Barabajagal

The Hurdy Gurdy Man 2005 Digitally remastered re-issue features six bonus tracks 'Poor Cow', 'Lalena', 'Aye My Love', 'What A Beautiful Creature You Are' 'Colours' and 'Catch The Wind'. The album forshadows the coming discontent which eventually drove Donovan out of the music business. The title son...	Sunshine Superman 2005 Digitally remastered re-issue features seven bonus tracks 'Breezes Of Patchulie', 'Museum' (First Version), 'Superlungs' (First Version), 'The Land Of Doesn't Have To', 'Sunshine', 'Good Trip' (Demo), 'House Of Jansch' (Demo). Sunshine Superman marked the coming of psychedel...	Mellow Yellow 2005 Digitally remastered re-issue features nine bonus tracks 'Preachin' Love', 'Good Time', 'There Is A Mountain', 'Superlungs' (Second Version), 'Epistle To Dippy' (Alternative Arr), 'Sidewalk (The Observation) (Demo), 'Writer In The Sun' (Demo), 'Hampstead Incident' (Demo), 'M...	A Gift from a Flower to a Garden Originally packaged in a two-record box set with an expensively printed set of lyric sheets, A Gift was sincerely meant as a possible present for the hippie who has everything. The first album is the Wear Your Love Like Heaven album and it's a gem of mid-'60s Mickie Most-produced...	Open Road Digitally remastered reissue of the singer/songwriter's 1970 album. Includes the hit, 'Riki Tiki Tavi'. 2000 release. Digipak.
In Concert: The Complete 1967 Anaheim Show Often portrayed as the British Dylan, Donovan Leitch was in fact much more than this. As the highest profile UK folk singer at a time when most folk singers were American, Donovan's association with the summer of love made him one of the most popular singers of the 60's and he ma...	Fairytale UK expanded deluxe edition reissue of the folk-rock icon's sophomore album, originally released in 1965. 18 tracks including the hit 'Colours' & six bonus tracks, 'Universal Soldier', 'The Ballad Of A Crystal Man', 'The War Drags On', 'Do You Hear Me Now' (All from EP 'Univer...	HMS Donovan Worldwide CD debut for his 1971 EMI LP featuring 'Celia Of The Seals', 'Walrus & The Carpenter' and 'Lord Of The Reedy River'. 28 tracks total. 1997 BGO release.	Sutras Out of print in the U.S.! Import pressing of Donovan's critically successful 1996 album produced by Rick Rubin. Like Johnny Cash before him and Neil Diamond afterwards, Rubin strips away the gloss and presents Donovan at his acoustic best. 14 tracks that recall Donovan's folky be...	Donovan's Greatest Hits Greatest Hits is the budget option for those who've concluded that two discs of Donovan is a disc too many and zero is one too few. Troubadour, Sony's 1992 Donovan box set, boasts nearly three times the tracks this 15-song single-disc retrospective offers, but Greatest Hits deliv...

Barabajagal-Donovan
Wonderful album.Fun to listen to. A definite must for all donovan fans. If you haven't listened to Donovan befor, try this album.

the bonus tracks are worth the purchase
as whats previously been said, this album marks a decline in Donovan's consistency in terms of putting a whole flowing album together. Nevertheless this cd is well worth purchasing for the bonus tracks which makes one feel as if you have bought a full album's worth of unreleased material. Interestingly as well is the fact that the version of "superlungs, my supergirl" is NOT the same version that appeared on the original album. This version adds guitar parts and even ends differently with donovan chanting "hey". Its very similar however and may even be better upon comparison. The Swan (lord of the reedy river) is perhaps the most psychedelic or magical donovan song i've ever heard. This version even beating the brilliant simple version on the HMS Donovan album. If you are a hugh donovan fan already i think this should be the first remaster to start with considering there is so much unreleased material on this particular disc. The sound quality is also surprisingly great which is not always the case with remasters of 60s albums. "Where is she" sounds fantastic!

