Lemon Tree (Will-Holt-Lied)
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| publication | 1961 |
| Genre (s) | Folk |
| Author (s) | Will Holt |
Lemon Tree is a folk song that Will Holt wrote in the late 1950s. The melody is based on the Brazilian folk song Meu limão, meu limoeiro , which was arranged by José Carlos Burle in 1937 and popularized by the Brazilian singer Wilson Simonal . The song compares love with a lemon tree : " Lemon tree very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet, but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat. ”
The song was u. a. Recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary , Chad & Jeremy , The Kingston Trio , The Seekers , Bob Marley and The Wailers , Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass , Sandie Shaw , The Brothers Four and Roger Whittaker . In 1965, Trini Lopez recorded the most successful version of the song, which reached number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 2 on the Billboard Middle Road Singles charts. In the USA it was adapted as a jingle for the lemon-scented cleaning product Pledge in the late 1960s .
The song is featured in the Seinfeld episode This Answering Machine! mentioned (season 2, episode 4, 17:38). It is also quoted in the A Terribly Kind Family episode of Marcy's Changing Table ( Season 6 , Episode 5, 5:00 p.m.) as being sung by the character Jefferson during a dream sequence.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Meu limão, meu Limoeiro . MPB Cifrantiga
- ^ Joel Whitburn : Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001 . Record Research, 2002, p. 149.
- ↑ Middle-Road Singles . In: Billboard , February 20, 1965, p. 46