beatles, so little credit and play time

[SwedeProof]

I owe you a debt of gratitude for uploading this incredible, beautiful song. (Hate calling any song "classic" as most always stand on their own merits, especially this one!) You rock!!

[rwells47]

@SwedeProof- you are very welcome! Happy New Year, Ron

[peterhatton13]

This is awesome stuff. Brings back memories.

[Tatti221]

Real Hippie song, Love it! LSD <3