Juanita Banana (song)

"Juanita Banana"
Single by The Peels
B-side"Fun"
Released1966
Recorded1966
LabelKarate 522
Stateside 513 (UK)
Songwriter(s)Tash Howard
Murray Kenton
Producer(s)"A (Tash) Howard/Smith Production"

"Juanita Banana" is a novelty song adaptation from Mexican folk music by Tash Howard and Murray Kenton.[1] The song, which tells the story of a Mexican banana farmer's daughter with operatic ambitions and whose chorus is an adaptation of "Caro Nome" from Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto, was originally released in the United States in 1966.

  1. ^ "Hills, The – Juanita Banana / Fun (Austrian release)". Discogs.com. 1966. Retrieved 27 October 2011.