Colours 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 the United Kingdom (PRT Records PYL 7004 [LP]/PYC 7004 [CD]) in October 1987 and did not chart. This 1987 release bears little resemblance to the 1972 version of Colours

Colours (1972 album)

Colours is a compilation album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United Kingdom in June 1972 and did not chart.-History:In 1971, Donovan's 1965 Pye Records recordings were sold to Hallmark Records...

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History

In 1987, PRT Records assembled and released a thirty track compilation 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. The album was released on both vinyl and compact disc and marks the first compact disc release of many of the songs.

Disc one

1. "Josie"
2. "Catch the Wind"
3. "Remember the Alamo" (Jane Bowers
   Jane Bowers
   Jane Bowers was a Texas folk singer and songwriter best known for her composition "Remember the Alamo". Many of her songs were primarily recorded by The Kingston Trio.-Selected songs:...
   
   )
4. "Cuttin' Out"
5. "Car Car" (Woody Guthrie
   Woody Guthrie
   Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...
   
   )
6. "Keep on Truckin'" (traditional; arranged by Donovan Leitch)
7. "Gold Watch Blues" (Mick Softley
   Mick Softley
   Michael 'Mick' Softley is a British singer/songwriter and guitarist. A figurehead during the British folk scene, Softley set up his own folk club, released three albums and has been known to work with Mac MacLeod , Donovan Leitch and Maddy Prior...
   
   )
8. "To Sing for You"
9. "You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond" (traditional; arranged by Donovan Leitch)
10. "Tangerine Puppet"
11. "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)
12. "Ramblin' Boy"
13. "Colours"
14. "To Try for the Sun"
15. "Sunny Goodge Street"

Disc two

1. "Oh Deed I Do" (Bert Jansch
   Bert Jansch
   Herbert "Bert" Jansch was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s, as an acoustic guitarist, as well as a singer-songwriter...
   
   )
2. "Circus of Sour"
3. "Summer Day Reflection Song"
4. "Candy Man" (traditional; arranged by Donovan Leitch)
5. "Jersey Thursday"
6. "Belated Forgiveness Plea"
7. "Ballad of a Crystal Man"
8. "Little Tin Soldier" (Shawn Phillips
   Shawn Phillips
   Shawn Phillips is a folk-rock musician, primarily influential in the 1960s and 1970s.Phillips has recorded twenty albums and worked with musicians including Donovan, Paul Buckmaster, J. Peter Robinson, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Bernie Taupin, and many others...
   
   )
9. "Ballad of Geraldine"
10. "Universal Soldier" (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...
    
    )
11. "Do You Hear Me Now?" (Bert Jansch)
12. "The War Drags On" (Mick Softley
    Mick Softley
    Michael 'Mick' Softley is a British singer/songwriter and guitarist. A figurehead during the British folk scene, Softley set up his own folk club, released three albums and has been known to work with Mac MacLeod , Donovan Leitch and Maddy Prior...
    
    )
13. "Turquoise"
14. "Why Do You Treat Me Like You Do?"
15. "Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)"

External links

• Colours (1987) - Donovan Unofficial Site