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Donovan – Live in Japan (50th anniversary) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:25 minutes | 506 MB | Genre: Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Donovan Discs LTD
Thank you Japan for such a cool welcome to me for the concerts of 1973. Now here in this 50th Anniversary release of the original song selection, you can also see all Linda and I experienced on tour, in our video YELLOW STAR, a hidden treasure unreleased until this year. With great thanks to our film director and dear family friend, Anthony Foutz. Also thanks to Josep Umbria who re-mastered the audio tapes and Bruce Logan who restored the film. But most of all thank you Linda, I am still ‘Living For The Love Light‘ in your eye!
This is scarce Japan ONLY Live album ( released in 1973 ) of Donovan. As title shows, this is recorded live at Osaka Festival Hall & Kosei Nenkin Hall, Japan on March 25 & 26. It was issued only in Japan. The back-cover shows Donovan in “Ninja”. It’s hard to find this item in any condition even in my country nowadays. Scarce item from Japan to serious collector.
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Donovan – Storyteller (2003) [Audio Fidelity]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 48:07 minutes | Scans included | 1,93 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 689 MB
Audio Fidelity SACD #AFZ-015 | Mastered for SACD by Steve Hoffman
This set makes a nice introduction to Donovan’s peak years in the mid- to late ’60s, including both his Baroque flower power material for Epic Records like “Sunshine Superman” and the fairy tale funky “Hurdy Gurdy Man” as well as his earlier and more folky recordings for Pye Records (they were released in the U.S. by Hickory Records) like “Catch the Wind,” “Colours,” the stylistically prescient “Sunny Goodge Street,” and the beautiful “Turquoise” (which is as gorgeous as it is ridiculous). The sides included here are perfect examples of Donovan’s unique Woody Guthrie meets Timothy Leary style, and having both the Pye and Epic material side by side is a definite plus.
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Donovan – Fairytale
Artist: Donovan | Album: Fairytale | Style: Folk Rock | Year: 2002 [22 October 1965 original] | Quality: DVD-Audio (MLP 5.1 96kHz/24Bit, Dolby AC3 5.1) | Bitrate: lossless | Tracks: 18 | Size: ~2.8 Gb | Covers: in archive | Release: Sanctuary Records / Silverline (288085-9), 2005 | Note: Not Watermarked
Donovan’s second album found the Scottish folkie in possession of his own voice, a style of earnest, occasionally mystical musings indebted neither to Woody Guthrie nor Bob Dylan. True, Fairytale’s highlights — “Sunny Goodge Street,” “Jersey Thursday,” and “The Summer Day Reflection Song” — use a sense of impressionism pioneered by Dylan, but Donovan flipped Dylan’s weariness on its head. His persona is the wistful hippie poet, continually moving on down the road, but never bitter about the past. The folkie “Colours,” already a hit before the album’s release, is also here (though without Donovan’s harmonica). A few of his songs are inconsequential and tossed-off (“Oh Deed I Do,” “Circus of Sour”), but a few of these (“Candy Man” especially) succeed too, thanks to Donovan’s effervescent delivery. (more…)
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Donovan – What’s Bin Did And What’s Bin Hid
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Label: Pye Records / NPL 18117 | UK Release: 1965 | Genre: Country-Folk
This is Donovan’s first LP, came out on the market and was the first album I heard from him. You understand that I’ve a deep affection.
Certainly am young age understood the similarities between Donovan and Dylan, but tell me do you think that any reputable artist was not inspired by other renowned artist? I believe that every great artist has received some influence.
This Donovan’s LP is a gem, and it’s a pity that didn’t follow this path of country-folk (without ignoring his brilliant psychedelic legacy.)
So, ladies and gentlemen, I leave you with Donovan.
Donovan – Universal Soldier
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Label: Marble Arch Records / MAL 718 | UK Release: 1967 | Genre: Country-Folk
Previously I talked about to the country-folk era from Donovan (an era that I revere), and which are 3 LPs exactly: “What’s Bin Did And What’s Bin Hid” (1965), “Fairytale” (1965) and that I present today “Universal Soldier” (1967), which is not exactly an official LP, because is a compilation of various singles that appeared between his two first albums.
And it is really interesting because there are different versions of their well known folk hits. For example, here appears one version of “Catch the Wind” accompanied by an
String orchestra, also the first take of “Colours” monophonic with harmonica. A very good album, is one of my favorites.
Ah! Put attention to the interpretation of a song by Bert Jansch “Do you hear me now”, really good.
