Rare RED Vinyl DONOVAN HMS 2LP UK Import Psych Folk
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Description
ARTIST: DONOVAN
TITLE: HMS DONOVAN
RECORD LABEL: DAWN 4001-1. Made in England; 2 LPs. DARK RED vinyl. Gatefold cover.
DESCRIPTION: DARK RED TRANSPARENT VINYL.
This photo shows light shining through the red vinyl. Both records are red vinyl.
FRONT & BACK COVER
INSIDE COVER
LABEL FOR 1st RECORD LABEL FOR 2nd RECORD
From the ALL MUSIC GUIDE REVIEW
One has to give Donovan a lot of credit for attempting a release like HMS Donovan in 1971, although it never came close to charting at the time of its release. The drugged-out hippie era that had spawned trippy folk-based albums such as Gift From a Flower to a Garden was long past, and acoustic folk recordings were considered passe, yet here was Donovan setting words by Lewis Carroll, Thora Stowell, Ffrida Wolfe, Agnes Grozier Herbertson, Lucy Diamond, Edward Lear, Eugene Field, William Butler Yeats, Natalie Joan, and Thomas Hood, among others, to what were often hauntingly beautiful melodies, mostly strummed on a guitar. What's more, it just about all works perfectly, once one gets past the tape-effect tricks and other silliness of the opening track, "The Walrus and the Carpenter." Spawned at a time when the singer/songwriter was about to become a father, the album has a decidedly playful tone, even more so than its obvious predecessor, For Little Ones. Lovely as that record was, there are also long stretches of HMS Donovan that have far prettier melodies, arrangements, and accompaniment, played at more attractive tempos. The playing here, which is mostly just Donovan's solo guitar with maybe a string bass and organ, and an unnamed female singer or two backing him on a few tracks, is crisper and more focused (along with the recording), and the tunes are seldom short of gorgeous, whether written by Donovan or simply his arrangements of traditional folk melodies. HMS Donovan marked the singer's last venture of this kind, into his mid-/late-'60s folk style, or into folk-style children's songs, and it was the last of his albums to be characterized by whimsy. As a sign of some of the behind-the-scenes tensions that characterized its production, HMS Donovan contains one attempt at a rock track, in the form of "Homesickness" — this failed attempt to emulate such late-'60s singles as "Hurdy Gurdy Man" is the only failed track on the album, and was also the only track here on which Donovan's longtime producer Mickie Most had any input. "Lord of the Dance" (written by Sydney Carter and utilizing a melody that Americans may know better as "Simple Gifts"), "Queen Mab," and "Celia of the Seals" are worth the price of admission by themselves.
Tracks
1 The Walrus and the Carpenter
2 Jabberwocky
3 The Seller of Stars
4 Lost Time
5 The Little White Road
6 The Star
7 Coulter's Candy
8 The Road
9 Things to Wear
10 The Owl and the Pussycat
11 Homesickness
12 Fishes in Love
13 Mr. Wind
14 Wynken, Blynken and Nod
15 Celia of the Seals
16 The Pee Song
17 The Voyage of the Moon
18 The Unicorn
19 Lord of the Dance
20 Little Ben
21 Can Ye Dance
22 In an Old-Fashioned Picture Book
23 The Song of Wandering Aengus
24 A Funny Man
25 Lord of the Reedy River
26 Martin, Henry
27 Queen Mab Hood 2:18
28 La Moora
CONDITION:
VINYL (play- & visually graded) is VG++, some occasional light surface noise on disc 1, some spindle marks.
Generally excellent, with GORGEOUS SOUND ON A BEAUTIFUL BRITISH PRESSING.
COVER is VG+(+), very light rw and cw, some wear on the open edge, 4 small spots on inside.
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