> Ok, for those of you who have seen this commercial, I need your help. It's a new GAP commercial, the one where some kids are sitting down singing. They are singing a song and the lyrics go like this:
>
> I'm just mad about Saphron.
> Saphron's mad about me.
> I'm just mad about Saphron,
> cuz she's just mad about me.
> (pause)
> They call me Mello Yellow....
> They call me Mello Yellow....
>
> Anyway, my questions are:
>
> 1) Is it Saphron or something else?
> 2) What are all the lyrics, or where can I find them?
> 3) What's the actual name of the song, Mello Yellow, or not?
> 4) What does it have to do with clothes/GAP?
>
> All I know for sure is that it was a John Lennon song. Or at least that's what my mom says...
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated,
> famous :)

I've only read a few responses to this, and I'm sure this information is somewhere in the rest of them, but I'm giving it now out of a sense of awe (I forget how YOUNG you guys are sometimes) and frustration, because in the responses I did read, it was STILL incorrect information:

It is a song by DONOVAN, not John Lennon. It is called "Mellow Yellow" and came out well before the softdrink. Back in the sixties/seventies when Donovan was popular, so were names like "Flower" and "Ocean." I can only assume "Saffron" struck someone as a nice name, too. The spice itself makes all things it touches very yellow. There is a website at www.songfile.com that probably has the lyrics. I recently read an article that said Gap was choosing the songs for their ability to stick in your head. Seems to have worked.