This is exactly the kind of thing that makes RUclips such a wonderful resource. Never would have guessed that these three guys played together. And damn, it's so good.
Surely you jest? John's dad was a classical harmonica player who put out several albums. John was doing harmonica sessions before the Spoonful took off.
Travelling Light was a hit for Cliff Richard, this year he had a top 5 album in the Uk charts, only artist to have a top five album in eight different decades.
@@tomcarl8021 I should have explained myself more clearly. The US is the biggest individual - music market, however one doesn't need the US market to succeed. Plenty of UK/European artists have gone well in the UK/Europe/Australia, without necessarily making it in the US. And plenty of US artists have made it just in Nth America.
@@tomcarl8021 That's why he has said UK charts... Funny how Devil Woman got to number 6 in the US when he 'never sold one goddamn record in the US', fact check - FAILED 🤣
Donovan is great....always like his songs.....but CLIFF RICHARD is the MASTER...and a beautiful peaceful person.... though very very modest!!! There is no second Cliff Richard in our world...🙏🏿🎈🎈🎈👏🏿
I am a hugh Donovan fan and this is the first time I have ever heard him perform this song! It's fantastic! Last saw Donovan in concert a few years ago now up in Monterey, California. Thanks for posting this song!
Are they all three smooth as honey or what? and, um, so young. Well done. I saw Donovan in 71 or 72, loved his music but didn't want to go see him but off I went and forever glad - he puts on a great show . John Sebastian is expert at several instruments and only has gotten better through the years - and that slide- I am going to check out more Bromberg. Wow what a great song with morning coffee.
If you aren't so familiar with Bromberg, check out his playing on the first 3 Jerry Jeff Walker's albums. Mr. Bojangles, Driftin Way of life, 5 Years Gone.
Donovan is back with his I’m the Shaman. Listened to it yesterday while I only know for the first time that he had sung this great song! Adorable! Thanks for posting it!
Superb!! Simply wonderful vocal and great singer and songwriter ❤Love Donovan my is a legend . My ídolo teenager ❤Simply wonderful vical and great singer and songwriter ❤Love Donovan my is a legend . My ídolo teenager ❤
nick ricciotti ~ yes indeed...& for further fun check out David + John’s great live acoustic performance of David’s ‘Demon in Disguise’...(& don’t let the glasses fool ya...)
Always been a Donovan fan and this is the first time I have heard this, very good version, sounds superb.... Saw him in a recent TV interview, has that music "legend" persona, well done Donovan. Keep up the good work.
yes, cliff richard, and his sound was very much like rickey nelson, they were both big about the same time. cliff was in england, rickey was here in the states. and cliff was an anglo indian, perhaps from Calcutta😎, has a great sound. cliff's work, to me, is the english version of rockabilly😎
Donovan did record this solo, for a never-realized country / covers album from his extended period of writer's block ca. 1971-73. Stealin' was another song he mentioned at the time.
If you enjoy John Sebastian's harmonica playing in this..then you may also enjoy "John Sebastian singing She's a Lady" here on RUclips..at the end of the song he banters with the presenter and plays the harmonica when he's trying to introduce Buffy Saint Marie...check it out!
Exactly my thoughts as well when he said he didn't know where it came from. I was 6 in 59 and I remember cliff singing it. I wouldn't know what Donavan was listening to then but it can't have been the Radio.
Jesus what a slice out of a another time. They're all playing so well, complete pros, but it's all so slightly twisted at the same time. It's very much in the tradition of vaudeville, that what you were there for, what you were getting paid for, and what people expected was entertainment, not high art. These guys for all they had to do with any sort of rustic, rural American life they're singin' about (Sebastian is from Brooklyn, Donovan from Scotland, and Bromberg a boy from Philly) they do it right.
Three musical geniuses perfectly blending their crafts into harmonic (pun not originally intended, but it works) ecstasy. Smooth as silk, yet raw enough to still have a little “bite” to it. All three are privy to the secrets of collaborative folk music in its most organic form, and this is that drop of clear liquid folk to put under your tongue to see true folk music for what it should be.
Forgot that this was pre-internet but even so, if Donovan had bought the sheet music, it would have had a massive picture of Cliff on it which is a bit of a give-away
@@Gazolba 1940's song had the same title (different spelling), Cliff and the Shadows were the 1st ones to record this. Written by Tepper and Bennett who wrote loads of songs for Cliff and the Shadows.
Aquesta cançó és com una màquina del temps, em transporta al passat, Cliff Richard, Donovan, Loving Spoonful... quins records de joventut que sempre perduraran...