The Mickie Most Years - Part 4
"Barabajagal" was Donovan's last album to be released in the 1960's and his fifth produced by Mickie Most. Compared to his previous albums this is probably the most versatile, partly due to the fact that it was recorded during several sessions, featuring different musicians. The three hit singles "Atlantis"; "To Susan on the West Coast" and "Barabajagal" are good examples of the album's great variety. "Atlantis" is a fine folky tune with an ecstatic ending ending much like the Beatles' "Hey Jude". "To Susan on the West Coast" is an acoustic anti-war song and "Barabajagal" is an almost riff-based rocker with solid backing by Jeff Beck Group. Among the tracks I like "Happines Runs" and "Superlungs My Supergirl", but the rest are mostly sub-par tracks. The original album had a very short playing time, a little more than thirty minutes. Fortunately a lot of relevant bonus-tracks have been added to the album. Interesting to hear "Stromberg Twins", another track with backing from Jeff Beck and his band; and song that ought have been included originally. But the strongest material are found among the last seven tracks, which are just demos; but all sounding great. "Marjorie" and "Palais Girl" are really great songs that finally get a deserved release. The booklet contains the final chapter of the Mickie Most Years ( part 4, Nov. 68 to Dec. 1969 ), which is great read; and although the album is not quite up to the standards of its predecessors, it's still a quite fine album.

An okay album greatly improved by the bonus tracks
Barabajagal is the last of the four remastered Donovan cds released by EMI in 2005. The original album was definitely a mixed bag. When it's good, it's excellent. Songs like Barabajagal, Superlungs and Atlantis rank among the best rock songs of 1969, and Happiness Runs is a charming children's song. Unfortunately, most of the other album tracks are just filler. EMI seems to have solved the problem with this reissue. The addition of the bonus tracks, all previously unreleased, double the length of the album, and -- like Sanctuary's reissue of Kinda Kinks -- many of the best songs on the disk are bonus tracks. All the bonus tracks here are good, some are great, and Swan (Lord Of The Reedy River) is one of the most gorgeous songs Donovan ever recorded, which is quite saying something when you think about it. Like the rest of the albums in this series of reissues, the sound quality is excellent and the liner notes are poor.

EMI Opens the Vaults
I've always liked Donovan's "Barabajagal," right down to the Victoriana of the album's artwork. This is not his most consistent album - I really don't need to hear "I Love My Shirt" or "Happiness Runs" very often, and they embody a certain precious quality that has not worn well (and didn't sound so great in 1969). There are, however, several gems on the original set, including the double-sided hit "To Susan On the West Coast Waiting", a still-fresh, deceptively low-key anti-Vietnam song, and the grand, five-minute "Atlantis," one of Donovan's biggest US hits, recorded in L.A. with the great Jim Gordon (Derek & the Dominos) providing superb drumming. Forget the "Hey Jude" comparison, this song has a power and personality all its own. The original album also included two collaborations with the Jeff Beck Group (classic line-up, with Beck, Ron Wood, Nicky Hopkins, Tony Newman, and Rod Stewart who stayed home), opening with the ferocious title track, an almost unbelievably intense excercise in controlled dynamics - a hard rock/funk classic, with Donovan at his 'hottest' and the Group truly 'molten'. The other D/JBG collaboration, "Trudi," rocks out, albeit in a less overpowering manner. I should note these tracks were from the last session by the Beck Group (May '69) who would break up by the end of July. EMI has turned this (and their other Donovan reissues) into "The story of the making of..." with outtakes, demos, copious notes, and period photos and memorabilia. A long rumored third track with the Beck Group ("Stromburg Twins") finally sees the light of day (a fourth, "Homesickness," appears in abruptly truncated form on the fine "HMS"), and the alternates, demos and sketches all provide great context and background on this still underrated artist's work habits, not to mention some highly listenable music, making this the edition of "Barabajagal" to own. Kudos to EMI!