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Donovan Phillips Leitch (born 10 May 1946), known mononymously as Donovan, is a Scottish musician, songwriter and record producer.He emerged from the British folk scene in early 1965, and subsequently scored multiple international hit singles and albums during the late 1960s.
Donovan My Way (Vic Lewis and his Orchestra) (1968) The Les Williams Orchestra Plays the Songs of Donovan (1968) The Golden Songs of Donovan Johnny Arthy Orchestra; Island of Circles (1992) A Gift from a Garden to a Flower: A Tribute to Donovan (2002) Gazing With Tranquility: A Tribute to Donovan (2015))
Donovan's Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United States in January 1969 on Epic Records and in the United Kingdom in March 1969 on Pye Records. Donovan's Greatest Hits peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, and has been certified platinum by the RIAA. [2]
Topics about Donovan songs in general should be placed in relevant topic categories Pages in category "Donovan songs" The following 30 pages are in this category, out ...
"Hurdy Gurdy Man" is a song by the Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was recorded in April 1968 and released the following month as a single. The song gave its name to the album The Hurdy Gurdy Man, which was released in October of that year in the United States.
Donovan had originally written the song as a throwaway sing-a-long for private parties, and was surprised when producer Mickie Most chose it to be the follow up single to "Sunshine Superman". [11] The song was arranged by session musician John Paul Jones and became one of his first to achieve international success.
"Colours" is a song written and recorded by British singer-songwriter Donovan for his second album, Fairytale. [2] "Colours" was released as a single in the United Kingdom on 28 May 1965 through Pye Records (Pye 7N 15866) and a few months later in the United States through Hickory Records (Hickory 45-1324).
In the late 1980s, Epic Records and EMI Records began releasing Donovan's music on compact disc for the first time. In the United Kingdom, EMI added several tracks to Donovan's Greatest Hits, shuffled the track order and added several songs from Barabajagal as well as four b-sides that had not yet been released on an album.