Good version of Cliff's old song which I've always liked (oh no) but I don't know how Donovan could not know who first recorded it. After all, he must have looked up the words and I personally would want to know who first did it. My guess is that he didn't want to admit to singing a Cliff song.
Traveling light was on a herman hermits album.i think but not surre hermans hermits on tour.i saw donovan at beatlefest,.with kelly his green guitar,told many stories.he san guinevere of the royal house of athens.
John Sebastian giving a perfect example of how a harp blends and accentuates without ever getting in the way. Intelligent, inventive and soulful.
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Well said....agreed
This is exactly the kind of thing that makes RUclips such a wonderful resource. Never would have guessed that these three guys played together. And damn, it's so good.
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I just hope that audience appreciated the privilege of hearing three such musical masters displaying their craft.
A diamond in the rough :)
Cool! Donovan sounds fab!
yeah, well, it's from a time when music was authentic expression, and musicians were actually talented.
I keep returning to this awesome performance. I'm a Donovan fan from mid 1960's. And John Lovin Spoonful Sebastian.
An attribution would have been nice. It was Cliff Richard in 1961 who had the original hit. For me Cliff nailed it and made the song his.
What a find - I had no idea John Sebastian could play harmonica so beautifully.
Surely you jest? John's dad was a classical harmonica player who put out several albums. John was doing harmonica sessions before the Spoonful took off.
Simply wonderful vocals by Donovan, ably supported by fantastic contributions from Dave and John.
Travelling Light was a hit for Cliff Richard, this year he had a top 5 album in the Uk charts, only artist to have a top five album in eight different decades.
@@tomcarl8021 The world doesn't centre on the US
@@tomcarl8021 I should have explained myself more clearly. The US is the biggest individual - music market, however one doesn't need the US market to succeed. Plenty of UK/European artists have gone well in the UK/Europe/Australia, without necessarily making it in the US. And plenty of US artists have made it just in Nth America.
@@tomcarl8021pj proby had to come to UK to be successful. As did Scott Walker
@@tomcarl8021 That's why he has said UK charts... Funny how Devil Woman got to number 6 in the US when he 'never sold one goddamn record in the US', fact check - FAILED 🤣
David Bromberg really is the realest deal. All 3 are amazing.
He had the Grateful Dead backing him up on his album from that year!
Now there is a stage full of Real Musical Character☝️🤔🤙😎👏🥳
No words to give my opinion !!!❤❤❤❤❤
GOOD OLD "YOU TUBE" THANK YOU !
Donovan is great....always like his songs.....but CLIFF RICHARD is the MASTER...and a beautiful peaceful person.... though very very modest!!! There is no second Cliff Richard in our world...🙏🏿🎈🎈🎈👏🏿
I am a hugh Donovan fan and this is the first time I have ever heard him perform this song! It's fantastic! Last saw Donovan in concert a few years ago now up in Monterey, California.
Thanks for posting this song!
Ah, the great Hugh Donovan!
This song was first recorded by Cliff Richard in the 1960's.
@@charlesschoeman9488 That's true - ans there's another song by the same name by leonard Cohen
Same for me
As much beauty as the harp has given me,falling upon this song has moved me. That was the good stuff
This is the first time I've heard this song! I do remember John from the Lovin Spoonful-wow, so long ago! I graduated high school in 1971.
Donovan is a legend a lovely guy a great singer
And he's back with a bang - have you heard Shaman?
Holy crap.
John Sebastian is an awesome harmonica player
He can play many instruments - all well.
He played on roadhouse blues
John's father, also John, was known as a master of the classical chromatic harmonica. Runs in the family.
A Cliff Richard tune. Herman's Hermits also covered it.
Travelling Light. Cliff Richard and the Shadows
Are they all three smooth as honey or what? and, um, so young. Well done. I saw Donovan in 71 or 72, loved his music but didn't want to go see him but off I went and forever glad - he puts on a great show . John Sebastian is expert at several instruments and only has gotten better through the years - and that slide- I am going to check out more Bromberg. Wow what a great song with morning coffee.
If you aren't so familiar with Bromberg, check out his playing on the first 3 Jerry Jeff Walker's albums. Mr. Bojangles, Driftin Way of life, 5 Years Gone.
Donovan is back with his I’m the Shaman. Listened to it yesterday while I only know for the first time that he had sung this great song! Adorable! Thanks for posting it!
Going to listen to it now, you got me curious! 😲
The 3 performers are wonderful.
This is what music is meant to be!
