Hurdy Gurdy Man is much more in line with Amber's psychedelic love affair with the 60s. It really is. You saw how she reacted to "Crimson and Clover" and "Strawberry Fileds Forever". I know she would love "Hurdy Gurdy Man" similarly.
When this song first came out, I was 15 years old and thought it was a beautiful love song. I worked hard to learn to play it so I could sing it to some girl and melt her heart. As I practiced it, I realized it is actually a heartbreaking song about someone condemned to loneliness, who will never have the kind of love the song is about. That makes the song sadly beautiful, and too often painfully true. I have been married now for 51 years, so for me, love was not like trying to catch the wind. Money, however, is a different story 😂
When this song first came out, I was in grade school in the UK near the neighboring town of Hatfield where Donovan lived, and my music teacher said that she would see him performing in the town center where she would go shopping. Busking is an old English term, though I never heard of it back then, but that is how he started.
I am the youngest of 8 children. My eldest brother was 12 yrs. older than me. When I was a little kid, he would sing this to me. He passed at the age of 49 from a PE. This will always give me good memories.
Love Donovan! Many times he has thrown a rope down to me when I was I was in a deep dark hole. His albums have a way of getting all 4 wheels back on the road for me. ♥️
Early Donovan, when he was heavily influenced by Bob Dylan. His later psychedelic work came from his time with The Beatles and The Maharishi in India. His works kinda followed the Sixties in their progression from Folk to Folk Rock. ✌️
@@ChelseaPensioner-DJW Chelsea, I tend to agree with you, but on the other hand, I think sometimes a person's voice, although not technically "great", is still a perfect fit for the song they're rendering. Best example I have would be Dylan's version of an old song called "You Belong To Me", originally popularized by Jo Stafford many years ago. It starts out, "See the pyramids along the Nile..." The first time I listened to Bob's version (just acoustic guitar and his voice), I thought it sounded oddly comical, almost like someone just doing an "impression" of Bob. But just a little further in, it hit me how sincere and poignant his delivery was--- so perfect for the song, though not technically impressive. Just a few thoughts there... 🙂
Donovan was my older brothers favorite artist. My brother passed in 1975 at 24 years old. This song played at his memorial service. It is beautiful and makes me sad.
Absolutely my favorite. Thanks guys and whoever recommended this. "Colours" is great acoustic one too - and I think you guys would love " There is a mountain" and your kids would too. Love n peace n pets.
Donovan! My mom used to play his record when I was a child so I used to hear him a lot. In my 60's I love his music. Thank you to youtwo, you put a smile on my face a bit of a tear of remembrance in my eye.❤
This music brings back great memories. Donovan is a Scottish musician & songwriter from the 60's who developed an eclectic & distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop & psychedelic rock. My favorite song by him is "Jennifer Juniper" from 1968. He had a lot of great hits such as "Colours", "Universal Soldier", "Sunshine Superman", "Mellow Yellow", "Hurdy Gurdy Man", "Atlantis" etc. Interesting note: He was friends with the Beatles & taught John & Paul a finger-picking guitar style that they used in some of their songs.
Donovan is as versitile as all the Beatles wrapped up in one artist, and could just as easily produce quality melodies. Some of his best include Hurdy Gurdy Man, Universe Am I, Atlantis, Wear Your Love LIke Heaven, Cosmic Wheels, Sailing Homeward, Sunshine Superman (his biggest hit). Barabajagal, etc.
This is one of my favorites (and I like to play it on my guitar). Some other Donovan songs I like are "Atlantis," and "Barabajagal" (with Jeff Beck on guitar!). He is truly a unique guy. Check him out in the Dylan documentary "Don't Look Back."
This is a great acoustic version, but Donovan also has another version with a full band that's definitely worth checking out! It's on his Greatest Hits album, and is the one I grew up on and remember hearing in movies and commercials over the years. You'll also love his trippy, psychedelic "Hurdy Gurdy Man!"!!! Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones arranged and played bass on it. 🎸🔥🔥🔥 - FYI - a hurdy-gurdy is a stringed instrument that's played by turning a crank, which rubs a wheel across the strings.
