Paul McCartney & Donovan - Post Card Sessions (1968)

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  • Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
  • 0:00 How Do You Do? (McCartney)
    2:28 Blackbird (Lennon/McCartney)
    04:53 The Unicorn (Donovan)
    06:09 Laleña (Donovan)
    09:23 Heather (McCartney)
    11:22 Mr. Wind (Donovan)
    12:53 The Walrus And The Carpenter (Donovan)
    14:02 Land Of Gish (Donovan)
    "Post Card Sessions"
    Late 1968 (approx. October-December)
    Recorded during the sessions for Mary Hopkin's Postcard LP
    A full transcript of this session can be found here:
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Комментарии • 117

  • @shell_R
    @shell_R  2 года назад +57

    To all people wondering, these outtakes from Abbey Road came to light on the 1978 LP "No. 3 Abbey Road N.W. 8". I'm definitely not the one who exhumed it. The Post Card Sessions were previously on RUclips before being removed a couple months ago due to a copyright claim.

  • @jimrebr
    @jimrebr 7 месяцев назад +15

    Beautiful Donavon and gorgeous Paul, two beautiful men with wonderful songs, such cool cats!! This is lovely, I love them. ❤ I love when Paul says “we’re nice people too”, Paul singing about Heather, his adopted daughter, so sweet, Paul is such a great dad and Granddude!❤

    • @giaconealessandro3930
      @giaconealessandro3930 6 месяцев назад +2

      "Heather" has the same chords as "Great Day", a song that was written approx. in that period, and later published on "Off the Ground" (1992)

  • @OakwiseBecoming
    @OakwiseBecoming Год назад +75

    This was the most healing and relaxing thing I’ve heard in years. What a shame these guys never did anything together

    • @KimSenior
      @KimSenior 11 месяцев назад +16

      McCartney sang backing vocals on Donovan’s Mellow Yellow.

    • @Mandrake591
      @Mandrake591 11 месяцев назад +14

      @@KimSeniorI think he meant more than that, and I’ve heard that story, but his involvement with Mellow Yellow was incidental at best, if not a myth.

    • @TheMarioRicciardi
      @TheMarioRicciardi 6 месяцев назад +3

      I guess they actually diis some music together un Postcard. The opening song is the three of them, Paul and Donovan playing awesome low tuned guitars and Mary singing...

    • @SeasonedAngel1
      @SeasonedAngel1 4 месяца назад +1

      Paul also sang background vocal for Donovan on song Atlantis. You can certainly recognize Paul's voice.

  • @vinylflowersss
    @vinylflowersss 10 месяцев назад +14

    This is so beautiful 😭 something about this music feels like it nestles in all the cracks of your soul that have desperately needed healing for a long time.

    • @oldbrownshoe
      @oldbrownshoe 8 месяцев назад +2

      sooooo true, most of donovan's music does this for me :)

  • @humbarcam
    @humbarcam 2 года назад +45

    Amazing Donovan and McCartney jam, they sound great together

  • @PaisleyPatchouli
    @PaisleyPatchouli 11 месяцев назад +29

    This represents Donovan's style and songs from his underrated double LP set 'HMS Donovan', which was recorded from '68 thru '71 and released in '71. It has mostly children's songs and 'nursery rhyme' sort of material, including his unequalled versions of Jabberwocky and The Walrus and The Carpenter. If you're interested in Donovan, check out those recordings; some of them are fantastic.

    • @user-wt1pe7gk7j
      @user-wt1pe7gk7j 8 месяцев назад +2

      Love Paul and Donovan. ❤❤Both men are fantastic musicians.Incredibly talented. 🤗🤗😊😊👍👍

  • @stevehrrn9445
    @stevehrrn9445 11 месяцев назад +26

    Nice sounding Guild acoustic. An underated guitar!!

    • @FlipDahlenburg
      @FlipDahlenburg 11 месяцев назад

      They are very polished-sounding guitars! And Guild has always made about the best 12-string acoustic you can buy in a store.

