Donovan - Donovan's Greatest Hits
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Artist: DonovanBrand: DONOVAN
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-03-30
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Mellow Yellow
- Colours
- Hurdy Gurdy Man
- Catch The Wind
- Lalena
- Epistle To Dippy
- Sunshine Superman
- There Is A Mountain
- Jennifer Juniper
- Wear Your Love Like Heaven
- Season Of The Witch
- Atlantis
- To Susan On The West Coast Waiting
- Barabajagal
- Riki Tiki Tavi
Music reviews of Donovan's Greatest Hits
Music Review: Donovan's Greatest Hits-Expanded
Rating: 3 Stars
Donovan Leitch was an icon, of sorts, of the sixties. He was a part of the hippie/folk music movement that began back then. Bob Dylan was one of the big movers & shakers of this movement & many, including Donovan, took up this banner. Donovan was definitely at the front of this movement for a period of time & had some major hits, some of them classic & timeless. This is supposedly the original version with bonus tracks added. Well, it is & it isn't; at least two of the tracks that were on the original vinyl version, as many others have stated, aren't the versions that was on that vinyl record.
In 1969, when the original vinyl version was released, this album went to #4 on the album charts, which was the highest any of his albums ever charted. I was never that much of a Donovan fan so I never owned any of his albums with the exception of this. Actually, I never fully bought into the folk movement, it was generally too mellow for my tastes. Normally, artists of this nature, those that would later be renamed as soft rock, never appealed to me. But, invariably, they would release singles that I thoroughly enjoyed. Such is Donovan, he had several hits that I enjoyed.
This version has the eleven songs that were on the vinyl release plus four bonus tracks that came a little later. "Mellow Yellow" opens the album, it was a #2 hit. "Colours" only made it to #61 & this isn't the version that was on the vinyl. It's pleasant enough but I really miss the background vocals that echo some of what Donovan sang. "Hurdy Gurdy Man" was a #5 hit & is one of my absolute all-time favorite songs. Donovan dispensed a large portion of his folk sound in doing this song, ala Dylan. Donovan is often lambasted for being an imitator of Dylan & I can't completely disagree. The liner notes lists the musicians that play on each track & offer some insight also. On this particular track Donovan mentions that he wanted Jimi Hendrix to play lead on this song but he wasn't available. He ended up with Jimmy Page, also on this track is John Paul Jones & John Bonham before Led Zeppelin was ever formed. So, I guess, in a sense, we can blame or credit Donovan, somewhat, for the creation of that band. "Catch the Wind" follows & this, also, isn;t the version that was originally on the vinyl, it was a #23 single. "Lalena" is next & was a #33 single, a pretty good song. "Epistle to Dippy" went to #19 but it;s on the lame side. "Sunshine Superman", along with "Mellow Yellow", are probably the two songs most associated with Donovan, it went to #1. "There Is a Mountain" went to #11. "Jennifer Juniper" (I cringe hearing this song) was a #26 single. "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" is a pleasant ballad & went to #23. The final song on the original record was "Season of the Witch", a unique song for Donovan as he put aside some of his folk/hippiedom.
The four bonus tracks pick up on the tail end of Donovan's commercial career. Donovan was fading pretty fast by this time in 1969. "Atlantis" is the first bonus track & the last great single of his career, at least domestically. It's one of his best songs & peaked at #7 on the charts. "To Susan on the West Coast Waiting" was an anti-Vietnam war song & is better off to be forgotten; it peaked at #35. "Barbajagal" peaked at #36 & was one of the first songs to feature a reggae feel. The final bonus track is "Riki Tiki Tavi" that only made it #55.
This pretty much covers all of Donovan's charting singles in the U.S. except for three: "Universal Soldier" (#53), ""Celia of the Seals" (#84) & "I Like You" (#66). This is probably all the Donovan you'll ever need.
Description of Donovan's Greatest Hits
Originally released in 1969, this classic greatest hits collection contains "Mellow Yellow," "Colours," "Hurdy Gurdy Man," "Catch the Wind," "Lalena," "Sunshine Superman," "There Is a Mountain," "Jennifer Juniper," "Wear Your Love Like Heaven," "Season of the Witch" and three bonus songs, including "Atlantis."No Track Information Available
Media Type: CD
Artist: DONOVAN
Title: GREATEST HITS
Street Release Date: 03/30/1999
Genre: ROCK/POP
Greatest Hits is the budget option for those who've concluded that two discs of Donovan is a disc too many and zero is one too few. Troubadour, Sony's 1992 Donovan box set, boasts nearly three times the tracks this 15-song single-disc retrospective offers, but Greatest Hits delivers what it promises: "Colours" and "Catch the Wind" from his folkie phase and "Mellow Yellow," "Sunshine Superman," and "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" from the lad's best-pal-a-flower-ever-had period. Also included are plenty more catchy folk-rock hits cut between 1964 and 1970 as well as four bonus tracks, including the delightfully earnest "Atlantis" and "Barabajagal," with the celebrated first-edition Jeff Beck Group providing backing. Donovan's blissed-out liner notes ("Whatever you think this song is about, it probably is") round out the package quite quaintly. --Steven Stolder
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