In 1990, the Associates released a cover version as the B-side of their "Fire to Ice" single. The Peppermint Rainbow covered the song on their 1969 album Will You Be Staying After Sunday. UK band Sun Dragon recorded a very similar version in 1968 for the MGM label. The Status Quo covered the song on their 1968 debut album Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo. Miller covered the song on her 1968 album Mrs. 11 on Record World 's chart of "Singles Coming Up". 21 on Record World 's "Top Non-Rock" chart, and No. 27 on Billboard 's Easy Listening chart, No. In 1968, an instrumental version was released by Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra on the album Love Is Blue, and as a single.
Ken Hamann (incorrectly credited on original album pressings as "Kenny Hammond") – engineer ( Cleveland Recording Company). Ivan Browne – lead vocals, rhythm guitar. The single's B-side, "No Help from Me," featured lead vocal by keyboardist Bob Nave and did not appear on either of the group's two albums.Ĭhart performance Weekly charts Chart (1967–68) The string section consisted of Elliot Rosoff, David Sackson, Irving Spice, Louise Stone, Louis Gaborwitz, and Deborah Idol on violins Seymour Berman on viola and Seymour Barab and Sally Rosoff on cellos. While the Lemon Pipers played on the record, producer and joint author-composer Leka hired a string section to accompany the band, to add extra depth to the already psychedelic arrangement. The musical arrangement also features sweeping orchestrated strings and the distinctive vibraslap percussion instrument. The mono version also starts fading out slightly earlier than in the stereo version. The echo is noticeably different in the mono and stereo mixes. Another hook is the heavy, psychedelic tape echo applied to the word "play" in each chorus and at the end, fading into a drumroll ("Listen while I play play play play play play play my green tambourine"). The song's instrumentation contains the titular tambourine as well as an electric sitar, a frequent signature of the so-called " psychedelic sound". In exchange he offers to play his green tambourine. The song tells the story of a street musician pleading for someone to give him money. in the 60s, on the streets between Seventh Avenue and Broadway there was a magic one could only imagine. Now listen while I play my Green Tambourine' as if it were yesterday. When you toss a coin you'll hear it sing. I remember writing the lyric, 'watch the jingle jangle start to shine, reflections of the music that is mine. Sometimes I wonder what happened to the man in front of the Brill Building, holding a tambourine begging for money. I wrote a poem about him and called the poem 'Green Tambourine.' I added it to my lyric collection. 
In early Spring, 1966, while standing in front of the Brill Building I watched a man holding a tambourine begging for money. The song's lyricist, Rochelle "Shelley" Pinz (1943–2004) was a writer at the Brill Building, working with Leka.
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