  • @80sMeavyHetal
    @80sMeavyHetal 11 месяцев назад +12

    Electric bill, please dont be high
    Electric bill: Paul McCartney & Donovan - Post Card Sessions (1968)

  • @sergiooscar4239
    @sergiooscar4239 11 месяцев назад +11

    Amazing Donovan and Paul McCartney

  • @thesilvershining
    @thesilvershining 2 года назад +30

    These two sound so great together

  • @chelmsfordroad50
    @chelmsfordroad50 2 года назад +44

    Where has this been hiding for 53 years? Gentle, dreamy and beautiful; wonderful find. Great version of Lalena and it sounds like the first song, How do you do? shouldn't have been laid aside. I think there's something there.

    • @estebannamez7231
      @estebannamez7231 11 месяцев назад +1

      Yes, there was something there--it was the 60's and a couple of lads were having some good fun!

    • @puckf17
      @puckf17 8 месяцев назад +1

      In the shadows. Lennon asked him to help with Julia, John described him mum & Donovan essentially wrote it. He also "helped" with Blackbird. There's a clip of that somewhere. Same Indian trip.

    • @ewest14
      @ewest14 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@puckf17he didn’t help with Blackbird. Paul did it himself while watching Donovan teach John guitar picking

    • @SeasonedAngel1
      @SeasonedAngel1 4 месяца назад

      @puckf17, Donovan helped Paul learn this particular type of fingering on guitar. Paul wrote the words & melody to Blackbird.

  • @nedadevcic5840
    @nedadevcic5840 2 года назад +27

    Wow! What a lovely surprise! Music to my ears👃🤗🥰 Exquisite!👌

  • @evanmuller1967
    @evanmuller1967 11 месяцев назад +13

    30 seconds in, and I'm smiling ear-to-ear. Two of the best to ever do it.

  • @matrixInvader
    @matrixInvader 11 месяцев назад +10

    Paul is seriously the master. I have new songs to learn

  • @peterschmitz6446
    @peterschmitz6446 11 месяцев назад +10

    More and more hidden Gems appear... wonderful !

  • @lorrainemartin2869
    @lorrainemartin2869 11 месяцев назад +11

    Paul was into meditation and now he’s into yoga and gets a massage every morning.

  • @sallywilson1343
    @sallywilson1343 Год назад +11

    Apparently, this was a sound-check for Mary Hopkin's studio recording of the Donovan songs. You can hear her singing softly on Blackbird.

  • @heggy_69
    @heggy_69 Год назад +10

    I like the fact that he has a guitar while sitting under a sign that says "silence zone"

  • @pauledwards3992
    @pauledwards3992 Год назад +13

    Another great collaboration jam is at the 9:30 mark where Donovan and Paul sing something called Heaven until the 11:20 mark and again, it's astounding the both of them singing and playing. Man, i wish Donovan and the Beatles wiuld have collaborated on some sings to produce in the studio, would have been brilliant ! I know they assisted on bit parts in songs, but a full on collaboration as indicated by hiw well they played here, would have been so cool.

    • @ExplodingPsyche
      @ExplodingPsyche 11 месяцев назад +4

      The song is Heather, and it's about Paul's adopted daughter. (Linda's daughter)

    • @pauledwards3992
      @pauledwards3992 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@ExplodingPsyche - Well, thanks, didn't know the song was called Heather, appreciate the insight.

    • @ExplodingPsyche
      @ExplodingPsyche 11 месяцев назад

      @@pauledwards3992 You're welcome.

  • @TheFlowNetwork
    @TheFlowNetwork Год назад +9

    I haven't heard this is years. I had this bootleg LP in the 80's. Many stoned nights listening to this. I think on the flipside was John Lennon and Syd Barrett doing "What A Shame Mary Jane" and some other psychedelic stoned meanderings.

  • @buttercup1765
    @buttercup1765 Год назад +11

    Just lovely...especially Heather

  • @JMBvideo
    @JMBvideo 11 месяцев назад +11

    That guitar is remarkably in tune

  • @brianweide2063
    @brianweide2063 11 месяцев назад +10

    Masterpiece off the cuff!

  • @Rkw772
    @Rkw772 Год назад +24

    I’m glad this tape exists so that people who say Paul as of late made up his Blackbird story can now shut the up.

