His songs were recorded by rock singer Bobby Fuller and TV bubblegum act The Banana Splits.

* The Banana Splits Adventure Hour ( 1968 – 1970, NBC )

Hanna-Barbera's musically-oriented series such as The Banana Splits, Josie and the Pussycats, and The Cattanooga Cats employed such diverse talents as Barry White, Mike Curb, and Cheryl Ladd ( then Cheryl Stoppelmoor ) as studio musicians, arrangers, and vocalists.

* The Banana Splits Adventure Hour ( 1968 and 1970 " The Coronation of Bakaar ")-recurring appearance as a maid named " Mildred the Robot "; does not have glass dome

After designing the characters and sets for Hanna-Barbera's Banana Splits series, the Kroffts ' producing career began in 1969 with the landmark children's television series H. R.

The appearance of the characters and the format of the show was similar to Hanna-Barbera's The Banana Splits.

These groups included The Groovie Goolies, The Hardy Boys, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, The Banana Splits ( actually live action with actors in animal costumes and dubbed speaking voices ), The Cattanooga Cats, The Chan Clan, and The Neptunes.

The Banana Splits are four funny animal characters who featured in a late 1960s children's variety show made for television.

The Banana Splits Adventure Hour was an hour-long, packaged television program that featured both live action and animated segments.

The Banana Splits Adventure Hour premiered on NBC on September 7, 1968.

Pufnstuf, which was launched during an hour-long special hosted by The Banana Splits on August 30, 1969.

Actor Jan Michael Vincent ( billed as Michael Vincent ) appeared in the live-action component Danger Island ; all the live-action material filmed for the series ' first season ( including the Banana Splits and Danger Island segments ) was directed by Richard Donner.

Each show represented a meeting of the " Banana Splits Club ", and the wraparounds featured the adventures of the club members, who doubled as a musical quartet, meant to be reminiscent of The Beatles and mostly their NBC counterpart, The Monkees.

Fleegle would assume the role as leader of the Banana Splits and preside at club meetings.

In many episodes, the Banana Splits would be seen riding on the Runaway Mine Train roller coasters, Log Flumes, Bumper Cars, Merry-Go-Rounds, and many other rides at Six Flags and Coney Island.

The amusement park scenes in the original series were not filmed at Kings Island, which opened in nearby Mason, Ohio in 1972, some three years after filming for The Banana Splits Adventure Hour wrapped in 1969.

But some of the rides seen in the series were relocated to Kings Island ( following a flood which led to the closing of Coney Island ; the park later reopened on a smaller scale ) and the live-action scenes in the 1972 production The Banana Splits In Hocus Pocus Park were indeed filmed at Kings Island in Cincinnati.

During the first season, the Banana Splits segments often concerned the group's confrontations with a rival club, The Sour Grapes Bunch.

Five young actresses appeared as the messenger girls: Debra Thibodeaux, Colette Chenault, Julie Graham, Kathy O ' Dare, and Shirley Hillstrom ; only one would appear at a time, always called " Charlie " in the context of the show, except for the performance of the song " Doin ' The Banana Split " ( the segment first appeared in show # 5, originally telecast October 5, 1968 ) which featured all five girls dancing with The Banana Splits.

In other recurring features during the first season, Drooper and Bingo offered advice to viewers in the " Dear Drooper " segment, while Fleegle served as the reporter for Banana Splits News.

In the second season, all new live-action segments were produced with the Banana Splits characters, while the animated segments and Danger Island serial were repeats.

Other new elements included School Time, Nursery Rhymes and a Gag Wall segment ( reminiscent of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ), as well as Fan Club meetings where the Banana Splits would read viewer mail.

The characters ' costume designs also received an overhaul ( introduced in the next-to-last Season 1 episode, The Great Banana Splits Buggy Race ), with Snorky, who was originally covered in hair, now clean-shaven and sporting a yellow and blue striped vest.

The stories were: " Dougal's Experiment ", " A Starry Night ", " The Moody Concerto ", " Dougal's Adventure ", " The Stiff Necked Heliotropes " on side one and " The Birds School ", " The Piano Carrier ", " Banana Skin ", " The Musical Box ", " The Announcer " on side two.

That package consisted of 125 half-hours, including 36 Banana Splits Adventure Hour cutdowns edited from the eighteen original first season shows, thirteen additional episodes produced for the 1969 – 1970 season which were not included in the syndicated package and reconstructed versions of the 36 syndicated edits which presently air on Boomerang.

In addition to the original 31 episodes of The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, NBC also aired two " preview " shows.

Another " fall preview " show, called The Banana Splits And Friends ( not to be confused with the later half-hour syndicated package The Banana Splits And Friends Show ) aired in The Banana Splits Adventure Hour's regular timeslot on Saturday, August 30, 1969.

