DONOVAN A GIFT FROM A FLOWER TO A GARDEN 2 LP GATEFOLD EPIC E2-171

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Donovan ?(2 LP GATEFOLD) A Gift From A Flower To A Garden Label:Epic ?– E2-171, E2 171 Format:2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo  07464001711 BARCODE Country:US Genre:Rock Style:Folk Rock
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Tracklist   Phonograph Record /The First A1 Wear Your Love Like Heaven 2:26 A2 Mad John's Escape 2:16 A3 Skip-A-Long Sam 2:23 A4 Sun 3:13 A5 There Was A Time 1:59 B1 Oh Gosh 1:42 B2 Little Boy In Corduroy 2:33 B3 Under The Greenwood Tree Words By – Lewis Carroll, William Shakespeare 1:53 B4 The Land Of Doesn't Have To Be 2:32 B5 Someone's Singing Electric Bass – Jack Bruce 2:44 Phonograph Record/The Second C1 Song Of The Naturalist's Wife 2:50 C2 The Enchanted Gypsy 3:15 C3 Voyage Into The Golden Screen 3:10 C4 Isle Of Islay 2:20 C5 The Mandolin Man And His Secret 3:28 C6 Lay Of The Last Tinker 1:45 D1 The Tinker And The Crab 2:50 D2 Widow With Shawl (A Portrait) 2:57 D3 The Lullaby Of Spring 3:22 D4 The Magpie 1:26 D5 Starfish-On-The-Toast 2:38 D6 Epistle To Derroll 5:42 Companies, etc. Engineered At – CBS Studios, London Copyright (c) – Donovan (Music) Ltd. Published By – Peer International Corp. Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman Credits Art Direction – Sid Maurer Bongos – Candy John Carr* Composed By, Arranged By – Donovan Congas – Candy John Carr* (tracks: A1 to B5) Design [Photograph Design] – Karl Ferris Double Bass [String Bass] – Ken Baldock (tracks: C1 to D6) Drums – Kieth Webb* (tracks: A1 to B5) Drums, Bells, Congas, Cymbal [Turkish And Finger Cymbals] – Tony Carr (tracks: C1 to D6) Electric Bass – Cliff Barton (tracks: A1 to B4) Electric Guitar – Eric Leese (tracks: A1 to B5) Engineer – Michael Ross Trevor* Executive-Producer – Ashley Kozak Flute – Harold McNair Harmonica – Donovan (tracks: C1 to D6) Illustration – Mick Taylor (6), Sheena McCall Lyrics By [Verse] – Donovan (tracks: C1 to D6) Organ, Piano, Harpsichord – Mike O'Neil* (tracks: A1 to B5) Producer – Mickie Most Vibraphone – Mike Carr (2) (tracks: A1 to B5) Vocals, Guitar, Liner Notes – Donovan Whistling – Donovan (tracks: A1 to B5) Notes US gatefold (no box) on late Epic labels.
more... A Gift From a Flower to a Garden is the fifth album from British singer-songwriter Donovan, and marks the first double album of his career and one of the first box sets in rock music. It was released in the US in December 1967 (Epic Records L2N 6071 (monaural) / B2N 171 (stereo)) and in the UK on 16 April 1968 (Pye Records NPL 20000 (monaural) / NSPL 20000 (stereo)). In December 1967, Epic Records also released each of the two records from A Gift From a Flower to a Garden as separate albums in the US. The first record was released as Wear Your Love Like Heaven, and the second record was released as For Little Ones. This was done to allow budgeting for the double album package, which included a folder of the printed lyrics to the second disc with artwork, and a cover featuring an infrared photo of Donovan by Karl Ferris who was his and Jimi Hendrix's personal photographer (requiring six colour separations for printing, instead of the usual four separations).
History  After recording the Mellow Yellow album, Donovan focused on releasing hit singles. "Epistle to Dippy" (essentially an inside-joke/open letter for a childhood friend) hit the top 20 in February 1967 and "There is a Mountain" (#11 US; #8 UK) followed in August.
Riding high on the success of these singles, Donovan entered the studio in October to record his next album. The double album that resulted from these sessions consisted of one disc of electric pop music (Wear Your Love Like Heaven) and another of acoustic children's music (For Little Ones). The acoustic album allowed Donovan to present a facet of his songwriting that had not been featured on his singles. It also allowed him to show his strength as a guitar player and performer in a way that he could not when augmented by session musicians. In fact, Donovan's live performances of the time featured instrumentation and performances more in line with For Little Ones than his hit singles and the first record of A Gift From a Flower to a Garden.
While Mickie Most produced the single from the album ("Wear Your Love Like Heaven" b/w "Oh Gosh"), and is credited with the album's production, Donovan actually produced the bulk of the material himself, allowing Most the credit to help sales.
In the album's liner notes, Donovan explained his purpose in creating two rather different discs (one for the present generation, and the other for the "dawning generation"), and also denounced the use of drugs. Several of his earlier records had contained both veiled and open references to drug use (particularly marijuana and LSD), but since the release of Mellow Yellow, he had both been arrested and prosecuted for marijuana possession, and had seen people he knew turning to harder drugs (speed, heroin, cocaine), and the damage this caused in their lives. Instead, Donovan promoted the use of meditation and other techniques, in his new songs.