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==Music Video== | ==Music Video== | ||
Banana Man's music video was created as | Banana Man's music video was created as a class project for Jennifer Hardacker’s Video Art II class at the University of Michigan<ref>[https://whalejoey.com/about WhaleJoey.com. About page.]</ref>, being directed and edited by Joe Hawley.<ref>[http://www.jonkmusic.com/2006/09/tally-hall/ Jonk Music Tally Hall article]</ref> The video stars Joe Hawley as himself and the titular character of Banana Man, with the other members of Tally Hall (as the Zimbabwe songbirds) and friends from U of M. The video won "Best Music Video" at the 2004 Flint Film Festival.<ref>[https://www.pingry.org/uploaded/2016_Our_Community/Students/Publications/Pingry_Record/record-apr292005.pdf Pingry Record April 29th 2005]</ref> The video was later uploaded to tallyhall.com where it could be streamed and downloaded. | ||
On March 5th 2005, the video would make its way onto AlbinoBlackSheep, a website for videos and animations by internet creators.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050401011922/http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/ AlbinoBlackSheep 2005 archive]</ref> There, it would gain immense popularity, becoming the most popular video on the site for a time. The video would reportedly be downloaded over 2 million times<ref>[http://tinawhelski.blogspot.com/2006/08/tally-halls-joe-hawley-interview.html TINA WHELSKI AUGUST 9, 2006 Joe Hawley Interview]</ref> and go on to accumulate 4.6 million views on YouTube as of April 2022.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yModCU1OVHY Tally Hall - Banana Man. YouTube.]</ref> | On March 5th 2005, the video would make its way onto AlbinoBlackSheep, a website for videos and animations by internet creators.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050401011922/http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/ AlbinoBlackSheep 2005 archive]</ref> There, it would gain immense popularity, becoming the most popular video on the site for a time. The video would reportedly be downloaded over 2 million times<ref>[http://tinawhelski.blogspot.com/2006/08/tally-halls-joe-hawley-interview.html TINA WHELSKI AUGUST 9, 2006 Joe Hawley Interview]</ref> and go on to accumulate 4.6 million views on YouTube as of April 2022.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yModCU1OVHY Tally Hall - Banana Man. YouTube.]</ref> | ||
Banana Man also saw small success on television, being used in the MTV show "The Real World: Key West" as the theme song for Johnny Bananas. | |||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||