I saw him live a few years back when he was like 80 and it was one of the best experiences of my life. Even at that age he was on fire, and except for all the deep cuts I love so much, he played everything I wanted and the stories he had, it was awesome. Also, after the show I was walking to my car at the same exact time he came out of the venue and he literally walked right past me a foot away and I was able to tell him in passing how awesome he was and thanked him. He just smiled, but I know he heard me. I am a very big fan and he has a LOT of truly amazing music. He wrote the line "sky of blue, sea of green" in Yellow Submarine, and also taught John Lennon the guitar technique he used on The White Album. He was called the Scottish Bob Dylan, but I don't like that. I think Dylan had stronger poetic merit to his lyrics, not to disparage Donovan's, but therein lies the problem with comparing. I do think Donovan's music was prettier than Dylan's, and from what I've studied, I think I would like Donovan more as a person. He seems really nice and fun and peaceful and easy, whereas I would imagine Dylan is a bit more edgy and neurotic. The first song I ever heard from Donovan was his cover of Buffy Saint-Marie's Universal Soldier, which I strongly recommend to everyone, but also so much more, including, Bert's Blues, and Sunny Goodge Street, to name a couple of my favorites. 🙏🙌💜🎶
This is one of my most favorite songs ever. Another of my most favorite songs is also by him called "Happiness Runs", which you should also check out. Thank you for reacting to this gem.
Y'all still gotta try these too: Hurdy Gurdy Man __ Colours __ Sunshine Superman __ Jennifer Juniper. All of these, and those you already reacted to, were played often by my parents back then.
I had always put Donovan and Cat Stevens in the same bucket of soft, melodious music that plays to my heart. Bob Dylan always stood alone as being at the pinnacle of folk music.
Donovan is British (Scottish). Catch the Wind was recorded and released in 1965; pretty much at the start of the 'Flower Power' era, which was all about passive resistance and nonviolence. To know more, read Allen Ginsberg's poem 'Howl'.
There's a hilarious clip from the Smothers Brothers show where they do a " folk off" (yes, intended) between themselves, Donovan, and Peter Paul and Mary. All their riffs are great.
I forgot about this Donovan song! So long since I've heard it, but it's simple & just lovely! So much like Dylan, IMO. Try Cat Stevens 'How Can I Tell You' for another simple masterpiece! Great Choice You Guys! :) Watched a second time, and missed Luka the first time around!
2 BIG things: 1. First YOU NEEED TO check out Donovan's Hurdy-Gurdy Man..........BECAUSE Donovan asked Jimmy Page to play on the song, he then went ahead and asked John Bonham and John Paul Jones, and this was BEFORE Led Zeppelin and the first time they were recorded together......In short, it was the beginning of Led Zeppelin, and except for Robert Plant, the song sounds just like the other three. 2. Just sayin', back after Dylan hit the scene everyone wanted to be him. ....which is why Donovan, Tom Petty and even Neil Young, preformed the way they did with just them their guitars and a harmonica. Dylan wasn't the first person to do this but he was as influential as the Beatles WHO ALSO have their Dylan inspired song.....Check out "Rocky Racoon" ....written by Paul emulating Dylan.
Some other folksingers from the Sixties you may not have done include Phil Ochs (There But for Fortune, Changes, Here's to the State of Mississippi), Eric Andersen (Violets of Dawn, Close the Door Lightly When You Go), Buffy Sainte-Marie (Universal Soldier-famously covered by Donovan, Until It's Time for You to Go, My Country Tis of Thy People You're Dying), and Pete Seeger (Turn Turn Turn, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, If I Had a Hammer).
Donovan's son, Donovan Leitch, was in a band with the son of the Monkees' Mike Nesmith; and his daughter, Ione Skye, married a Beastie Boy. The music biz is a small world!
My favorite all time folk song.This song is about a love you can't have. Lost love, love unrequited. and actually, is about (a woman who became his wife], although I didn’t meet her until a year later. So it was prophetic. to Donovan.
Now you MUST watch the documentary "Don't Look Back" about Bob Dylan's1965 tour of England. The whole time, the press was chasing after him, asking what he thought of Donovan. His response in the concert scene is priceless!
Nice reaction. Thank you. I think this is from Donovan’s first phase where he was aiming more at walking in Dylan’s footsteps. And this one sounds so much like “Chimes of Freedom”. Dylan gave him a hard time in the documentary of Dylan’s British tour, BOB DYLAN:DON’T LOOK BACK. And Donovan pivoted into the more psychedelic rock stuff he did later. I like all his phases, but his biggest hits are after this.
Thanks for this one so much. It’s been a not so great week and this song brings back really good memories from my childhood. ❤ My grandmother was a big Donovan fan and she would play this on guitar and we’d sing it together. Season of the Witch is definitely my favorite song by him, though.
