Catch the Wind is a compilation album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 from Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Donovan

Donovan

Donovan Donovan Donovan (born Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music...

. It was released in Australia on November 28, 2000 (Castle 61191).

History

Although Castle Records had just released all of Donovan's 1965 Pye Records

Pye Records

Pye Records was a British record label. In its first incarnation, perhaps Pye's best known artists were Lonnie Donegan , Petula Clark , The Searchers , The Kinks , Sandie Shaw and Brotherhood of Man...

 recordings as Summer Day Reflection Songs

Summer Day Reflection Songs

Summer Day Reflection Songs is a compilation album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released on April 25, 2000.-History:In 2000, Castle Records released every song of Donovan's 1965 Pye Records recordings on one collection...

earlier in 2000, they issued a compilation of the best known songs titled Catch the Wind in Australia anyway.

Track listing

All tracks by Donovan Leitch, except where noted.

1. "Catch the Wind
   Catch the Wind (song)
   "Catch the Wind" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released as a single in the United Kingdom on March 12, 1965 through Pye Records and a few months later in the United States through Hickory Records...
   
   " – 2:56
2. "To Try for the Sun
   To Try for the Sun
   "To Try for the Sun" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. The "To Try for the Sun" single was backed with "Turquoise" and released in the United States in January 1966 through Hickory Records ....
   
   " – 3:38
3. "Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)" – 3:10
4. "Colours" – 2:45
5. "Josie
   Josie (Donovan song)
   "Josie" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. The "Josie" single was backed with a cover of "The Little Tin Soldier" by Shawn Phillips and released in the United Kingdom on 18 February 1966 through Pye Records ....
   
   " – 3:27
6. "Universal Soldier
   Universal Soldier (song)
   "Universal Soldier" is a song written and recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. The song was originally released on Sainte-Marie's debut album It's My Way! in 1964. "Universal Soldier" was not a popular hit at the time of its release, but it did garner attention within the...
   
   " (Buffy Sainte-Marie
   Buffy Sainte-Marie
   Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC is a Canadian Cree singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire includes...
   
   ) – 2:12
7. "Candy Man" – 3:26
8. "The Summer Day Reflection Song" – 2:12
9. "Donna Donna
   Donna Donna
   Donna Donna is a Yiddish theater song about a calf being led to slaughter. The song's title is a variant on Adonai, a Jewish name for God.-History:...
   
   " (Aaron Zeitlin
   Aaron Zeitlin
   Aaron Zeitlin , the son of the famous Jewish writer Hillel Zeitlin and Esther Kunin, authored several books on Yiddish literature, Poetry and Parapsychology.-Biography:...
   
   , Sholom Secunda, Arthur S Kevess, Teddi Schwartz) – 2:55
10. "Why Do You Treat Me Like You Do?" – 2:55
11. "Gold Watch Blues" (Mike Softley) – 2:32
12. "Jersey Thursday" – 2:13
13. "The Ballad of a Crystal Man" – 3:15
14. "Turquoise
    Turquoise (song)
    "Turquoise" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. The "Turquoise" single was released in the United Kingdom on October 30, 1965 through Pye Records and charted to #30. The "Turquoise" single was backed with "Hey Gyp " and only released in the United Kingdom...
    
    " – 3:28
15. "To Sing for You" – 2:42
16. "Sunny Goodge Street" – 2:56

External links

• Catch The Wind (2000) - Donovan Unofficial Site