Donovan: A Tale of Two Albums｜Vinyl Monday
Tread so light so not to touch the grass, breathe the air so slowly as you pass.
Welcome (or welcome back) to Vinyl Monday! This is my weekly series where I give the who/what/when/where/why and how I feel about classic albums in my collection. My thoughts on Donovan’s 5th and 6th studio albums but also just 5th studio album, A Gift From a Flower to a Garden; comprised of Wear Your Love Like Heaven and For Little Ones (all released 1967) Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday and vintage fashion!
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Many thanks to Karl Ferris for the photos and stories he contributed this week! Watch his Wear Your Love Like Heaven film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLhaBu3BpJM
Timestamps:
intro – 0:00
art/packaging/personnel – 1:41
busted! – 7:05
donny’s redemption tour – 10:55
a tale of 2 albums – 13:45
track listing/release – 14:47
A Gift, in context – 19:53
my thoughts – 21:45
thanks for watching! – 36:18
Music:
Intro Music: Yeah Yeah Yeah (Long) by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/…) Artist: http://audionautix.com/
Outtro Music: Ticket To Nowhere Man by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/…) Artist: http://audionautix.com/
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@abigaildevoe
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
what’s your favorite donovan song? comment below!
@toddparke8535
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
To me they always had it backwards as I think Wear Your Love Like Heaven seems more for little ones.
@cradio52
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
Just in time for the big fancy $300 reissue! 😅
@JaunGuy327
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
I find Barbajagal in record stores all the time
@VictorRamirez-em4tv
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
I saw Donovan in 1976, he opened for Yes on their Going for the One tour. He did a short “greatest hits” set. Prior to seeing him, I mostly knew him for his vocals on Alice Cooper’s Billion $ Babies. Donovan is not quite my taste, but his set was a fun (very fun) review of his hits. He was a pleasant surprise.
@jimmymelendez1836
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
"You're a little late, buddy. Dogs was last week."😂
@c.a.t.732
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
I have a particular fondness regarding "For Little Ones" as I was teaching myself to play the guitar at the time I got that album, and there were a number of songs on it one could play knowing only a few chords and having a basic facility with fingerpicking. Wonderful songs that started me on a musical journey.
@retromusings
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
I find the cover art to be a big attraction when I buy vinyl. So interesting to hear the backstory behind those Donovan album covers. Great to hear who was responsible for that fantastic colour effect on those photos and the locations of where they were taken. Fantastic Vinyl Monday video!
@Frank_42
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
My box copy is held together with tape and memories. I also have the same turntable as yours minus the flower stickers. I prefer my retro suitcase player in my bedroom that I have hooked into a more portable retro thing and tube pre-amp. My living room setup is too complicated such that I don't bother.
@luisacata04
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
Jack in one of my favourites 6:52
@jamesmanon3000
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
Thank you.I've been on the Donovan journey since 1973.I was 15 and quickly bought any albums and singles I came to find.I had rhe Gift From a Flowe book cover on my school book.I was so excited the day I bought this album in early 1974.I read that Donovan sang through a banjo on Song of the Naturalist Wife.Your most interesting video yet.
@malcshone4409
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
Mellow yellow. It’s evocative of a space in time. Also, there’s a connection to Led Zeppelin ( and I don’t mean The Lemon Song !).
@alexvince461
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
30:24 The childrens album is. Unparalleled and consistently brilliant, I listened to the other album probably once, it's all terrible apart from, obviously, wear your love like heaven
@newtronix
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
Donovan's a bit like light entertainment really. Why don't you do a Spacemen 3 album! Maybe Playing With Fire?
@stephensorensen4477
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
I love Wear Your Love Like Heaven, Jennifer Juniper, Sunshine Superman and all of Hurdy Gurdy Man but my favorite is Celeste
@PaulKington
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
Donovan did a duet of "there is a mountain" with Bobbie Gentry on her show, well worth seeing..
@PaulKington
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
Lalena is my fave Donovan song, also the song of the wandering aengus ….
@moxie96
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
If you haven’t already (but please direct me if you did) please review the fool lp if you can get or got a copy of it
@moxie96
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
The crying baby at the start of that song was as I last heard was Donovan jr and I think he added that snippet from off of a portable reel to reel tape recorder and spliced another part from himself in a very echoey location (ie a bathroom) but you could be more correct that he could be singing with the small recorders’ mic into his guitars’ sound hole.
