There never was a banana character. Some people who dressed as the 'Fruit of the Loom Guys' would add a person in a banana costume due to the obvious jest. However, the official four characters were a fig leaf, an apple, and two grape clusters.
A picture of the official four may be viewed at the link below.
Grapes
No fruit of the loom underwear is not really made of fruit. It is the name that the advertising department created when making the underwear line. There are some pretty funny vintage commercials for fruit of the loom!
The Fruit of the Loom guys, like the logo, include purple grapes, green grapes, a red apple and a fig leaf. If you're looking for the "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" song in one of their commercials, tough luck, kid. ...Uhmm I find this perverted. *snicker snicker* A banana... in the underwe- BAHAHAHAHA!
Green Grape, Apple, Purple Grape, and Leaf
Yes there was a banana also
Mindy Gledhill- Bring Me Close
There isn't a specific Fruit of the Loom commercial featuring a piano bar. The singers in Fruit of the Loom commercials vary depending on the specific ad campaign.
The classic "Fruit of the Loom" cornucopia (horn of plenty) includes an apple, purple grapes, green grapes, currants and leaves. The 4 human characters in the Fruit of the Loom commercials are the Apple, the Purple Grape, the Green Grape, and the Leaf.
Fruit of the loom means... Fruit of a loom!
One theory (although likely spurious) says that the banana was left off because sailors are superstitious about having bananas on their boats, and Fruit of the Loom underwear would be forbidden if there was a banana on the label. The simplest explanation is that the design was originally an apple, and then a classic cornucopia, or "horn of plenty," which until the discovery of the Americas would not have included the banana (native to the New World).
He plays the apple in the Fruit of the Loom commercials
It's called "Date night". A small piece made just for the commercial. It's available for download as an mp3 or ringtone at the FoTL Website. You can watch Fruit of the Loom commercials at www.FruitSocks.com