Ten hours of Donovan? We'll see...

[teach1st]

It's Donovan Sunday here in the teach1st hovel, and I've got ten hours forty-eight minutes of Donovan queued up, ready to be piped throughout the hovel as I grade papers and get caught up. Much of Donovan's early stuff was background to my sixties and seventies excursions so I naturally like it, but I'm not familiar with his newer stuff. Maybe I should have mixed in some Beefheart, Zappa, and Yardbirds to counteract the sweetness.

Would you be able to take ten hours? Where's my incense? Insulin?


Ballad Of A Crystal Man (Version I)

Walk along and talk along and live your lives quite freely
But leave our children with their toys of peppermint and candy.
For seagull I don't want your wings,
I don't want your freedom in a lie.

Your thoughts they are of harlequin, your speeches of quicksilver.
I read your faces like a poem, kaleidoscope of hate words.
For seagull I don't want your wings,
I don't want your freedom in a lie.

As you fill your glasses with the wine of murdered Negroes
Think you not of beauty that spreads like morning sun-glow.
For seagull I don't want your wings,
I don't want your freedom in a lie.

On the quilted battlefield of soldiers dazzling made of toy tin
The big bomb like a child's hand could sweep them dead just so to win.
Seagull I don't want your wings,
I don't want your freedom in a lie.

Vietnam, your latest game, you're playing with your blackest Queen
Damn your souls and curse your grins, I stand here with a fading dream.
Seagull I don't want your wings,
I don't want your freedom in a lie.

[signmike]

1. On Radio one night . . .

the DJ was playing 5 hours of Donny Osmond

We are about to experience 4 more years of Bush

I can almost live thru 2 1/2 minutes of Whitney Houston.

[dbt]

2. Whoa! Is "Cosmic Wheels" on the playlist?

What about "Barabajagal" and/or "Rikki Tikki Tavi?" Your students must either love you totally or think you a raving nutcase!

Cheers,

:hi:
dbt

NB: Mixing Donovan and Beefheart may cause explosions. Please proceed carefully.

[teach1st]

4. All are on the playlist...

..no students here, though. It's Sunday and I'm at home in the hovel. Besides, I'm not sure their parents would appreciate "Young Girl Blues" (yourself you touch, but not too much) or Donovan's apparent interest in younger girls in general.

I have played "I Love My Shirt," "Pee Song," and a few other songs for the younger set, but the kids would rather listen to Who and the Ramones if they have to listen to my old stuff.

[MuseRider]

3. I'm not certain I could

take 10 hours of anything right now but if I could it might be Donovan but I doubt I would get much done, gotta sing along you know! Loved Donovan, enjoy.

[peacefreak]

5. Nothin' wrong with that.

Gift from a Flower to the Garden is still one of my favorites.

[teach1st]

6. Yes...

...overall "Gift From a Flower" is Donovan's best. I also liked "Donovan Live in Concert" from 1968.

[Kahuna]

7. I love Donovan. Enjoy!

:toast:

[chiburb]

8. Listen for MY man, Shawn Phillips!

"I wanted a pop sensibility in my records which would appeal to the mass, and introduce my unique vocals and lyrics of a curious call to adventure," Donovan explains. "Mickie was the best pop producer around , and he saw immediately I needed an arranger of experimental talent. Shawn Phillips particularly was my sideman for the fusion of the sitar and my music; Shawn also is an excellent 12-string player. Mickie would choose the singles, and I would explore the albums with John. Like mini-movies, each song took the listener into the strange world I create in my art." A long time before Sgt. Pepper made film score arrangements to Beatle songs, Sunshine  Superman was doing it in my Abbey Road sessions I did with Mickie Most and John Cameron, in the same Studio One the Beatles would use for their coming masterpieces." In fact Donovan recalls Most asking him not to play Sunshine Superman to McCartney in advance of its release, fearing that the Beatles might be influenced by some of its ideas, though "of course I did.

http://www.richieunterberger.com/donovan.html

[teach1st]

9. Got him..

[peacefreak]

12. Oh my.

I might have to meditate on that for awhile.

[scarlet_owl]

10. I could listen to Donovan for ten hours.

In fact, I think I'll listen to him right now.

[teach1st]

11. If everybody played Donovan today...

...maybe we could end the war.

It's hard to feel warlike around his songs..

[teach1st]

13. Update...I'm not going to make it

I really tried. But I'm not going to be able to do it. I have over three hours left and I've got this irresistable urge to watch football while consuming rare steak, bourbon on the rocks, and a big, old smelly cigar.

I must escape Donovan. Must play Ween....