Vinyl Album - Donovan - H.M.S. Donovan - Dawn

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Donovan
Title:	H.M.S. Donovan
Label:	Dawn
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	DNLD 4001
Date:	Jul 1971
Format:	Double LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	6 Own, 1 Wants
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Donovan	The Walrus And The Carpenter	Lewis Carroll, Donovan Leitch	Rate
A2	Donovan	Jabberwocky	Lewsi Carroll, Donovan Leitch	Rate
A3	Donovan	The Seller Of Stars	Thora Stowell, Donovan Leitch	Rate
A4	Donovan	Lost Time	Ffrida Wolfe, Donovan Leitch	Rate
A5	Donovan	The Little White Road	Thora Stowell, Donovan Leitch	Rate
A6	Donovan	The Star	Anon., Donovan Leitch	Rate
B1	Donovan	Coulter's Candy	Anon., Donovan Leitch	Rate
B2	Donovan	The Road	Lucy Diamond, Donovan Leitch	Rate
B3	Donovan	Things To Wear	Agnes Grozier, Herbertson, Donovan Leitch	Rate
B4	Donovan	The Owl And The Pussycat	Edward Lear, Donovan Leitch	Rate
B5	Donovan	Homesickness	Donovan Leitch	Rate
B6	Donovan	Fisheseinlove	Donovan Leitch	Rate
B7	Donovan	Mr. Wind	Donovan Leitch	Rate
B8	Donovan	Wynken Blynken And Nod	Eugene Field, Donovan Leitch	Rate
C1	Donovan	Celia Of The Seals	Donovan Leitch	Rate
C2	Donovan	The Pee Song	Donovan Leitch	Rate
C3	Donovan	The Voyage Of The Moon	Donovan Leitch	Rate
C4	Donovan	The Unicorn	Donovan Leitch	Rate
C5	Donovan	Lord Of The Dance	Sydney Carter	Rate
C6	Donovan	Little Ben	Donovan Leitch	Rate
C7	Donovan	Can Ye Dance	Donovan Leitch	Rate
D1	Donovan	In An Old Fashioned Picture Book	Donovan Leitch	Rate
D2	Donovan	The Song Of The Wandering Aengus	W. B. Yeats, Donovan Leitch	Rate
D3	Donovan	A Funny Man	Natalie Joan, Donovan Leitch	Rate
D4	Donovan	Lord Of The Reedy River	Donovan Leitch	Rate
D5	Donovan	Henry Martin	Adopt. And Arr. Donovan Leitch	Rate
D6	Donovan	Queen Mab	Thomas Hood Music Arr. Donovan Leitch	Rate
D7	Donovan	La Moora	Donovan Leitch	Rate

Notes

Produced by Donovan
Engineered by Mike Bobak at Morgan Studios, London
Thanks to Mary (Fiddle), Mike Thomson (Bass, Organ), Danny Thompson (Concert Bass Fiddle on "Celia"), John Carr (Drums), Julian and his sisters, also Smudge, Rod and Mick, Cynthia (sings on "Star", Wynken", and "Pee Song"), and other friends for their help.

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Ade Macrow 9th Feb 2020		The tri-fold colour poster was only included in the first 1,000 pressings of the orange label. Subsequent orange label versions and the other two label designs do not include the poster.



Ade Macrow 9th Feb 2020		A further minor label variation - 3A, if you will - has the full stops reinstated for H.M.S. on the rising sun label and the song titles in upper and lower case, rather than the all capitals, as depicted above.



Ade Macrow 21st Jun 2017		Note the loss of the full stops for H.M.S. on the rising sun 3rd label variant, too.



Ade Macrow 24th May 2017		Two of the four ultra-rare 'rising sun' 3rd label version pressings added.



Ade Macrow 24th May 2017		The change from the original orange to the purple/lilac was initiated within weeks of the album's UK release. (I bought it on issue and again, three weeks later, with the newer purple/lilac issue. A brief pressing run of 'rising sun' Dawn labels was made when Dawn changed its label design again but HMS Donovan had many more purple/lilac pressings than the first (orange) or third (rising sun) variants. Hence the use of the purple/lilac versions in the 4 LP box set 'Four Shades Of Donovan' - it was a way for parent company Pye to shift more back stock of HMS, Open Road (present in Four Shades in its original orange incarnation) and Donovan's Greatest Hits. Open Road, incidentally, only appeared in the UK in orange and later (rarely) 'rising sun' Dawn label designs. There was no purple/lilac pressing for the album.



mowdamowda 2nd May 2017		Okay, upon further investigation Dawn changed from the orange to the purple label somewhere in 1971. HMS Donovan was released in July 1971. My suggestion would be the label change happened midway through the pressing of HMS Donovan. Quite a fanciful hypothesis is it not? http://imgur.com/a/2J4B8



mowdamowda 2nd May 2017		I'm surprised to hear that. I was a huge Donovan fan and when I heard this album was coming out had one specifically imported to Oz from the U.K. If there was a label change in the space of 4 weeks from release, I'll accept it. Will have to do a little research on this to find out what's what.



Hawkmarty SUBS 30th Apr 2017		Histories of the Dawn label state that the orange labels were first, followed by the purple and finally the sun.



mowdamowda 30th Apr 2017		The purple labels are the first issue (well, obviously not). :-(