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

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 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 States (Del Rack DRZ 921) in 1991.

History

In the early 1990s, audio engineer Steve Hoffman digitally remixed and remastered ten songs from the original master tapes 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 songs were released as a compilation album entitled Colours, but bore no resemblance to the previous albums of the same title.

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...
   
   " – 2:53
2. "Colours" – 2:43
3. "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...
   
   ) – 2:11
4. "Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)" – 3:06
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 ....
   
   " – 3:24
6. "Jersey Thursday" – 2:11
7. "Belated Forgiveness Plea" – 2:54
8. "Sunny Goodge Street" – 2:54
9. "Ballad of Geraldine" – 4:40
10. "The 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...
    
    ) – 2:58

External links

• Colours (1991) - Donovan Unofficial Site