For the latter, he played the character Dick Dastardly in multiple series ( notably Wacky Races and Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines ); Clyde and Softy on The Perils of Penelope Pitstop ; and Fleegle on The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, and Gargamel on The Smurfs.

The first episodes of Rocky and His Friends utilized one, as did The Banana Splits Adventure Hour.

Their Six Flags shows caught the attention of Hanna-Barbera, who recruited the Kroffts to design costumes for their latest show, The Banana Splits Adventure Hour.

In the late 1960s, Garrett provided cartoon voiceovers for a number of Hanna-Barbera projects, including The Banana Splits Adventure Hour.

Arabian Knights is an animated segment of The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, created by Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Danger Island is a live-action adventure serial produced by Hanna-Barbera and originally broadcast in 1968 as a segment on the Banana Splits Adventure Hour.

He also provided the voices of cartoon character Magilla Gorilla, the lion Drooper on The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, arch villain Tyrone in The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty and Bluto on The All-New Popeye Hour.

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* Arabian Knights, an animated segment of The Banana Splits Adventure Hour

The Hillbilly Bears cartoon segments were later repeated during the second season of The Banana Splits Adventure Hour ( 1969 – 1970 ), and all 52 Atom Ant and Secret Squirrel half-hours were syndicated as part of The Banana Splits And Friends Show, an umbrella title for a package combining episodes of several different Hanna-Barbera series ( the other series included The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Adventures of Gulliver ).

* The Three Musketeers, an animated adaption that aired as part of Hanna-Barbera's The Banana Splits Comedy-Adventure Hour & The Banana Splits & Friends show.

Banana production in 1999 was 432, 000 tons.

Banana production in 1999 was 130, 000 tons.

* Sam Levine as the The Banana Man ; the character was created by Adolph Proper ( 1886 – 1950 ).

In 1940, the Naval Air Station Banana River ( now Patrick Air Force Base ) was built.

The doll was possessed by the demon Paddywack in " The Haunting of Mr Banana Brain ".

The first South Indian restaurant in Tooting was Sree Krishna, established in 1973 but it has since been joined by many other similar establishments like Apollo Banana Leaf, Radha Krishna Bhavan and Dosa N Chutney ; all three of which are situated South of the Broadway crossroads.

Kelly's last venture was a small banana bread business in Woodstock called " Top Banana ".

It was once known as the " Banana Capital of the World " because 70 % of imported bananas to the U. S. used to be shipped there.

For instance, in the mid 90's, the annual Banana Split Festival was started, to commemorate the town's alleged creation of the famous treat in Wilmington in 1907.

Calypso, especially a toned-down, commercial variant, became a worldwide craze with the release of the " Banana Boat Song ", or " Day-O ", a traditional Jamaican folk song, whose best-known rendition was done by Harry Belafonte on his album Calypso ( 1956 ); Calypso was the first full-length record to sell more than a million copies.

His second-most popular hit, which came immediately after " The Banana Boat Song ", was the comedic tune " Mama Look at Bubu ", also known as " Mama Look a Boo-Boo " ( originally recorded by Lord Melody in 1956 ), in which he sings humorously about misbehaving and disrespectful children.

The term Banana Republic was coined by American writer O. Henry.

The Youngbloods was an American folk rock band consisting of Jesse Colin Young ( vocals, bass ), Jerry Corbitt ( guitar ), Lowell Levinger, nicknamed " Banana ," ( guitar and electric piano ), and Joe Bauer ( drums ).

Joseph " Sharkey " Bonano ( April 9, 1904 – March 27, 1972 ), also known as Sharkey Banana or Sharkey Bananas, was a jazz trumpeter, band leader, and vocalist.

Banana was born in 1936 in Esiphezini Communal Area, Southern Rhodesia near Esigodini ( now in Matabeleland South ).

Banana was arrested on his return but was released a year later, kept under house arrest, and then allowed to participate in Abel Muzorewa's plans for the country.

Returning to Rhodesia in December 1976, Banana was arrested once more for his support of ZANU ; upon the appointment of Christopher Soames as British governor, he was released from prison.

In 1997, Banana was arrested in Zimbabwe on charges of sodomy, following accusations made during the murder trial of his former bodyguard, Jefta Dube.

The charges related to allegations from the state prosecutor that Banana had misused his power while he was president to coerce numerous men in positions of service ( ranging from domestic staff to security guards, and even members of sports teams for whom he had acted as referee ) into accepting sexual advances.

Banana was found guilty of eleven charges of sodomy, attempted sodomy and indecent assault in 1998.

Banana was sentenced on 18 January 1999 to ten years in jail, nine years suspended, and was also defrocked.