Very Best of Donovan [Import]

Donovan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 10, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Epic Europe
• ASIN: B000006YAP
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #250,268 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sunshine Superman

2. Catch the Wind

3. Atlantis

4. Hurdy Gurdy Man

5. Lalena

6. Maria Magenta

7. Mellow Yellow

8. There is a Mountain

9. Epistle To Dippy

10. Season of the Witch

11. Jennifer Juniper

12. Colours

13. Riki Tiki Tavi

14. Wear Your Love Like Heaven

15. Barabajagal

16. Guinevere

17. Sailing Homeward

18. Celia of the Seals

19. Celeste

20. Rock and Roll Soldier

Editorial Reviews

Includes all of the Scottish folk rocker's biggest smashes. Features 'Mellow Yellow', 'Sunshine Superman', 'Hurdy Gurdy Man', 'Jennifer Juniper', 'Riki Tiki Tavi' & much more.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best Donovan's album I've heard, June 20, 2002

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Antonio Ismael OLEA GONZALEZ "Ismael Olea" (España) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Very Best of Donovan (Audio CD)

I've got some Donovan's albums in cheap formats. This is the best one I've heard. These are studio recordings and with a delicious psycodelic band. No solo acoustic recordings.

5.0 out of 5 stars Still Another Pretty Good Donovan Compilation, December 21, 2011

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Annette Reese (Middletown, RI) - See all my reviews
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The recordings of "Catch the Wind" and "Colours" are the rerecorded versions done for the original "Greatest Hits" record that came out oh so long ago on Epic Records and I really like the way "Wind" seques into "Atlantis." They're both long and strangely enough seem kind of similar here, almost like they were made to be together. "Maria Magenta" from the "Cosmic Wheels" record has always been a favorite of mine and it just seems to work well with this other stuff. I don't know if I'd have put "Where Your Love Like Heaven" here, but still it was kind of a Donovan hit. "Rock and Roll Souljer (correct title)" though not a big event for Donovan, has always been one of my favorites and I really like that the album closes with it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Donovan collection, September 30, 2011

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Catherine Goltz "a music lover" (Washington DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Very Best of Donovan (Audio CD)

Originally issued in 1988 this was the first major collection of Donovan songs in a decade. Many of his previous collections had been cheap compilations of his 1965 work. His previous work could often not be done as collections due to legal problems he had with Epic Records in the sixties. Due to that he had to re-record "Catch the Wind" and "Colours" for the original issue of Donovan's Greatest Hits It wasn't until the Troubadour box set and the 1999 reissue of Greatest Hits that the original Pye/Hickory versions were restored. This also includes all his greatest work as well as gems from his later albums like "Sailing Homeward", "Celia of the Seals" and "Rock and Roll Souljer" (named misspelled on CD).