Juanita Banana (song)
| "Juanita Banana" | |
|---|---|
| Single by The Peels | |
| B-side | "Fun" |
| Released | 1966 |
| Recorded | 1966 |
| Label | Karate 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. 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.