The following year, Hallmark assembled a second compilation titled Colours. Even with a compilation already on the market, Pye subsidiary Golden Hour Records released a compilation of the same recordings as Golden Hour of Donovan in the United Kingdom within the same year. Catch the Wind First release by Donovan (March 12, 1965) sort by date sort by language Adaptations An adaptation is a musical work which uses most of the music or lyrics of another musical work.
Hallmark titled the first compilation Catch the Wind and released it in 1971. In 1971, Hallmark Records gained the rights to Donovan's 1965 Pye Records recordings. This 1971 release bears little resemblance to the 1965 version of What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid released as Catch the Wind in the United States. It was released in the United Kingdom ( Hallmark Records HMA 200) in 1971 and did not chart.
They were actually even more commercially successful than his “Catch the Wind.”īut for me, when I think of Donovan, it’s all about “Catch the Wind,” a song of simple longing.Īh, but I may as well try and catch the windĪnd everywhere I’d look your eyes I’d find “Sunshine Superman” and “Mellow Yellow” were Donovan songs from this period. Flower power music was characterized, in its lyrics, by passive resistance, non-violence, and the use of drugs for enlightenment. But none of them capture the innocence, sincerity and simplicity of Donovan’s own version, in which his guitar and harmonica perfectly complement his gentle voice.Īs the 60’s progressed, Donovan abandoned his roots for what became known as “flower power” music. The song has been covered by many great artists, in dozens of enchanting renditions. “Catch the Wind” was Donovan’s first hit single and it did very well in both the British and American charts. Epic Records could not obtain the right to release the original recordings of these two songs, so Donovan recorded new versions in May 1968 with a full. Dylan and Woody Guthrie were his primary influences at the outset of his career-when he appeared as a 20th century troubadour. Lastly, Donovan's Greatest Hits contains re-recordings of 'Catch the Wind' and 'Colours' with Big Jim Sullivan playing guitar, John Paul Jones on bass and keyboards and Clem Cattini on drums. I already had the habit of playing songs that I liked dozens of times in a row, and on this particular afternoon, it was Donovan’s “Catch the Wind.”ĭonovan Leitch was a Scottish folk-singer often compared in those years to Bob Dylan, although he would not have-or aim for-the societal impact that Dylan had. I remember a particular rainy spring Sunday afternoon when I was thirteen and I was all alone in the house. If it has not become apparent yet, my connection to pop music was substantial in my teenage years, which occurred in the 60’s.
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