Comments on: Banana Splits vs. Bob Marley

by: Adam Clifford

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:51:30 +0000

Funny you write about this now, as 3 days ago (ere I stumbled onto this site) I bought a CD of “Television’s Greatest Hits - Volume 5″ with which I have been grooving to the original “Tra La La Song”.

But clearly, the proper title of the mash-up would be “The Banana Spliffs”.

by: Jacob T. Levy

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:29:10 +0000

bwa-ha-ha! That’s funny, and even though I know about the Marley song, my first thought would have been “the Banana Splits theme song” too.

That Todd Seavey would not be easily assimilated into Jamaican culture probably wasn’t something we needed any proof of, though.

by: Todd Seavey

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:28:55 +0000

Maybe “Banana Soldiers” would be a better name for the mash-up, it now occurs to me.

by: T.A.B.

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:51:20 +0000

Todd, I own that compilation. Great song.

by: walt

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 14:17:35 +0000

The Great One is Back

by: Todd Seavey

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:44:12 +0000

To make matters weirder, you might find it easier to work with Liz Phair’s cover of the song (technically called “The Tra La La Song [One Banana, Two Banana]”) from the 1995 compilation _Saturday Morning Cartoons’ Greatest Hits_ than to work with the brief original.

Let me also note that I love the themesongs to _Underdog_, _Battle of the Planets_, _Johnny Quest_, and _The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse_ and have all the words to the first-season themesong to _Starblazers_ memorized to this day: “We’re oooooff to outer spaaaace/ We’re leeeeeaving Mother Earth/ To save the human raaaaace/ Our Star-bla-zers/ Searching for a distant star/ Heading off to Iscandar…” etc.

by: Francis

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:58:59 +0000

The Buffalo Splits! Awesome. This makes me want to light up a massive fleegle.