Some Canadian folk singers you might like to react to from the 60’s and 70’s are Ian and Sylvia Tyson (husband and wife duo), Bruce Cockburn, Valdy and Murray McLauchlan.
That's a typical song of his early albums which I like very much. They demonstrate how well he mastered guitar playing. The songs "Try for the Sun" and "Ballad of Geraldine" are somehow of a similar style. They're from his album "Fairy Tale".
Yes, that was the version on the "Donovan's Greatest Hits" album. He also did a different version of "Colours" on the same album, which is another one that was also great version.
"Atlantis" is another great song from him!!
I have the 45 to "Atlantis." The b-side is "Susan On The West Coast Waiting." It still plays!
@@smithbros1000 - Jennifer Juniper.
That's one of my favorites by him
Twas Donovan gave the world "flower power".
"Wear your Love like Heaven" is divine.
Love that song.
I’ve heard Donovan live and met him. Only a beautiful human being like him could write a song like this
One of my favorites from Donovan, "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" is nearly 60 years old.
Hurdy Gurdy Man is much more in line with Amber's psychedelic love affair with the 60s. It really is. You saw how she reacted to "Crimson and Clover" and "Strawberry Fileds Forever". I know she would love "Hurdy Gurdy Man" similarly.
The Scottish Bob Dylan. The man was so damn cool and he wrote and sing some very special memorable songs.
Donovan resented being compared to Dylan
Wasn’t he born in Ireland
@@philiptodd7062 Scotland in 1946.
@@kenhoyer8601 Would not think Dylan would have cared for the comparison either.
When this song first came out, I was 15 years old and thought it was a beautiful love song. I worked hard to learn to play it so I could sing it to some girl and melt her heart. As I practiced it, I realized it is actually a heartbreaking song about someone condemned to loneliness, who will never have the kind of love the song is about. That makes the song sadly beautiful, and too often painfully true. I have been married now for 51 years, so for me, love was not like trying to catch the wind. Money, however, is a different story 😂
When this song first came out, I was in grade school in the UK near the neighboring town of Hatfield where Donovan lived, and my music teacher said that she would see him performing in the town center where she would go shopping. Busking is an old English term, though I never heard of it back then, but that is how he started.
So beautiful that you found the ONE and have had 51 years together. Congratulations, and wishing you many more years together!
I am the youngest of 8 children. My eldest brother was 12 yrs. older than me. When I was a little kid, he would sing this to me. He passed at the age of 49 from a PE. This will always give me good memories.
One of my most beloved love songs. Lyrics are beautiful.
"When the rain has hung the leaves with tears..."
Yes, this song is so romantic and hopeless at the same time. Wonderful song.
The entire lyrics read like pure poetry!
Love Donovan! Many times he has thrown a rope down to me when I was I was in a deep dark hole. His albums have a way of getting all 4 wheels back on the road for me. ♥️
Early Donovan, when he was heavily influenced by Bob Dylan. His later psychedelic work came from his time with The Beatles and The Maharishi in India. His works kinda followed the Sixties in their progression from Folk to Folk Rock. ✌️
My favourite Donovan song. He reminds me so much of Bob Dylan.
Definitely his Dylan phase, so to speak, before his own voice and style emerged.
Right down to the neck-brace harmonica.
But a much better singer.
@@ChelseaPensioner-DJW Chelsea, I tend to agree with you, but on the other hand, I think sometimes a person's voice, although not technically "great", is still a perfect fit for the song they're rendering. Best example I have would be Dylan's version of an old song called "You Belong To Me", originally popularized by Jo Stafford many years ago. It starts out, "See the pyramids along the Nile..." The first time I listened to Bob's version (just acoustic guitar and his voice), I thought it sounded oddly comical, almost like someone just doing an "impression" of Bob. But just a little further in, it hit me how sincere and poignant his delivery was--- so perfect for the song, though not technically impressive. Just a few thoughts there... 🙂
@@ChelseaPensioner-DJW Everyone's a better singer than Dylan, but lyrically Donovan is outclassed
Donovan was my older brothers favorite artist. My brother passed in 1975 at 24 years old. This song played at his memorial service. It is beautiful and makes me sad.
This is easily in my top 10 all time songs. So calm and beautiful
I was brought up on Donovan. My dad once sat round a fire with him at a folk festival that was in the 60s
Absolutely my favorite. Thanks guys and whoever recommended this. "Colours" is great acoustic one too - and I think you guys would love " There is a mountain" and your kids would too. Love n peace n pets.
