A feel-good earworm: The Banana Splits theme

The motif is also used in “Give Him Cornbread” by Beau Jocque and the Zydeco Hi Rollers. Of course, this was a much later use. I don’t know if it’s supposed to be a callback to Banana Splits or to Marley, or if the phrase had just so entered public consciousness by this point that it was just seen as a fun, familiar riff.

Beau Jocque would have been in his late teens during the Banana Splits era, so… :shrugmoji:

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