Dana Gillespie - Donna Donna PROMO PYE debut DONOVAN
  €   30
  $   34

 


€ 30 Sold For
May 7, 2011 Sold Date
Apr 30, 2011 Start Date
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  Austria Country Of Seller
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Dana Gillespie

orig. 1965 promo 7" on PYE (7N 15872)

Donna Donna (Donovan play guitar) / It's no use saying if

very rare and hard most impossible to find nowadays

 

30 March 1949, Woking, Surrey, England. A former British water-skiing champion at the age of 15, Gillespie embarked on a singing career during the folk boom of the mid-60s. She befriended Donovan, who played guitar on her 1965 single, ‘Donna Donna’, but was later drawn towards acting with roles in the 1968 Hammer film The Lost Continent and the stage musical Liz. Dick Rowe, the Decca Records A&R man who turned down the Beatles, allegedly said to her, ‘It doesn’t really matter if you can sing or not, you’ve got a great pair of tits’. However, Gillespie subsequently proved her worth throughout her incredibly varied career.

 

I am collecting Dana Gillespie records and I miss the non-promo release of PAY YOU BACK WITH INTEREST (probably with blue/black labels) - I would swap this one for it + add something else or a balance payment. Also I am interested in the french TU N'AS VRAIMENT PAS CHANGE 45tours or any testpressings/acetates, etc. If you have any of this or anything else unusual of Dana Gillespie for sale/swapping just let me know.


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