Good selections
A beautiful song from 60 years ago! Underrated artist!
"There is a Mountain" is a mesmerizing Donovan song with psychedelic lyrics.
This is my favourite song by Donovan.
Donovan’s daughter is actress Ione Skye who appeared as a teen in the classic film “Say Anything” with John Cusack. This is a beautiful song!
My favorite movie of all time!
My favorite movie of all time!
Good movie, also his son Donovan Leitch (Jr.) is a good actor and has been in several good movies.
I did not know that!! I love that movie. Thanks for that info
Donovan! My mom used to play his record when I was a child so I used to hear him a lot. In my 60's I love his music. Thank you to youtwo, you put a smile on my face a bit of a tear of remembrance in my eye.❤
Donovan is one of my favorite musicians. Thanks for playing this song, I hadn't heard this song in a long time. I really like it.😃
He was known as the Scottish Bob Dylan, his early records mostly featured acoustic guitar and had harmonica.
Donovan was as you may know, one of the friends the Beatles took along with them to visit the Maharishi in India for transcendence and meditation.
Love Donovon,grew up on him in the 70s and just loved him.❤
I love Donovan. ❤️
AW, I love the guest star who popped in at the end. He made everybody smile.
I had that album, such good songs, Sunshine Superman, Mellow Yellow, Atlantis, Hurdy Gurdy Man, the poster guy for Flower Power era
I don't think I've ever heard this song. I really like this! Just so well written and he sings it well, too. Pleasant surprise for me.
This music brings back great memories. Donovan is a Scottish musician & songwriter from the 60's who developed an eclectic & distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop & psychedelic rock. My favorite song by him is "Jennifer Juniper" from 1968. He had a lot of great hits such as "Colours", "Universal Soldier", "Sunshine Superman", "Mellow Yellow", "Hurdy Gurdy Man", "Atlantis" etc. Interesting note: He was friends with the Beatles & taught John & Paul a finger-picking guitar style that they used in some of their songs.
Luca is precious!!! Oh my goodness. All three of your children are precious, Jay and Amber. So beautiful!
I forgot about this song! It's been a hot minute since I've heard it. I didn't know this was the same guy who sang Season of the Witch.
Been a long time. Love this song. Yes he is definitely Dylan like here
OMG! Luca is SO BIG! I started watching the channel before he was born!
Colors is a must listen guys.
"Hurdy Gurdy Man" is another great one!
I have this song on my iTunes playlist. Loved it in the 60's and love it now.
The Union Gap "Young Girl" (a 60's classic)
Donovan is as versitile as all the Beatles wrapped up in one artist, and could just as easily produce quality melodies. Some of his best include Hurdy Gurdy Man, Universe Am I, Atlantis, Wear Your Love LIke Heaven, Cosmic Wheels, Sailing Homeward, Sunshine Superman (his biggest hit). Barabajagal, etc.
To my mind, this is one of the greatest love songs ever written.
My favorite of his songs! 🤗
Sleeper track: “Sand and Foam”. -it’s soooo good.
This is one of my favorites (and I like to play it on my guitar). Some other Donovan songs I like are "Atlantis," and "Barabajagal" (with Jeff Beck on guitar!). He is truly a unique guy. Check him out in the Dylan documentary "Don't Look Back."
This is a great acoustic version, but Donovan also has another version with a full band that's definitely worth checking out! It's on his Greatest Hits album, and is the one I grew up on and remember hearing in movies and commercials over the years. You'll also love his trippy, psychedelic "Hurdy Gurdy Man!"!!! Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones arranged and played bass on it. 🎸🔥🔥🔥 - FYI - a hurdy-gurdy is a stringed instrument that's played by turning a crank, which rubs a wheel across the strings.
I've been trying for some time to get them to react to Patty Gurdy. I know they would love the sound of that instrument, and her songs of course.
What a wonderful flashback. Always loved Donovan music. Great choice
I saw him live a few years back when he was like 80 and it was one of the best experiences of my life. Even at that age he was on fire, and except for all the deep cuts I love so much, he played everything I wanted and the stories he had, it was awesome.
Also, after the show I was walking to my car at the same exact time he came out of the venue and he literally walked right past me a foot away and I was able to tell him in passing how awesome he was and thanked him. He just smiled, but I know he heard me.
I am a very big fan and he has a LOT of truly amazing music.