Wondeful clip with three musical geniuses.
Amazing sounds & so,so good!
Una preciosidad. Relaja mucho.
Many a Donovan concert I saw back in the day. Still my fav. I love these 3 together.
Superb!! Simply wonderful vocal and great singer and songwriter ❤Love Donovan my is a legend . My ídolo teenager ❤Simply wonderful vical and great singer and songwriter ❤Love Donovan my is a legend . My ídolo teenager ❤
magic
Lost art love that harmonica ! 👁❤️🎶🎸👍🏻❤️🌻
Thanks. I hadn't heard this.
for those of you who didn't realize how great a harmonica player John is that's him on the Door's Road house Blues
he went under a different name what was it?
his father was a classical harmonica player
Thanks Nick , Didn't know that ..
ruclips.net/video/CHDTQuz4CSg/видео.html
nick ricciotti ~ yes indeed...& for further fun check out David + John’s great live acoustic performance of David’s ‘Demon in Disguise’...(& don’t let the glasses fool ya...)
Great version of the song. Harmonica and dobro just right in there.
3 of my all-time favorites! what a gem !!!
Always been a Donovan fan and this is the first time I have heard this, very good version, sounds superb....
Saw him in a recent TV interview, has that music "legend" persona, well done Donovan. Keep up the good work.
I love this ‘country’ version 🥰
One of my favourites from
my dads collection of songs...it was brilliant to hear the song again...wonderful cover...
Think I've been a huge fan of Sebastian more than 50 years. This was wonderful.
Wow, nice video.
He is a great musician and i love the way he plays harmonica, im learning and he is my inspiration.
Thanks for share :)
Excelente performance en vivo y sin ningún artilugio. Folk puro y bueno!
creative minds never has any barriers, they can think in all the languages they know and compose in it.
Donovan é a Apoteose da música FOLK adoro escutar e tocar as melodias do Donovan
Dylan e Richie Havens também
Donovan is playing cliff's version, even in the same key!
yes, cliff richard, and his sound was very much like rickey nelson, they were both big about the same time. cliff was in england, rickey was here in the states. and cliff was an anglo indian, perhaps from Calcutta😎, has a great sound. cliff's work, to me, is the english version of rockabilly😎
Yup.....
Donovan did record this solo, for a never-realized country / covers album from his extended period of writer's block ca. 1971-73. Stealin' was another song he mentioned at the time.
I wish he would make it available to buy.
If you enjoy John Sebastian's harmonica playing in this..then you may also enjoy "John Sebastian singing She's a Lady" here on RUclips..at the end of the song he banters with the presenter and plays the harmonica when he's trying to introduce Buffy Saint Marie...check it out!
The whole album John B. Sebastian
John Sebastian can play that harp!
I’ve give him tomorrow followed by forever and a day ❤
Amazing! Thank you!
Love Sir Cliff Richard’s original
Superb.
Solid gold,real music.
Shame on Donovan for not remembering that Cliff had a massive hit with this song!! He is old enough!! Good rendition though!
Just bullshit from Donovan I reckon - he must've known but didn't think it would be cool to admit it! Irritated me as well.
@@thebadloser get over it.
So long ago and still traveling on :)
hard to believe he didn't know it was a big hit for Cliff Richard. it was a # 1 hit in th UK !
Proably he forgot it by the mid 1970s. When the song was released in 1959 Donovan was a 12 or 13 year old boy.
Does it really matter?
Exactly my thoughts as well when he said he didn't know where it came from. I was 6 in 59 and I remember cliff singing it. I wouldn't know what Donavan was listening to then but it can't have been the Radio.
Too Sweet !!!
And no one sang about bodily functins or repeated the same phrase ten times.
Donovan, Bromberg and Sebastion.. WOW
John Sebastian played on a Gordon Lightfoot album.
And on Roadhouse Blues on "Morrisons Hotel" with the Doors under the name G. Pugliese
Jesus what a slice out of a another time. They're all playing so well, complete pros, but it's all so slightly twisted at the same time. It's very much in the tradition of vaudeville, that what you were there for, what you were getting paid for, and what people expected was entertainment, not high art. These guys for all they had to do with any sort of rustic, rural American life they're singin' about (Sebastian is from Brooklyn, Donovan from Scotland, and Bromberg a boy from Philly) they do it right.
Three musical geniuses perfectly blending their crafts into harmonic (pun not originally intended, but it works) ecstasy. Smooth as silk, yet raw enough to still have a little “bite” to it. All three are privy to the secrets of collaborative folk music in its most organic form, and this is that drop of clear liquid folk to put under your tongue to see true folk music for what it should be.
