Jelly Jungle (of Orange Marmalade)
{{Infobox song
| name = Jelly Jungle (of Orange Marmalade)
| cover = Jelly_Jungle_(of_Orange_Marmalade)_-_Lemon_Pipers.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = The Lemon Pipers
| album = Jungle Marmalade
| B-side = Shoeshine Boy
| released = {{Start date|1968|05}}
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre =
- Bubblegum pop{{cite web|first= David|last= Browne|title= Remember All That Silly Bubblegum Pop from the Sixties? A New Box Set Does|website= Rolling Stone |date= September 26, 2024|url= https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/bubblegum-boxset-review-1235093854/|accessdate= December 13, 2024}}{{cite book|first= Glynis|last= Ward|editor1-first= Kim |editor1-last= Cooper|editor2-first= David|editor2-last= Smay|year= 2001|title= Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth|chapter= Bubblegum Psychedelia: Pseudo Maturity In A Candy-Coated World|publisher= Feral House|location= Los Angeles|pages= 240–242}}
- psychedelic pop
- baroque pop{{AllMusic |class=album |id= mw0000539759
|title= The Lemon Pipers - The Best of the Lemon Pipers (1998): Review |last= Leggett|first= Steve|access-date= January 22, 2024}}
| length = {{Duration|m=2|s=12}}
| label = Buddah
| writer = {{hlist|Paul Leka|Shelly Pinz}}
| producer = Paul Leka
| prev_title = Rice is Nice
| prev_year = 1968
| next_title = Wine and Violet
| next_year = 1968
}}
"Jelly Jungle (of Orange Marmalade)" is a song written and composed by Paul Leka (who also produced it) and Shelly Pinz. It was the final chart hit by the 1960s Ohio-based rock group The Lemon Pipers.
Released in the spring of 1968, it spent five weeks on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 51, and seven weeks on the Cash Box Top 100, peaking at No. 30.{{Cite web |url=http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/60s_files/19680615.html |title=Cash Box Top 100 6/15/68 |access-date=2016-10-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812085531/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/60s_files/19680615.html |archive-date=2014-08-12 |url-status=dead}} It reached No. 26 in Australia and No. 20 in Canada.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.5741&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.5741.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.5741|title=Image : RPM Weekly|website=Library and Archives Canada |date=17 July 2013}}
The song contains psychedelic imagery, mostly focused on the color orange: marmalade jelly jungle, sunshine boy, rainbow ladder, yellow ball of butter, fluffy parachute clouds, tangerine dreams, pumpkin drum, carrot trumpets, and violins growing like peaches.
Chart performance
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Chart (1968)
!Peak |
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Australia
| style="text-align:center;"|26 |
Canada RPM 100{{Cite web|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.5741&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.5741.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.5741|title=Image : RPM Weekly|website=Library and Archives Canada |date=17 July 2013}}
| style="text-align:center;"|20 |
US Billboard Hot 100[Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2002]
| style="text-align:center;"|51 |
US Cashbox Top 100{{Cite web |url=http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/60s_files/19680615.html |title=Cash Box Top 100 6/15/68 |access-date=2016-10-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812085531/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/60s_files/19680615.html |archive-date=2014-08-12 |url-status=dead}}
| style="text-align:center;"|30 |
References
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External links
- [http://www.songlyrics.com/lemon-pipers/jelly-jungle-lyrics/ Lyrics of this song]
- {{YouTube|tt_RXyN4YD8|The Lemon Pipers - Jelly Jungle (of Orange Marmalade)}}
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