> > 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:

I always appreciate hearing the OLD people's perspective. hehe, :)


> 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.

NO KIDDING!!! Here I am three days later, and the stupid song is still stuck in there. There must be some method to getting it out without starting to sing another worthless song, but I have yet to figure that out. Maybe someone could shed some light on this....

fam "i'm just mad about Saffron...Saffron's mad about me, I'm just mad about Saffron, cuz he's (it could be a he i assume) just mad about me...*opens mouth really big* THEY CALL ME MELLOW YELLOW...quite rightly" ous