![]() "All the difficulties in the outer world begin in the inner world. It involves ukuleles, meditation and his old friends Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. The folk singer Donovan has a secret plan for world peace. AFP PHOTO / FRANCOIS GUILLOTFRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP/Getty Images FRANCOIS GUILLOT/Staff Show More Show Less 5 of6 TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY FIACHRA GIBBONS British singer Donavan poses, on Main Paris. AFP PHOTO / FRANCOIS GUILLOTFRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP/Getty Images FRANCOIS GUILLOT/Staff Show More Show Less 4 of6 (FILES) This file photo taken on Mashows British singer Donavan posing on Main Paris. DON HUSTEIN/SANDY SPEISER Show More Show Less 3 of6 TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY FIACHRA GIBBONS (FILES) This file photo taken on Mashows British singer Donavan posing, on Main Paris. Robert Dear/STF Show More Show Less 2 of6 (04/1999) DONOVAN. Rear left, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Ringo Starr and John Lennon, center, Cilla Black and Paul McCartney. ![]() Front, from left: George Alexander, Pete Swettenham, Geoffrey Swettenham and John Perry of Grapefruit. Roger McGuinn pointed that out to me.1 of6 In 1968, Donovan, rear and second from left, mingled with other big acts. The melody is very similar to an early Dylan melody. It is not naive in any way it is very knowing. and even though, if I say so myself, as a first song it is quite amazing. ![]() and actually is about Linda, although I didn’t meet her until a year later. It is about a relationship that one can’t have. Of “Catch The Wind,” he said this:ĭONOVAN: As a first song, and it was my first single, it is very well-crafted. In 1988, Donovan was in Marina Del Rey, where we spoke about songs and songwriting. Since then there have been hundreds of recordings of it by a wide spectrum of artists, including Glen Campbell, Cher, Buck Owens, Chet Atkins, Eartha Kitt, We Five, The Lettermen, Flatt & Scruggs, Dottie West, Joan Baez, Jimmy LeFave and Rickie Lee Jones. Back in 1965 it started being covered immediately, first by Johnny Rivers and later that same year Paul Revere & The Raiders. “Catch The Wind” has become a modern standard. Both delicate and dynamic, like all his hits, it’s the recording included on his most popular album ever, the 1968 compilation Donovan’s Greatest Hits, for which he also re-recorded his song “Colours.” The other songs were the original singles, including “Atlantis,” “Hurdy Gurdy Man,” “Sunshine Superman,” “Mellow Yellow” and “Jennifer Juniper.” But then the drums kick in with a big fill, and we’ve gone from 1965 to 1968 – from folk to folk-rock. It begins like the original, just voice and guitar. Three years after recording it, with Mickey Most producing, Donovan made a full band version, which is almost twice as long. It became his first of many hits, reaching #4 in the UK, and #17 in the U.S.īut that record, at only 2:21 in length, is not the one most people know. In gentle waltz-time, the original single was sparse, just voice, guitar and strings. It was also his first record, released in the Spring of 1965 as a single only. “Catch The Wind” was the first song Donovan ever wrote. Donovan, “Catch The Wind,” 1965, the original single.
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