I’m very glad I had seen him live once in 2016 at the SF regency theatre
@BruceFrazer100
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
"Gift" is one of my faves. I think I paid $9 back in 68. I was 12 . The best part was the portfolio of lyrics and drawings by the minstrel himself
Every song is amazing . As a matter of fact I will play it now. Thanks for the stories.
@chrisdelisle3954
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
Now, I've only listened to the album once, but I have to agree that the 2nd record is…somewhat infinitely better than the 1st record.
@grahamherries
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
Get thy bearings is ACE!!!
@dancingbear86
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
If you like Donovan and the folk and folk-rock singer genre from that era, check out the 60's/70's recordings of some lesser-known but great British artists/singer-songwriters: Tim Hollier, Mark Brierley, Duncan Browne, Meic Stevens, David McWilliams, Robin Scott, and Dave Cartwright- to name a few and of course Nick Drake. They all made some fab recordings.
@dancingbear86
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
Another fabulous video! I have been a Donovan fan for years. One of my favorite artists. My older sister had a vinyl version of the second album. I remeber listening to it when I was a little kid and really got into Donovan's music. I think I have an original vinyl version somewhere with the lyric inserts. Hope I still have it. I found it back years ago, but an't remember where I got it. Also have a 1990's mono CD version of "A Gift…" on the BGO label and a early 200'0's UK import version on EMI. Neither album has any bonus material. The EMI version doesn't have much of the original album art, likely because of some licensing issue. Both albums are great, but my favorite is the second album.
@DouglasMcLaughlin-kq7hk
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
"Season of the Witch" and "Intergalactic Laxative"… Very wide swing
@estoote
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
Nice that you conversed with the photographer about the cover art! I thought the cover photo of Wear Your Love Like Heaven was just beautiful, but I'd already got the box set. Very unusual that they put two so distinctly different collections into one box. Donovan was always a great favorite of mine. "Tale of the Enchanted Gypsy" is probably the tune from this box that most often runs through my head.
@matthewbrown7572
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
My favorite Donovan album. The ultimate flower power album ,( and I mean that in the best possible way ).
@spiritof6663
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
"For Little Ones" is a stunner. Magically enchanted from start to finish. Just like you, I found it funny that it was called the "children's" album of this set because it feels far more adult to me–serious, haunting, and gentle in a very meditative way–than the "adult" album which contains some fairly twee material on it like "Skip Along Sam" and "Little Boy In Corduroy" (not that there aren't incredible songs there as well like "There Was A Time" and "Someone's Singing"). But "For Little Ones", just taken as its own album, is one of my top 10 favorites of all time.
@josephhowington335
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
Oh, yeah…
The Fat Angel
@johnchurchill6523
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
My fave album of his is HGM and "Jennifer Juniper" is pure musical joy. Early T -Rex reminds me a lot of Donovan.
@dtchinacat3973
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
I have the original Box Set, love it!😻
@amyhermann6398
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
Hurdy Gurdy Man – love the feel of the song its like being transported back to the 60s if only for a few minutes.
@LANCSKID
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
Abigail, have you been at that patchouli oil again? Mmm … lovely!
@Ozznando
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
one of the best 10 albums of the sixties!
@pljms
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
'Sunny Goodge Street' is a personal favourite Donovan track of mine because of a young lady who I used to visit there. 'Sunshine Superman' is by far and away my favourite album of his while 'What's Bin Did And What's Bin Hid' is one of my favourite album titles by anyone.
@aliceonthemoon1587
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
Can you cover Tim Buckley?
@aliceonthemoon1587
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
I saw Donovan in 1977. Cosmic Wheels
@guillermomiyares5549
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
I renmember saving money for about 2-3 months just to buy gift from a flower to a garden . Was intrigued by the cover
@Hyakudeaths
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
I LOVE Donovan
@kevindeforest6489
October 13, 2024 at 5:23 am
This episode hits because you are clearly a Donovan mega fan. Thanks, the episode has me re-evaluating Donavan as I basically saw him as.a "lesser" UK version of Bob Dylan.