He wrote the line "sky of blue, sea of green" in Yellow Submarine, and also taught John Lennon the guitar technique he used on The White Album.
He was called the Scottish Bob Dylan, but I don't like that. I think Dylan had stronger poetic merit to his lyrics, not to disparage Donovan's, but therein lies the problem with comparing.
I do think Donovan's music was prettier than Dylan's, and from what I've studied, I think I would like Donovan more as a person. He seems really nice and fun and peaceful and easy, whereas I would imagine Dylan is a bit more edgy and neurotic.
The first song I ever heard from Donovan was his cover of Buffy Saint-Marie's Universal Soldier, which I strongly recommend to everyone, but also so much more, including, Bert's Blues, and Sunny Goodge Street, to name a couple of my favorites. 🙏🙌💜🎶
I agree, and we have some of the same favorites!
This is one of my most favorite songs ever. Another of my most favorite songs is also by him called "Happiness Runs", which you should also check out. Thank you for reacting to this gem.
Amber is ROCKIN' her new hair style.
Donovan's first recording, released when he was 18
This song always makes me cry.
A fine song by Donovan, a great singer/songwriter of the 60's. 'Mellow Yellow' and 'Sunshine Superman' are two more good songs by him.
A song about a love he can never get to have,
Y'all still gotta try these too: Hurdy Gurdy Man __ Colours __ Sunshine Superman __ Jennifer Juniper. All of these, and those you already reacted to, were played often by my parents back then.
Donovan is a shaman of an Atlantedelutian order. The lock upon his garden gate's a snail (that's what it is)
I love this one so so much! Nice to see you guys❤
Donovan is like the Scottish Bob Dylan
You both are looking very good tonight, hope you are enjoying autumn.
I had always put Donovan and Cat Stevens in the same bucket of soft, melodious music that plays to my heart. Bob Dylan always stood alone as being at the pinnacle of folk music.
My dad had a mixed tape a friend made about 40 years ago and this was on it along with so many other awesome songs. Memories l😍
If you haven’t done it, Sunshine Superman is a must of his. One of his absolute best.
And hey you two FYI today Brenda Lee turned 80 . 80 years for Little Miss Dynamite 🧨. Remember her Friday.
Great pick for the day. Love ya. Keep up the great videos.
I love this song!! But it makes me want to cry. I would recommend Ritchie Havens' Follow.
Donovan guitar picking technique was instrumental to the Beatles. If I am not mistaken, he actually taught Paul McCartney that technique..
I believe he taught John who used it on Julia and Dear Prudence
@stevenbaggett6549 You are completely right, he did say that he could not show the technique to Paul McCartney because he was left-handed.
This song was playing at the end of Season 2 Episode 14 Brightwing, of the original Wonder Years. That show was truly second to none!!!
Donovan is British (Scottish). Catch the Wind was recorded and released in 1965; pretty much at the start of the 'Flower Power' era, which was all about passive resistance and nonviolence. To know more, read Allen Ginsberg's poem 'Howl'.
There's a hilarious clip from the Smothers Brothers show where they do a " folk off" (yes, intended) between themselves, Donovan, and Peter Paul and Mary. All their riffs are great.
I agree, I remember watching that segment on TV. Brought back a lot of memories when it got posted on RUclips!
yes, his prettiest song ; i'm partial to "sunshine superman" Tom Paxton "the last thing on my mind"
This song touches my very soul.
Great lyrics, I could relax listening to him all day.
I've always loved this song
The transition from Folk music of early 60's to British invasion. I liked the early Folky sound of Donavan, Dylan, Joan Baez, and others. Hi Luka
Me too! I love all those artists you just mentioned. Is there anyone else that has this sound?
John Prine and Tim Buckley and other of the 60's protest movement, many became members of mid-60'd rock bands like the Birds and Buffalo Springfield.
@@DojoOfCool Tim Hardin also comes to mind.
both Dylan and Donovan were playing folkrock at same time got together on Dylan's first English tour think he's in" Don't look back!"
I forgot about this Donovan song! So long since I've heard it, but it's simple & just lovely! So much like Dylan, IMO. Try Cat Stevens 'How Can I Tell You' for another simple masterpiece! Great Choice You Guys! :) Watched a second time, and missed Luka the first time around!
Yes, that Cat Stevens song became my favorite after hearing it again after so many years.