Donovan – Fairytale (1965)
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Label: MALS 867, Marble Arch Records / MAL 867 | Release: 1965 | This Issue: 1969 | Genre: Country-Folk
Fairytale is Donovan’s second album. It was first released in the United Kingdom on October 22, 1965 through Pye Records (catalog number NPL 18128). The U.S. version of Fairytale was released by Hickory Records (catalog number LPM 127 [monaural] / LPS 127 [stereo]) in November 1965 with a slightly different set of songs. Peter Eden and Geoff Stephens produced the album.
Fairytale finds Donovan evolving his styles further towards British folk, especially on songs such as “Summer Day Reflection Song” and “Jersey Thursday”. “Sunny Goodge Street” foreshadows the jazzy feel and descriptions of life in urban London that Donovan would continue to explore over the next two years. For release in the United States, Hickory Records added a cover of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s “Universal Soldier” and removed a cover of Bert Jansch’s “Oh Deed I Do”.
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Donovan – Sunshine Superman (UK) (1967)
Vinyl rip @ 24/96 | FLAC | Artwork | 1065mb
Rock, Pop, Psychedelia, Folk | 1989 UK reissue | BGO BGOLP 68
The UK issue of this landmark album paired half of the US release with half of the Mellow Yellow album and featured totally different artwork. However it’s still a strong album dominated by tracks that mixed Donovan’s earlier folk style with acid rock psychedelia. The blend works perfectly on the title track but there are some other gems present here such as the haunting “Celeste”, the sitar laden “Three Kingfishers” and of course the dark “Season Of the Witch”. One of the essential 1967 releases, (although the US version was issued in 1966 making it one of the earliest psychedelic records!) Freak Emporium.
Due to the contractual dispute between Pye Records and Epic Records, Donovan’s releases were held back in the United Kingdom throughout 1966 and early 1967. During this time, Donovan released Sunshine Superman and Mellow Yellow in the United States. To catch up to the Epic Records schedule in America, Pye Records compiled a cross-section of both albums and titled it Sunshine Superman. It was released in the UK (Pye NPL 18181) in June 1967 and reached #25 in the British charts. Wikipedia.
Note: despite the wording on the label and rear sleeve, this record is mono.
Donovan – Open Road (1970)
Vinyl rip @ 24/96 | FLAC | Artwork | 936mb
Folk-Rock | 1970 UK LP | Dawn DNLS 3009
Although it was a disappointing seller and signalled the start of Donovan’s commercial decline, Open Road could have been a new beginning for the singer. Stripping down to a Celtic rock format that managed to be hard and direct, yet still folkish, Donovan turned out a series of excellent songs, notably the minor hit “Riki Tiki Tavi,” that seemed to show him moving toward a roots-oriented sound of considerable appeal. William Ruhlmann, allmusic.
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Donovan – Donovan In Concert (1968)
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Folk-Rock, Folk-Jazz | 1968 UK stereo LP | Pye NSPL 18237
‘Donovan In Concert’ features a 1967 concert recorded at the Anaheim Convention Center, just a few weeks after his Hollywood Bowl show. The band is a quintet with Harold McNair on flute and saxophone, Loren Newkirk on piano, Andy Tronosco on upright bass, Tony Carr on drums, and John Carr on bongos. Donovan plays acoustic guitar throughout. The hippy mysticism and flower power poet is everywhere here. This isn’t rock star excess at all, but an organic, drenched-in-sunshine concert full of gentleness with a premium on good vibes. Donovan was already an expert at getting audiences to eat out of his hand, and here that happens in spades. ‘Donovan In Concert’ is one of the great live albums of the ’60s. Thom Jurek, allmusic.
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Donovan – Donovan’s Greatest Hits (1969)
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Rock, Pop, Psychedelia, Folk | 1976 UK repress | Pye NSPL 18283
In March 1969 (too soon to include “Atlantis”), Epic and Pye released Donovan’s Greatest Hits, which included four songs previously only available as singles – “Epistle To Dippy”, “There is a Mountain”, “Jennifer Juniper” and “Laléna”, as well as re-recorded versions of “Colours” and “Catch The Wind” (which had been unavailable to Epic because of Donovan’s contractual problems) and specially-mixed stereo versions of “Sunshine Superman” and “Season of the Witch”. It became the most successful album of his career; it reached #4 in the US, became a million-selling gold record, and stayed on the Billboard album chart for more than a year. Wikipedia.
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