“Green Tambourine” is a dumb and simple song, but pop music can take those things and turn them into virtues, as long as there’s a beat like that one under it.

From "Blue Moon" to "Roses Are Red" to "Deep Purple" to "Paint It Black" to "Green Tambourine" to "Black and Yellow," 1,001 songs, as of last week, have topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the ...

The Lemon Pipers recorded “Green Tambourine” later that year. By February 1968, it was the number-one song in America. “We went from being a local rock ‘n’ roll band to being a national ...

Terry Porter, an agent and film and music executive who played drums for the '60s rock group The Lemon Pipers on their No. 1 hit "Green Tambourine," has died. He was 73.

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