DONOVAN A Gift From A Flower To A Garden 2LP BoxSet PYE 1968 UK orig+inserts+ste

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DONOVAN

with bright psychedelic pop. Upon his emergence during the mid-'60s, Donovan was anointed 

"Britain's answer to Bob Dylan," a facile but largely unfounded comparison which compromised 

the Scottish folk-pop troubadour's own unique vision. Where the thrust of Dylan's music remains 

its bleak introspection and bitter realism, Donovan fully embraced the wide-eyed optimism of the 

flower power movement, his ethereal, ornate songs radiating a mystical beauty and childlike wonder; 

for better or worse, his recordings remain quintessential artifacts of the psychedelic era, 

capturing the peace and love idealism of their time to perfection

"A GIFT FROM A FLOWER TO A GARDEN"

Produced by Mickie Most

1968     2LP BOX SET    PYE RECORDS       NSPL 20000   STEREO

MADE IN ENGLAND    ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING

[First Pressing with Light Blue label with Black stripe & Logo on top.

Later pressing (around 1970) also with Light Blue label BUT with Black stripe & Logo on left ]

HEAVY CARDBOARD BOX COVER including a portfolio with 12 inserts.

[The same box was used for the mono and stereo issues. On the front on some of the stereo 

version boxes, the mono cat.nr. was obscured by a sticker stating the stereo cat.nr. 

THIS ONE WAS WITHOUT STICKER.

Inside the box the mono cat.nr. ''NPL 20000'' is still visible.]

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL: PYE -  LIGHT BLUE LABEL w/BLACK STRIPE & LOGO on TOP - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on box cover: (front) NPL 20000   (inside top panel) MONO NPL 20000    

Catalog on labels: 

Record 1: NSPL 20000/1  (NSPL 20000-A) / NSPL 20000/1  (NSPL 20000-B)

Record 2: NSPL 20000/2  (NSPL 20000-C) / NSPL 20000/2  (NSPL 20000-D)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped):  NSPL20000A-1?G   STEREO

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): NSPL20000B-1?G  S STEREO

Matrix / Runout (Side C, Stamped):  NSPL20000C-1?G   STEREO   (Scratched out): N?S?P?L?1?8?2?2?2?A?-?1???G?

Matrix / Runout (Side D, Stamped): NSPL20000D-1?G   STEREO   (Scratched out): N?S?P?L?1?8?2?2?2?A?-?1???G?

Other / Runout (on all sides, Etched UK purchase tax code ): KT

On labels: text on top reads "All rights of the manufacturers................Prohibited  Made in England"

? 1968

(All composed by Donovan Leitch)

Produced by Mickie Most

Rights Society / Publishing: Donovan Music

On Box Inside Top Panel: Phonograph Record / The First.....

....All works in this package © 1967 DONOVAN (MUSIC) LTD.

all works with the exception of * composed and arranged by DONOVAN

Producer-Mickie Most

Distributed By Pye Records (Sales) Ltd. A.T.V. House Great Cumberland Place London W1

"Pye" is the Trade mark of Pye Linited Cambridge England.

On Box Inside Bottom Panel: Phonograph Record / The Second.....

....all lyrical and musical works composed by Donovan

DONOVAN (MUSIC) LTD.

Verse and Music Composed by DONOVAN......

......The Engineer-Michael Ross Trevor (CBS STUDIOS, LONDON, ENGLAND).....

.....communication-Domains, Northaim, Sussex, England, Britain   FL2

Side A: WEAR YOUR LOVE LIKE HEAVEN - MAD JOHN'S ESCAPE

SKIP A LONG SAM - SUN - THERE WAS A TIME

Side B: OH GOSH - LITTLE BOY IN CORDUROY - UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE

THE LAND OF DOESN'T HAVE TO BE - SOMEONE'S SINGING

Side C: SONG OF THE NATURALIST'S WIFE - THE ENCHANTED GYPSY

VOYAGE INTO THE GOLDEN SCREEN - ISLE OF ISLAY

THE MANDOLIN MAN AND HIS SECRET - LAY OF THE LAST TINKER

Side D: THE TINKER AND THE CRAB - WIDOW WITH SHAWL (A PORTRAIT)

THE LULLABY OF SPRING - THE MAGPIE

STARFISH ON THE TOAST - EPISTLE TO DERROLL

RECORDS 

Disc One: NEAR EX but (please, read above description)

Disc Two: VG+ but (please, read above description) 

BOX SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

PORTFOLIO NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)

INSERTS EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Rock music's first two-LP box set, A Gift from a Flower to a Garden overcomes its original 

shortcomings and stands out as a prime artifact of the flower-power era that produced it. 

The music still seems a bit fey, and overall more spacy than the average Moody Blues 

album of this era, but the sheer range of subjects and influences make this a 

surprisingly rewarding work. Essentially two albums recorded simultaneously in the 

summer of 1967, the electric tracks include Jack Bruce among the session players. 

The acoustic tracks represent an attempt by Donovan to get back to his old sound 

and depart from the heavily electric singles ("Sunshine Superman," etc.) 

and albums he'd been doing -- it is folkier and bluesier (in an English 

folk sense) than much of his recent work...(AllMusic)