Wonderful Music 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 by Remember Records (1993) and in Portugal

Portugal

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 (WMO 90323) in 1996.

History

In 1993, budget label Remember Records issued a 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 and selections from his 1984 album Lady of the Stars

Lady of the Stars

Lady of the Stars is the seventeenth studio album, and nineteenth album overall, from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the UK and the US in January 1984.-History:...

. Three years later, Portuguese label Wonderful Music of issued exactly the same compilation as Wonderful Music of Donovan but cut the last two tracks ("Boy for Every Girl" and "Till I See You Again").

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...
   
   " – 3:01
2. "Colours" – 3:04
3. "Sunshine Superman" – 4:04
4. "Turquoise" – 3:39
5. "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...
   
   ) – 2:16
6. "Belated Forgiveness Plea" – 2:59
7. "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:...
   
   ) – 3:12
8. "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...
   
   ) – 3:42
9. "Ramblin' Boy" – 2:35
10. "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 ....
    
    " – 3:46
11. "The Ballad of a Crystal Man" – 3:18
12. "Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)" – 3:10
13. "Lady of the Stars" – 4:42
14. "Season of the Witch" – 5:22
15. "Living for the Love Light" – 3:44
16. "Every Reason" – 3:03

External links

• Wonderful Music Of Donovan - Donovan Unofficial Site