    • @FlipDahlenburg
      @FlipDahlenburg 11 месяцев назад +1

      I thought he'd made it up, too! He was referring to the riots. Don't riot, folks. Yet, he has claimed that because he used the 'N' word once in a great while as a youth, that he was a racist. Does anyone here really believe Paul's a racist? Intent is the issue. Both sides use that word. Paul wants to be loved by everyone, it's his biggest chain around his neck in his life. Also an asset, if used properly. He's a good man, the personal testimony is universal, and he doesn't need to pose as one, as 80% of Notables do today, and probably always have. Actions speak much louder than words.

    • @Rkw772
      @Rkw772 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@FlipDahlenburg I’ve never heard Paul call himself a racist. I’m a Beatles and McCartney fanatic. I listen to everything and read all the books. People just make crap up. Like John NEVER SAID that Ringo was even the best drummer in the Beatles but people keep repeating it. Why don’t people fact check before they repeat lies.

    • @FlipDahlenburg
      @FlipDahlenburg 11 месяцев назад

      I watched and listened to Paul say it on a video just a few years ago. You can easily look it up, it was 'newsworthy in the modern sense' at the time. Otherwise, I agree with your post.@@Rkw772

    • @ewest14
      @ewest14 6 месяцев назад +3

      @@FlipDahlenburgI would like a source for Paul saying that about himself as I’ve never seen it and don’t believe it

    • @ewest14
      @ewest14 6 месяцев назад +6

      Every time someone says Paul is rewriting history, a source seems to pop up and prove them wrong. When will people give it a rest and just accept that Paul isn’t this master manipulator and liar. Of course he’s probably misremembered one or two things just like everyone else, but for the most part, he doesn’t lie or make stories up

  • @pauledwards3992
    @pauledwards3992 Год назад +15

    Wow ! The jam between Donovan and Paul on Donovan's song Lalena from about the 6:30 mark to about 8:30 mark for two minutes is astounding ! The lead guitar Paul is accompanying with to Donovan's song is amazing ! Where have these nuggets been hiding ?

    • @nigelgibson2242
      @nigelgibson2242 11 месяцев назад +2

      Totally agree. It's thehighlight of this recording, utterly beautiful!

  • @ricklanders
    @ricklanders Год назад +12

    Wow, Paul is so stoned

  • @stevefaure415
    @stevefaure415 11 месяцев назад +7

    Awesome and a lot better than I would have suspected. I don't think the sections with poor audio distract at all. It was never meant to be a studio release, they're goofing, probably stoned, just having fun. Paul brought out the best in everyone, it seems.

    • @hammer44head
      @hammer44head 11 месяцев назад +1

      probably? If that photo was taken at the session i would say Paul is pretty well baked, though still pretty tanned from the India trip.

    • @FlipDahlenburg
      @FlipDahlenburg 11 месяцев назад

      He's red as a beet! Tan, don't burn, use Coppertone!@@hammer44head

  • @Sekaoh
    @Sekaoh 11 месяцев назад +6

    Since I was young, and my mom printed the wiki page for the Beatles song list, Heather was one i was curious about. Still cool to hear Heather here during this session

  • @csababerenyi7683
    @csababerenyi7683 Год назад +29

    Omg Heather is pure gold what a perfect little nothing from Paul

    • @gillesserrigny6324
      @gillesserrigny6324 Год назад +6

      Heather reminds me the little Paul's song at the end of Cry Baby Cry : Can You Take Me Back 🤔.

  • @robcotter3072
    @robcotter3072 Год назад +13

    Amazing what they may have did together in India.

  • @Thrasher_Abbatoir
    @Thrasher_Abbatoir 2 года назад +16

    This is great.

  • @thelaststarpilot
    @thelaststarpilot 11 месяцев назад +4

    It sounds like me and my dad late at night smoking pot and drinking wine having a giggle… We’re all the same after all

  • @1000sguzzi
    @1000sguzzi 11 месяцев назад +2

    A wonderful treat to hear this. Thanks.

  • @lorrainemartin2869
    @lorrainemartin2869 11 месяцев назад +5

    Check out Paul’s performance of India on RUclips. Beautiful song. Haunting

  • @AndrewHeller-jn7dx
    @AndrewHeller-jn7dx 11 месяцев назад +3

    Thanks So Much!!!!!!!
    Great Content!!!!!!!!!!
    God Bless!!

