1960-жылдардың американдық рок тобы "Lemon Pipers" және "Жасыл тамбурин" хиті

American rock band

The Lemon Pipers were a short lived 1960s American rock band from Oxford, Ohio, United States, known chiefly for their song "Green Tambourine", which reached No. 1 in the United States in 1968. The song has been credited as being the first bubblegum pop chart topper. before releasing a single on the Carol Records label, "Quiet Please". The original band existed as a quartet, and then gained notoriety by reaching the finals in the Ohio Battle of the Bands at the Cleveland Public Auditorium in 1967, losing out to the James Gang.

The band then recruited Miami University student Browne as frontman, and also engaged Ohio music industry impresario Mark Barger, who steered the Lemon Pipers to Buddah Records, then run by Neil Bogart. The Lemon Pipers, relying in part on advice from Barger, agreed to enter into a recording contract and music publishing deal with Buddah. Buddah's plans for the group focused on bubblegum pop rather than rock music, and the Lemon Pipers joined a stable already containing Ohio Express and the aptly named 1910 Fruitgum Company. Paul Leka was assigned to be their record producer.

The group's debut on Buddah was a Bartlett composition, "Turn Around and Take a Look". When the song failed to make the charts, the label asked Leka and his songwriting partner, Shelley Pinz, who were working out of a Brill Building office on Broadway, to come up with a song. The pair wrote "Green Tambourine" and the band reluctantly recorded it. The song entered the Billboard Hot 100 at the end of 1967 and reached No. 1 in February 1968 on the Billboard and Cashbox charts. and was also a hit worldwide. It sold over two million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the Recording Industry Association of America (R. I. A. A.) in February 1968. The success of "Green Tambourine" caused the label to put pressure on the group to stay in the same genre, and in March 1968 the band released another Leka/Pinz song, "Rice Is Nice", which peaked at No. 46 on the US Billboard charts, No.42 on the US Cashbox charts and No. 41 in the UK in May. Browne moved to California to continue playing music, Walmsley played bass around Oxford. Bartlett became despondent and reclusive following the death of his wife Dee Dee. Nave became a jazz disc jockey on WVXU in Cincinnati and played organ occasionally with The Blues Merchants in southwestern Ohio venues. Drummer Bill Albaugh died on January 20, 1999, at the age of 53. Keyboardist Bob Nave (born Robert Gordon Nave on November 3, 1944 in Dayton, Ohio) died on January 28, 2020, at the age of 75.

Year Album LabelUS Buddah BDS 5009 90 Jungle Marmalade Buddah BDS 5016 — "—" denotes the release did not chart.

Year Single Chart positions CatalogueUSUS CBCANAUSNZUK1966"Quiet Please" / "Quiet Please" (long version) — — — — — —Dana Records 706101967"Turn Around and Take a Look" / "Danger" 132 — — — — —Buddah BDA 11"Green Tambourine" / "No Help from Me" 1 1 3 2 3 7Buddah BDA 23 / AU: Astor AP 1445 / UK: Pye International 7N 254441968"Quiet Please" / "Monaural 78" (instrumental) — — — — — —Carol Records 107"Rice Is Nice" / "Blueberry Blue" 46 42 40 37 6 41Buddah BDA 31 / AU: Astor AP 1466 / UK: Pye International 7N 25454"Jelly Jungle (of Orange Marmalade)" / "Shoeshine Boy" 51 30 20 26 — —Buddah BDA 41 / AU: Astor AP 1492 / UK: Pye International 7N 25464"Wine and Violet" / "Lonely Atmosphere" — — — — — —Buddah BDA 63"Love Beads and Meditation" / "The Shoemaker of Leatherware Square" — — — — — —AU only: Astor AP 15581969"Rainbow Tree" / "Hard Core" — — — — — —Buddah BDA 124"I Was Not Born To Follow" / "Rainbow Tree" — — 87 — — —Buddah BDA 1361975"Green Tambourine" / "Jelly Jungle" (re issue) — — — — — —UK only: Buddah BDS 422 "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.