Vinyl Album - Donovan - Donovan's Greatest Hits - Pye

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Donovan
Title:	Donovan's Greatest Hits
Label:	Pye
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	NSPL 18283
Date:	Mar 1969
Format:	Stereo LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	17 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Donovan	Epistle To Dippy	Donovan Leitch	Rate
A2	Donovan	Sunshine Superman	Donovan Leitch	Rate
A3	Donovan	There Is A Mountain	Donovan Leitch	Rate
A4	Donovan	Jennifer Juniper	Donovan Leitch	Rate
A5	Donovan	Wear Your Love Like Heaven	Donovan Leitch	Rate
B1	Donovan	Season Of The Witch	Donovan Leitch	Rate
B2	Donovan	Mellow Yellow	Donovan Leitch	Rate
B3	Donovan	Colours	Donovan Leitch	Rate
B4	Donovan	Hurdy Gurdy Man	Donovan Leitch	Rate
B5	Donovan	Catch The Wind	Donovan Leitch	Rate
B6	Donovan	Lalena	Donovan Leitch	Rate

Notes

Gatefold sleeve with stapled colour booklet.
Sleeve incorrectly lists "Season of the Witch" as A6. The label correctly lists it as B1.

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Buzzard 18th Nov 2020		Further to these notes, I'd like to know more about who or what prevented Pye from releasing the 3 singles in the UK, as mentioned by Ade Macrow. Were the Pye people served injunctions? Also, please note that this album marks the first appearance of the 'extended' version (i.e. not the single) of 'Sunshine Superman'. Oh, & I too have a UK mono copy in first pressing.



tages2 30th Nov 2018		Just wanted to add that I have an original UK Pye mono LP of this, as well as an original stereo, so it was definitely released in both formats.



Ade Macrow 6th Apr 2018		I've yet to find a copy without the 'Stereo NSPL' oversticker on the back cover, masking the original 'Mono NPL' printed there - suggesting that issuing this album in stereophonic (albeit 'fake stereo') rather than the monaural format was a last-minute decision. Unless it was a printing error and all jackets were always intended to be stereo. No mono copies of this disc have ever been listed in Pye's trade catalogue(s) for the year.



Ade Macrow 5th Apr 2018		So instead of it being called, Donovan's Greatest Hits, it should've been titled The compiler's Greatest Favourites from the Donovan Canon. Indeed so - or "Donovan's US Hits (Plus Two New Re-Recordings)". Ironically, the new versions of Catch The Wind and Colours would, in a later era, undoubtedly be used as a 'selling point'!.



wordnwot 31st Mar 2018		So instead of it being called, Donovan's Greatest Hits, it should've been titled The compiler's Greatest Favourites from the Donovan Canon. (when I purchased my copy when it came out, I must admit a lot of the songs were unfamiliar so, it was an LP of newly released stuff).



Ade Macrow 6th Sep 2017		Not quite finally. Lalena wasn't issued as a UK single, either. As with WYLLH and ETD, Pye allocated a number but nothing ultimately ensued.



Ade Macrow 6th Sep 2017		Finally, Season Of The Witch never saw 'single duty' either in Britain or America, making this original configuration of Donovan 's Greatest Hits a very odd and misleading item indeed!



Ade Macrow 6th Sep 2017		Wear Your Love Like Heaven was another USA single scheduled for issue on Pye - and again given a 7N 17xxx number but it too was cancelled at the last minute.



Ade Macrow 6th Sep 2017		In addition, further confusion was caused with UK buyers as EpistleTo Dippy was never even released in Britain (scheduled and assigned a catalogue number but pulled at the last minute), let alone a hit, unlike in the States, of course.



Ade Macrow 6th Sep 2017		B3 Colours is also a new recording. Although not advertised as such anywhere on the labels or album cover, these 1969 Mickie Most produced cuts were a result of the legal imbroglio preventing the use of the pre-Most Peter Eden & Geoff Stephens material. CTW and C were stil licensed to Eden-Stephens' own Iver Productions. Iver had franchised these and the other 28 recordings that pre-dated Most taking over production duties to Pye in Britain and Hickory in America. These agreements were still in place when this album was released, thus necessitating new versions. It was still sharp practice from Epic, not to advertise this fact! Nowadays, it'd undergo the usual spin, being blurted out from a cover sticker or some such, as "with brand new recordings of Catch The Wind and Colours".



Sinkronizer 18th Apr 2017		B5 "Catch The Wind" is a new and completely different recording to the original lasting just over five minutes.

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Linked Releases

USA - Epic - 1969

Australia - Epic - 1969

South Africa - CBS - 1969

UK - Pye - 1969 [Mono]

UK - Pye - 1972

South Africa - CBS - 1981

Greece - Epic