"The Banana Boat Story" is the third single by Bill Buchanan and Dickie Goodman

Dickie Goodman

Richard Dorian "Dickie" Goodman was an American music producer.-Career:In June 1956 Goodman created his first record, "The Flying Saucer", which he co-wrote with his partner Bill Buchanan, and featured a four-minute rewriting of Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio show...

, under the name Buchanan & Goodman, released on Luniverse Records in 1957. This was the first break-in single to sample commercial jingles, rather than rock 'n' roll songs. It was also the last single to feature Bill Buchanan before he went on to do his own novelty records.

The B-side is a crime-drama show-based track called "Mystery (In Slow Motion)". It consisted of various sound effects with very little dialogue. The track was later released under other titles by Dickie Goodman

Dickie Goodman

Richard Dorian "Dickie" Goodman was an American music producer.-Career:In June 1956 Goodman created his first record, "The Flying Saucer", which he co-wrote with his partner Bill Buchanan, and featured a four-minute rewriting of Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio show...

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Commercials

Some of the products whose commercial jingles were used:

• Winston
  Winston (cigarette)
  Winston cigarettes are manufactured by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company or its newer incarnation as RJR Nabisco and/or its affiliates.The brand was introduced in 1954, and became the best-selling brand of cigarettes in the United States...
  
  
• Pall Mall
  Pall Mall
  -Places:* Pall Mall, urban downtown ares of Bendigo, Australia* Pall Mall, London, a street in the City of Westminster, London* Pall Mall, Tennessee, a small unincorporated community in Fentress County, Tennessee...
  
  
• Pepsodent
  Pepsodent
  Pepsodent is a brand of toothpaste with a minty flavour derived from Sassafras. The brand is owned by Unilever, but in 2003 the rights to the brand in the United States and Canada were bought by Church and Dwight....