  • @HomeAtLast501
    @HomeAtLast501 11 месяцев назад +6

    1968.
    - MacArthur Park was a hit
    - MLK was shot
    - RFK was shot
    - Elvis did Comeback

  • @paulbadoo9326
    @paulbadoo9326 11 месяцев назад +10

    Paul's guitar sounds amazing. Probably his Martin d28, but made in 60s with better woods. I own one, and it sounds nowhere near. I don't play like McCartney of course, but it's not the playing. You can tell when he just plucks a string how the wood resonates beatifully.

    • @FlipDahlenburg
      @FlipDahlenburg 11 месяцев назад +1

      Good call! And the Martin's G-string drones deliciously when he hits it hard!

  • @jameskennedy721
    @jameskennedy721 Год назад +5

    Both guys have many melodies going on in their work . Its very interesting to hear them just trying out ideas . Donovan was working on the HURDY GURDY album at this time , a work just as great as their stuff .

  • @Steviepinhead
    @Steviepinhead 5 месяцев назад

    Good for you!

  • @antoniocorrea4934
    @antoniocorrea4934 7 месяцев назад +1

    The Land of Gish ❤

  • @familydogg1234
    @familydogg1234 11 месяцев назад +2

    By coincidence- MARY HOPKINS Postcard LP features McCartney and has 3 DONOVAN songs

    • @subg8858
      @subg8858 11 месяцев назад +1

      That’s not a coincidence. That’s why they’re together here in the first place

  • @douglaschristine8387
    @douglaschristine8387 11 месяцев назад +4

    Paul looks ripped.

  • @baselinesweb
    @baselinesweb 11 месяцев назад +4

    That is one stoned Paul.

  • @TooLooze
    @TooLooze 11 месяцев назад +1

    The Shaman and Sir Paul.

  • @ThinkermanQuindo
    @ThinkermanQuindo 11 месяцев назад +9

    What a combination they would have made… every note seems pregnant with possibilites

  • @ghostwaker5914
    @ghostwaker5914 11 месяцев назад

    My GENERATION ! ✌

  • @MediaWest
    @MediaWest 11 месяцев назад +5

    no reason these two didnt put out great tunes. but contracts during those days were a pain. why clapton never took credit on beatles. shame.

  • @JohnSmith-no1nl
    @JohnSmith-no1nl Год назад +4

    Paul McCartney does sing the part of That's Right on Mellow Yellow plus i think on Riki Tivi Tacie 🏃🏃🏃🚶✌️❤️🙏

  • @orchidlove-kz2ky
    @orchidlove-kz2ky 2 года назад +4

    good morning friend enjoy good music

  • @adamuser8246
    @adamuser8246 11 месяцев назад +2

    I'll have what their smokin.

  • @anfrankogezamartincic1161
    @anfrankogezamartincic1161 11 месяцев назад

    DONOVAN is a cool dude, i knew almost nothing about his music,then i heard HURDY GURDY MAN cover by BUTTHOLE SURFERS, then i became interested, SUNSHINE SUPERMAN was my first, but he's doing new stuff too, i listen it on RUclips. Found interview in MOJO (or UNCUT?", he's a very smart gentlemen, still interested in new music

  • @cosmicdepot2278
    @cosmicdepot2278 11 месяцев назад +6

    Good going Billy 🎉

    • @alexfeigmusic
      @alexfeigmusic 11 месяцев назад +2

      The one and only BS

    • @cosmicdepot2278
      @cosmicdepot2278 11 месяцев назад

      @@alexfeigmusic we knew it all the walrus was Paul

    • @ericthefish01
      @ericthefish01 10 месяцев назад +1

      Daft ha'p'orth!

  • @illuminotmereloaded6896
    @illuminotmereloaded6896 Год назад +5

    Good morning Mr. Leitch. Have you had a busy day?

  • @MrBuffalo2
    @MrBuffalo2 Год назад +3

    No reference to Mississippi John Hurt on 1st song..mm.

  • @FlipDahlenburg
    @FlipDahlenburg 11 месяцев назад

    In the photo, Donovan's Grovers on the treble side are all a-slant, if you know what I mean.

