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After it became a hit for the Serendipity Singers in 1964, doctors protested that many children were actually putting beans in their ears so it was banned in some places such as Pittsburgh and Boston. [1] [2] Numerous public health boards reportedly blacklisted the song as well, according to Chandler. [3] "Some television shows asked us to do ...
[2] [6] [7] Sometimes "Gertie Gitana" (a music hall entertainer) was substituted for the refrain, leading to "Gertie" becoming Cockney rhyming slang for banana the usage of which continues to the modern day. [8] The ten-note "have a banana" theme from the chorus was used by Ralph Vaughan Williams in the first movement of his A London Symphony. [9]
A demo form of the track, then just a rough beat, was premiered on the Zane Lowe show on 14 January 2009, along with "Electric Shock" and "Broken". [9] About a week before the official premiere, Parlophone president Miles Leonard described the song as "a dark, twisted track that sounds like the 'Saturday Night Fever' soundtrack on MDMA". [10]
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UC Davis researchers said those who drank the banana smoothie had 84% lower levels of flavanols in their body compared to those who had smoothies made with just mixed berries.
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With music and lyrics provided by admen Garth Montgomery, Leonard Mackenzie, and William Wirges, Clayton sang "I'm Chiquita Banana and I've come to say, bananas have to ripen in a certain way... bananas like the climate of the very very tropical equator, so you should never put bananas in the refrigerator".