2 BIG things:
1. First YOU NEEED TO check out Donovan's Hurdy-Gurdy Man..........BECAUSE Donovan asked Jimmy Page to play on the song, he then went ahead and asked John Bonham and John Paul Jones, and this was BEFORE Led Zeppelin and the first time they were recorded together......In short, it was the beginning of Led Zeppelin, and except for Robert Plant, the song sounds just like the other three.
2. Just sayin', back after Dylan hit the scene everyone wanted to be him. ....which is why Donovan, Tom Petty and even Neil Young, preformed the way they did with just them their guitars and a harmonica. Dylan wasn't the first person to do this but he was as influential as the Beatles WHO ALSO have their Dylan inspired song.....Check out "Rocky Racoon" ....written by Paul emulating Dylan.
Donovan is a pure legend.
Catch the Wind, Little Tin Soldier, and Dona Dona are probably my favorite Donovan songs - the folk music more than the psychedelic.
Some other folksingers from the Sixties you may not have done include Phil Ochs (There But for Fortune, Changes, Here's to the State of Mississippi), Eric Andersen (Violets of Dawn, Close the Door Lightly When You Go), Buffy Sainte-Marie (Universal Soldier-famously covered by Donovan, Until It's Time for You to Go, My Country Tis of Thy People You're Dying), and Pete Seeger (Turn Turn Turn, Where Have All the Flowers Gone, If I Had a Hammer).
Donovan's son, Donovan Leitch, was in a band with the son of the Monkees' Mike Nesmith; and his daughter, Ione Skye, married a Beastie Boy. The music biz is a small world!
Beautiful song and definitely Dylanesque.
My favorite all time folk song.This song is about a love you can't have. Lost love, love unrequited. and actually, is about (a woman who became his wife], although I didn’t meet her until a year later. So it was prophetic. to Donovan.
Hurdy Gurdy man,Sunshine Superman,lalania,so many great songs!
I loved his song Atlantis! I was a little girl and my brother sang it at his high school concert.
This song is so beautiful. Thanks a bunch.
Now you MUST watch the documentary "Don't Look Back" about Bob Dylan's1965 tour of England. The whole time, the press was chasing after him, asking what he thought of Donovan. His response in the concert scene is priceless!
Yeah. He didn't seem too impressed with Donovan at the time.
Great song. Another great Donovan song to check out Jersey Thursday. It's another beautiful folk song.
Another beautiful version of this timeless song is performed by Joan Baez and her sister, Mimi Farina. I love their harmony.
Yes, and Joan also did a nice version with Mary Chapin Carpenter, as well as a duet with Donovan on "Colours".
Season of he Witch I love this song
Nice reaction. Thank you.
I think this is from Donovan’s first phase where he was aiming more at walking in Dylan’s footsteps.
And this one sounds so much like “Chimes of Freedom”.
Dylan gave him a hard time in the documentary of Dylan’s British tour, BOB DYLAN:DON’T LOOK BACK. And Donovan pivoted into the more psychedelic rock stuff he did later. I like all his phases, but his biggest hits are after this.
Slow Club, "When I Go."
OMG, Luca is adorable! Getting so big!
Great Donovan song. You should also check out Joan Baez "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Reached #3 on Billboard.
His greatest hits album has interesting songs…love his music,thanks
Thanks for this one so much. It’s been a not so great week and this song brings back really good memories from my childhood. ❤ My grandmother was a big Donovan fan and she would play this on guitar and we’d sing it together. Season of the Witch is definitely my favorite song by him, though.
Jay & Amber, you'll love his "Hurdy Gurdy Man"!!
Featuring Jeff Beck, as I recall.
Donavan’s vulnerable demeanor fit the hippy vibe for a lot of boomers.
I hope that you guys are well and going to have excellent holidays.
Some Canadian folk singers you might like to react to from the 60’s and 70’s are Ian and Sylvia Tyson (husband and wife duo), Bruce Cockburn, Valdy and Murray McLauchlan.
That's a typical song of his early albums which I like very much. They demonstrate how well he mastered guitar playing.
The songs "Try for the Sun" and "Ballad of Geraldine" are somehow of a similar style. They're from his album "Fairy Tale".
He recorded another version where drums come in toward the end. Either way it's a classic.
Yes, that was the version on the "Donovan's Greatest Hits" album. He also did a different version of "Colours" on the same album, which is another one that was also great version.
Thank you for this great reaction. Some more great Donovan songs are Lalena, Jennifer Juniper, Wear Your Love Like Heaven. He has so many great songs.