If somehow you missed Donovan in your musical journeys...

[onehandle]

...you must go and make up for this.

His catalog is on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Prime, Google whatever, and more... Not to mention on YouTube.

He played with the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Jeff Beck. Members of Led Zeppelin made up much of his studio band.

Donovan is simply amazing.

Go. Now.

[oberliner]

1. Have you heard the 1969 version of that song?

It shows how much he changed his personae in just a few years:

[onehandle]

2. Yes. He has re-recorded much of his catalog over the years for one reason or another.

I suspect he signed some bad contracts as a kid that cost him dearly.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Season Of The Witch

Is one of my favorite songs! He's one of what my husband calls - your oddball artists! These musicians / bands that I love to listen to but everyone else ignores until their songs come on the radio. Think Donovan, ELO, Ricki Lee Jones, John Waite . . .

[livetohike]

5. One of my favorites too.

😊

[NanceGreggs]

4. I was a BIG fan back in the 'sixties.

I saw him live in 1975, or maybe '76, and he did not disappoint.

He was truly unique in his writing style, and had an almost ethereal quality when he performed.

Thanks for posting.

[JustAnotherGen]

6. I'm very jealous! N/t

[NanceGreggs]

10. And you should be - LOL!

It was a wonderful night.

My then-husband was the A&R Director for CBS/Epic records here in Toronto at the time, and we - along with friends who worked at the label as well - were treated to "best seats in the house" at Donovan's concert in nearby Hamilton Place.

As the wife of a record label big-wig, I was able to see many CBS artists in concert in those days. But seeing Donovan live was the icing on an already substantial cake.

The stage set and lighting was absolute perfection - adding to an almost other-worldly atmosphere.

That concert was almost forty years ago - and I still hold its memory in my heart.

[onehandle]

7. Lucky.

I missed him in the 70s. He doesn't often come to the states, but if he does, I swear we will see him.

A few weeks ago we saw Gordon Lightfoot. There are a number of artists from a certain era I am trying to see before they pass on.

[NanceGreggs]

14. I AM lucky.

My first husband was a record producer and, after we split up, I worked in the music biz myself as a writer for a music industry magazine.

Imagine being 28 years old, and your workday consists of interviewing Cheap Trick in their heyday, or spending an afternoon with Tim Curry, then having a backstage pass to whatever concert was in town that night.

I was soooo fortunate. I got to meet everyone in those days - and actually got paid for doing so.

When I first moved in with the man who became my first husband in 1970, our first house-guest was Bo Diddley, who stayed with us for two weeks while my husband produced an album with him. A few months later, my husband arranged a surprise birthday party for me - and one of the guests I opened the door for that night said, "I heard my friend, Bob, has a new lady in his life, and I wanted to meet you." All I could stammer was, "But you're BEN E. KING!!!"

I have lived a charmed life in so many respects. I have met so many artists who I admired, so many musicians who literally owned the radio airwaves as I was growing up.

Lucky? Yes, I was, beyond all imagining.

[6chars]

8. Sutras!!!

maybe those exclamation points are oxymoronic, but the album rocks, well, not exactly, but it's amazing and moving.

[6chars]

32. Self k&r. This little known Donovan album is beautiful

http://www.amazon.com/Sutras/dp/B000002MAV/

Produced by Rick Rubin in 1996, it is a gift ad a surprise.

[zeemike]

9. Nope I did not miss him.

Because I am just wild about saffron...

[Mr.Bill]

16. The guy whispering "quite rightly"

is Paul McCartney.

[zeemike]

17. I did not know that.

Or are you just pulling my leg?

[Mr.Bill]

22. No, I'm serious.

I read that several times over the years. The story was Paul dropped by to visit Donovan at the studio and jumped into the session.

I just googled it (never have before) and here is what Wikipedia says. Different story than what I read years ago.

[zeemike]

24. Well that is interesting.

I never paid much attention to Rock and Roll trivia but I am glad someone did.

[thucythucy]

21. And Donovan taught John Lennon

how to finger pick a guitar while they were all in India studying meditation with the Maharishi. Up until then Lennon had always used a pick. Lennon was so psyched to learn this he immediately wrote "Dear Prudence" "Julia" and "Look at Me" in that style. The first two were recorded for the White Album, the third came out on Lennon's first post-Beatles album.

Donovan also sings in the chorus of "Yellow Submarine" and was in the room when McCartney wrote 'Blackbird." He and the various Beatles were all good chums.

[passiveporcupine]

29. I sing this song to my yellow lab all the time

Love love love Donovan.

[redwitch]

11. I love Donovan and this is my favorite song.

Oh wait, Atlantis is my favorite. No wait, Hurdy Gurdy Man. Oh damnit. I love them all.

[onehandle]

12. Difficult to name a favorite.

Lately I have been listening to Epistle to Dippy and/or There Is a Mountain when I need a mental boost.

[passiveporcupine]

30. I dare anyone to listen to "There's a Mountain" without dancing

I cannot hold still to this song.

[awoke_in_2003]

34. I'm with Hurdy Gurdy Man

There is something very different about that song.

[kcdoug1]

13. Another classic that Donovan was a big part of...

[onehandle]

15. Yep. I remember that. nt

[LiberalElite]

18. Donovan appeared at the Beatles 50th Anniversary

Fest for Beatles Fans in NYC (and also possibly Chicago and L.A.) last year. While I wasn't a particular fan of his,(all I recall is Sunshine Superman) I'm sure he was gratified by the very enthusiastic audience. He spoke about his experiences back in the day in the '60s with the Beatles and performed Atlantis and his rapt fans sang along. Good for him after all these years.

[Rose Siding]

19. Hurdy Gurdy Man was used in an opening of Duchovny's Aquarius

and the mood was so totally set. That's all I really enjoyed about the series- that familiar, spooky, mellow-manic vibe of the late 60's

[villager]

28. We must have been posting at the same time....

...though mine was about "Zodiac," which I can see "stamped" the song a certain way, if it was also used in "Aquarius..."

[Doctor_J]

20. his son looks so much like him it's frightening

I personally like Colours

[Glorfindel]

23. Me, too. It's a great song

Its use in the movie "The Rules of Attraction" is absolutely perfect.

[zebonaut]

25. Liberals can appreciate good music while Conservatives go for the Weavers

[villager]

27. The Weavers!? They were all Commies!

Heck, they had Pete Seeger...!

[villager]

26. Also thought "Hurdy-Gurdy Man" was used rather brilliantly by David Fincher in "Zodiac"

Every since then, the song seems to have disturbing resonances, every time I hear it...

[SoapBox]

31. Jennifer Juniper...

https://m.

And Sunshine Superman...Universal Soldier too.

[Joe Chi Minh]

33. Shows what a poisonous effect corporatism has had on popular culture.

Where are the successors of the Greats of the sixties, now? There are none, so we have to wheel out wizened, grey-haired, old septuagenarians and octagenarians (such as my good self, though bereft of their talent).

How long before they'll have to bring down the curtain early so their zimmers/walking-frames can be brought on stage for them?

[awoke_in_2003]

35. Jimmy Page is 71

That blows my mind.

[Joe Chi Minh]

36. Yes. You don't begrudge it them, but it's sad from the

public's viewpoint that it should have come to this. Heck, even the names of the groups were often wonderfully quirk.. the Loving Spoonfuls. Even now there seems a gap in my life that I never saw Mr Tambourine man as a nipper. He sounds a most plausible character of childhood folklore, so to speak.