Golden Hour of Donovan 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 (Golden Hour Records GH 506) in November 1971 and did not chart.

History

By 1971, 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...

 transferred the rights to release Donovan's 1965 recordings from their budget label Marble Arch Records to a second subsidiary budget label Golden Hour Records. Golden Hour assembled Golden Hour of Donovan for the British market. The album featured detailed artwork of a jigsaw puzzle

Jigsaw puzzle

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 with Donovan's likeness. Later in 1995 it was released by Castle Communications Limited with a photo of Donovan as the artwork.

Side one

1. "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. "Sunny Goodge Street"
3. "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 ....
   
   "
4. "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...
   
   )
5. "To Sing For You"
6. "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...
   
   )
7. "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)
8. "Ballad Of Geraldine"
9. "Colours"
10. "The War Drags On" (Mick Softley)

Side two

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. "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. "Candy Man" (traditional; arranged by Donovan Leitch)
4. "Jersey Thursday"
5. "Why Do You Treat Me Like You Do?"
6. "Ballad Of The Crystal Man"
7. "Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)"
8. "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:...
   
   )
9. "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 ....
   
   "
10. "Belated Forgiveness Plea"

External links

• Golden Hour Of Donovan - Donovan Unofficial Site