David Bromberg is so under appreciated.
See the Dylan Bromberg project
That harmonica solo..............
He's great at harmonic .I got a hohnner. Chromatic.and a few other instruments. Learned a lot by watching Donovan. And Bob Dylan. Happy days then
I think John Sebastian was supposed to marry me back in the 70s...ya missed it John! lol
haha, even though i wasnt even born yet, i like to think the same thing! :)
Jen T the love of my love and I used his songs as our personal short hand.
Good look.
Forgot that this was pre-internet but even so, if Donovan had bought the sheet music, it would have had a massive picture of Cliff on it which is a bit of a give-away
Why? It wasn't written or first performed by Cliff Richard. It's a song from the 1940's.
@@Gazolba 1940's song had the same title (different spelling), Cliff and the Shadows were the 1st ones to record this. Written by Tepper and Bennett who wrote loads of songs for Cliff and the Shadows.
Superb
Recorded by Cliff Richards.
Has donavan never heard of Cliff Richard ? he sang this with the shadows 19 61
Un grande Donovan
Sweet!
PBS had great shows back in the 70s on Sounstage
At the risk of upsetting someone I have to say Austin City Limits has nothing on the original PBS Soundstage program.
Great place to catch musicians you wouldnt see anywhere else
Fabtastic.
Just love
Donovan has the mellowest tone . . . This one has a country flair and needs to be covered by Keith Urban or Brad Paisley! More Donovan please!
Cliff Richard and The Shadows mate!
Beautiful. What would Cliff Richard say?
John Sebastian also played harmonica on The Doors' Roadhouse Blues. He was versatile enough to play against type.
Aquesta cançó és com una màquina del temps, em transporta al passat, Cliff Richard, Donovan, Loving Spoonful... quins records de joventut que sempre perduraran...
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First heard it as B-side of a Herman's Hermits single.
Nice!!!
Cliff Richard did this song in !961..long before you mate....
1959
And?
@@jacquiethielen 1961 was wrong. So I corrected. That's it.
You just hit that right on the head!- 👍
Holy f that harmonica
How cool is this? Thanks for sharing mate!
I don't know who did it.. he says. How can that be, such a popular and well known tune in those days...
I love this one, thank you for posting it. :-)
Good version of Cliff's old song which I've always liked (oh no) but I don't know how Donovan could not know who first recorded it. After all, he must have looked up the words and I personally would want to know who first did it. My guess is that he didn't want to admit to singing a Cliff song.
rocketpost1 hmm I think Donovan had his tongue firmly in his cheek at the time,!
"Trav'lin' Light" is a 1942 song composed by Trummy Young and Jimmy Mundy with lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
Whereas Bromberg wouldn't give a damn where it came from and he can make gold out of base metal anyway.
Written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett.
yes a bit of musical snobbery dont you think
Thanks for this rarity! These lads toured together in 74? Did not know. Any more from this line-up?
I find it hard to believe he knew all the lyrics but didn't know who recorded it!
This legendary song is also done by HERMAN'S HERMITS.
That has no meaning. I was just stating a fact. Maybe you were trying to say that you don't know this version. Anyway, both versions are excellent.
Again, that has no meaning. Too bad I can't tell what you are trying to say.
happy
Boom
Good look
Traveling light was on a herman hermits album.i think but not surre hermans hermits on tour.i saw donovan at beatlefest,.with kelly his green guitar,told many stories.he san guinevere of the royal house of athens.
Billie Holliday sang this song. Even before Sir Cliff. 2 songs that I prefer are by J.JCale, and Tindersticks(Scottish connection)
there's a good version by the Deighton Family.
Different song!
JJ Cale wrote a song called Travelin' Light. Leonard Cohen wrote another.
I never knew Bromberg played lap-style. This was just a bit after he played flattop on Mike Auldridge's first record
plus fiddle, many styles of acoustic and electric guitar, pedal steel guitar and dobro
@@monoped8437 Bromberg plays it all
Don should go to Nashville and give us a C&W Album. Just a full album of CnW classics.
Johnny and The International Scrotums first recorded this in Surbiton, circa 1950. I think Lance Crusty-Smegma was playing bass back then.
I don’t know how Donovan ended up in Nashville. Scottish folk singer. The worse thing you can do is Nashville. Grand ole opera CULT.
song at 0:54
A very nice version. Surprised he didn't know it was a Cliff Richard hit a few years back. Even I knew it and am not a fan.