2005Released
3:11

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Interesting facts and trivia about Banana Pancakes. By Songfacts®.

Johnson said of this song: "It's a wakeup in the morning and make breakfast with your family kind of song. It started when my wife was busy doing something and I wanted to distract her. So I just started playing: 'You hardly even notice when I try to show you this song it's meant to keep you from doing what you're supposed to.' I'd play her that every time she'd get sidetracked and I wanted to just hang out. Later, it just shaped into a real song. I started playing it live on the last tour we did, before it was finished, and just kind of filled in parts with: 'Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah' to get the crowd laughing. It's just a real feel good song and kind of silly. But I try not to discard the silly love songs. I mean, it'd be easy just to say, 'This one is too silly. I'm not gonna put it out there.' But for me, it's part of what I like to do? just make people have a good time and sing and get in a good mood. So I like to put a couple of those sort of just straight love songs on there."

Country star Billy Currington recorded a version for his 2013 We Are Tonight album. The Nashville singer told Country Weekly about his amped-up cover: "We put some steel guitar on it and a full band around it, because Jack's version is very simple," he explained. "His version is the better of the two, no doubt," Currington added, laughing. "But we have a great version, with a seven-piece band on it. Shy Carter sings harmony on that, and he even put a little rap on there."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Banana Pancakes.
GKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
114BPM

Album

The album Banana Pancakes is released on.

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Jack Johnson
© 2005 Jack Johnson
℗ 2005 Jack Johnson

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