DONOVAN GIFT FROM FLOWER GARDEN PSYCH ROCK FOLK BOX SET
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YOU ARE BIDDING ON A RARE BOXSET
DONOVAN
A GIFT FROM A FLOWER TO THE GARDEN
RELEASED IN 1968 ON PYE CAT NO. N(S) PL 20000
THIS RARE & ORIGINAL DOUBLE LP BOX SET COMES COMPLETE WITH IT'S 12 INSERTS / FOLDER
BOTH RECORDS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION
INSERTS EXCELLENT CONDITION
FOLDER HAS A CREASE ON ONE FLAP OTHERWISE EXCELLENT
BOX DOES SOME SOME SIGNS OF WARE PLEASE SEE PHOTO
Track listing
1. Wear Your Love Like Heaven
2. Mad John's Escape
3. Skip-A-Long Sam
4. Sun
5. There Was A Time
6. Oh Gosh
7. Little Boy In Corduroy
8. Under The Greenwood Tree
9. Land Of Doesn't Have To Be, The
10. Someone Singing
11. Song Of The Naturalist's Wife
12. Enchanted Gypsy, The
13. Voyage Into The Golden Screen
14. Isle Of Islay
15. Mandolin Man And His Secret, The
16. Lay Of The Last Tinker
17. Tinker And The Crab, The
18. Widow With Shawl (A Portrait)
19. Lullaby Of Spring, The
20. Magpie, The
21. Starfish-On-The-Toast
22. Epistle To Derroll
Upon his emergence during the mid-'60s, Donovan was anointed "Britain's answer to Bob Dylan," a facile but largely unfounded comparison which compromised the Scottish folk-pop troubadour's own unique vision. Where the thrust of Dylan's music remains its bleak introspection and bitter realism, Donovan fully embraced the wide-eyed optimism of the flower-power movement, his ethereal, ornate songs radiating a mystical beauty and childlike wonder; for better or worse, his recordings remain quintessential artifacts of the psychedelic era, capturing the peace-and-love idealism of their time to perfection. Donovan Leitch was born May 10, 1946 in Glasgow and raised outside of London; at 18 he recorded his first demo, and in 1965 was tapped as a regular on the television pop showcase Ready, Steady, Go! He soon issued his debut single "Catch the Wind," earning the first round of Dylan comparisons with his ramshackle folk sound and ragamuffin look; the single nevertheless reached the UK Top Five, with a subsequent meeting between the two singer/songwriters captured in the classic D.A. Pennebaker documentary Don't Look Back.
Donovan's follow-up single, "Colours," was also a hit, and after making his American debut at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, he issued Fairytale, his second and last LP for the Hickory label. Signing with Epic in 1966, he released his breakthrough album, Sunshine Superman, which in its exotic arrangements and pointedly psychedelic lyrical outlook heralded a major shift from his previous work; the title track topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, with the enigmatic "Mellow Yellow" reaching the number two spot a few months later. Donovan remained a chart fixture throughout 1967, generating a series of hits including "Epistle to Dippy," "There Is a Mountain," and "Wear Your Love Like Heaven"; that year he traveled to India alongside the Beatles to study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a journey which inspired him to renounce drug use and encourage his listeners to turn to meditation. The ambitious double album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden followed, and in 1968 Donovan resurfaced with The Hurdy Gurdy Man, scoring a Top Five smash with the hallucinatory title cut; the record also yielded the hit "Jennifer Juniper."
Barabajagal from 1969 generated Donovan's final Top 40 hit, "Atlantis"; for the title track, he collaborated with the Jeff Beck Group, with whom he also worked on 1970's Open Road. He then retreated to Ireland, emerging from a period of seclusion by starring in and scoring the 1972 film The Pied Piper; a pair of new LPs, Cosmic Wheels and Essence to Essence, appeared the following year to disappointing reviews and little commercial interest. Following 1974's 7-Tease, he spent the next years living quietly in California's Joshua Tree desert, mounting only a small club tour to promote 1976's Slow Down; a self-titled LP appeared a year later, and in the wake of 1983's Jerry Wexler-produced Lady of the Stars, he essentially retired from writing and recording altogether. The Donovan revival began in earnest in 1991 when Happy Mondays titled a song in his honor for their groundbreaking Pills 'n' Thrills & Bellyaches; he later toured with the group as well. Five years later, Donovan released his comeback LP, Sutras, helmed by producer-du-jour Rick Rubin. ther album had the misfiortune to be released after Rubin's landmark Johnny Cash record, American Recordings and was virtually ignored or misunderstood by critics. Donovan toured briefly to support Sutras and then went missing once again, playing out only sporadically. IN more 2004 he reappeared with the intimate and stylish Beat Cafe, a collection of nearly all orignal songs produced by keyboardist John Chelew. Donovan also enlisted bassist Danny Thompson and drummer JIm Keltner to round out his quartet. The album also featuered a pair of covers, a spoken word rendition of poet Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle," and a startling rendition of the traditional tune, "The Cuckoo. He remains a major influence on a generation of new artists including fellow Scots Belle and Sebastian.
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