  • @hungfao
    @hungfao 11 месяцев назад +2

    I wonder who else was there? Hopkins?

  • @lorrainemartin2869
    @lorrainemartin2869 11 месяцев назад +2

    He drinks green tea.

  • @toddswartz3510
    @toddswartz3510 11 месяцев назад

    I think there may have been some LSD involved....lol. so cool!!!

  • @ajay54321
    @ajay54321 2 года назад +5

    kooka burra sits on an old gum tree

  • @govinda102000
    @govinda102000 11 месяцев назад +4

    To me, if they would have been better than Simon and Garfunkel.

  • @ikkenhisatsu7170
    @ikkenhisatsu7170 11 месяцев назад +2

    Donovan got kinda lost in the mix. Great artist.

  • @lorrainemartin2869
    @lorrainemartin2869 11 месяцев назад +3

    I’m a close friend of Paul’s. He’s told me many secrets such as he still smoke. I warned him about his chest pain and told him to call his doctor so he did. Believe it or not we met on Facebook! 😅

    • @paulandrew6457
      @paulandrew6457 11 месяцев назад +1

      You've been suckered Paul is not on Facebook. He has an official page run by his people

    • @stevenm2699
      @stevenm2699 11 месяцев назад

      @@paulandrew6457 I believe he uses a fake FB account. Like it's a different person's name and pictures but it is really is Paul behind it. He DMs people occasionally and reveals himself. Sometimes he does try to solicit sex from women but not always.

  • @rumginray
    @rumginray 8 месяцев назад

    7:55 -The origins of Monkberry Moon Delight?

    • @KitNuthall
      @KitNuthall 16 дней назад

      Good pick up but I believe that’s a part of Donovan’s lalena

  • @thestrangepasenger
    @thestrangepasenger 11 месяцев назад +2

    no, William shears campbell, and Donovan

    • @ericthefish01
      @ericthefish01 10 месяцев назад +2

      You silly sausage, don't be daft!

  • @cuda426hemi
    @cuda426hemi Год назад +3

    Bookend this with Donovan hangin' with Dylan and Dylan basically ghosting him while ol Donny is trotting out Catch The Wind and just trying to be a bud, ...it's funny and pathetic at same time... it's on the Tube So should the sick banter between Lennon and Bud Dolan - I mean Bob Dylan in the taxi be around...Baby, You're A Rich (but slightly cruel) Men 🎵

  • @welcometothepsyop3639
    @welcometothepsyop3639 11 месяцев назад

    Mellow yellow is the only track with bio paul and billy singing on the same track.

  • @RandyTorrez-wb5sz
    @RandyTorrez-wb5sz 11 месяцев назад

    RANDY JUDAH TORREZ ❤️ <
    JPM 😆 🤣 😂
    Ahhhh I don't think so?

  • @rossdsg
    @rossdsg 11 месяцев назад +2

    Ceci montre à quel point McCartney était meilleur que Donovan.

    • @johnbrereton5229
      @johnbrereton5229 2 месяца назад

      They are both very talented it's wrong to put one above the other.

  • @mcashnv
    @mcashnv 11 месяцев назад +3

    Kind of mamby-pamby. Needs more guts.

  • @nothwind
    @nothwind 11 месяцев назад +3

    This is not the real Paul, as he was dead....this is his replacement, Billie

    • @KimSenior
      @KimSenior 11 месяцев назад

      If you believe that shit you need to get a brain scan to establish if you have one!🙄

    • @lorrainemartin2869
      @lorrainemartin2869 11 месяцев назад +4

      Not true.

    • @lorrainemartin2869
      @lorrainemartin2869 11 месяцев назад +5

      There is and always only one Paul McCartney. He’s just stoned in this pic. 😊

    • @KimSenior
      @KimSenior 11 месяцев назад

      @@lorrainemartin2869 Don’t waste your time trying to convince this Muppet.😊

    • @jayaybe1
      @jayaybe1 11 месяцев назад

      Go take your brain for a *h*t mate. Oh, you already did...

  • @gasparucciox9706
    @gasparucciox9706 9 месяцев назад +2

    shame that they didn't release a record

  • @gasparucciox9706
    @gasparucciox9706 11 месяцев назад +1

    great!