Summer Day Reflection Songs 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 on April 25, 2000.

History

In 2000, Castle Records released every song 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 on one collection. Summer Day Reflection Songs features all of the tracks from What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid

What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid

What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid is the debut album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United Kingdom four days after Donovan's 19th birthday on 14 May 1965, through Pye Records . Terry Kennedy, Peter Eden, and Geoff Stephens produced the album...

and Fairytale

Fairytale (album)

Fairytale is the second album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was first released in the United Kingdom on October 22, 1965 through Pye Records . The U.S. version of Fairytale was released by Hickory Records in November 1965 with a slightly different set of songs...

, as well as all of Donovan's Pye single recordings, B-sides and EP tracks. Castle also included "Every Man Has His Chain", a song that had only previously appeared as a track on a French EP dating from 1965.

Disc one

1. "Catch the Wind" – 2:21
2. "Why Do You Treat Me Like You Do" – 2:57
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 ....
   
   " – 3:29
4. "Catch the Wind" – 2:57
5. "Remember the Alamo
   Remember the Alamo (song)
   "Remember the Alamo" is a song written by Texan folk singer and songwriter Jane Bowers. Bowers details the last days of 180 soldiers at the Alamo and names several famous figures who fought at the Alamo, including Mexican general Santa Anna and Texans: Jim Bowie, William Barrett Travis and Davy...
   
   " (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:...
   
   ) – 3:06
6. "Cuttin' Out" – 2:21
7. "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...
   
   ) – 1:33
8. "Keep On Truckin'" (traditional; arranged by Donovan Leitch) – 1:52
9. "Goldwatch 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...
   
   ) – 2:34
10. "To Sing for You" – 2:46
11. "You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond" (traditional; arranged by Donovan Leitch) – 4:05
12. "Tangerine Puppet" – 1:53
13. "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) – 2:58
14. "Ramblin' Boy" – 2:36
15. "Every Man Has His Chain" – 2:14
16. "Colours" – 2:44

Disc two

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...
   
   ) – 2:16
2. "The Ballad of a Crystal Man" – 3:19
3. "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...
   
   ) – 3:44
4. "Do You Hear Me Now" (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...
   
   ) – 1:51
5. "Colours" – 2:47
6. "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 ....
   
   " – 3:41
7. "Sunny Goodge Street" – 2:58
8. "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...
   
   ) – 2:10
9. "Circus of Sour" (Paul Bernath) – 1:54
10. "Summer Day Reflection Song" – 2:10
11. "Candy Man" (traditional; arranged by Donovan Leitch) – 3:30
12. "Jersey Thursday" – 2:17
13. "Belated Forgiveness Plea" – 2:59
14. "The Ballad of a Crystal Man" – 3:54
15. "The Little Tin Soldier" (Shawn Phillips) – 3:03
16. "Ballad of Geraldine" – 4:43
17. "Turquoise" – 3:32
18. "Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)" – 3:09

External links

• Summer Day Reflection Songs - Donovan Unofficial Site