Gimme Dat Banana – Black Gorilla (1977)

Description

Additional information about this, Black Gorilla vinyl art.

Black Gorilla – The Artist/s

Black Gorilla was a dance music group, originally made up of session musicians, which released a handful of singles in the 1970s. The group’s origin was in the song “Gimme Dat Banana”, written by Rainer Petsch, Ekkehard Stein, and Bernd Dietrich, and which the trio – plus producer Michael Holm – had recorded by session musicians. CBS Records released the single in Germany in 1976, albeit without success, but it created enough of a buzz in nightclubs in the United Kingdom that Pye Records picked up the rights and released it on the Response Records imprint. In order to promote the single, Pye recruited Fascination, a band from Leicester (other than guitarist Victor Watson, who was from Wolverhampton),  to front the single and appear for performances.

Gimme Dat Banana – The Song

Gimme Dat Banana is a light hearted dance song that was written by Rainer Petsch, Ekkehard Stein, and Bernd Dietrich, and which the trio – plus producer Michael Holm – had recorded by session musicians. It was their only charting record.

The Gorilla – The Shape

This record has been modelled into a the silhouette of a gorillas snarling face. Gorillas are large, primarily herbivorous, great apes that live in the tropical forests of equatorial Africa. The genus Gorilla is divided into two species: the eastern gorilla and the western gorilla, and either four or five subspecies. The DNA of gorillas is highly similar to that of humans, from 96 to 99% depending on what is included, and they are the next closest living relatives to humans after the bonobos and chimpanzees. Gorillas are the largest living primates, reaching heights between 1.25 and 1.8 m (4 ft 1 in and 5 ft 11 in), weights between 68 and 227 kg (150 and 500 lb), and arm spans up to 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in), depending on species and sex. They tend to live in troops, with the leader being called a silverback. The eastern gorilla is distinguished from the western by darker fur colour and some other minor morphological differences. Gorillas tend to live 35–40 years in the wild.

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