''Colours'' is a compilation album from Scottish singer-songwriter
Donovan
Donovan Phillips Leitch (born 10 May 1946), known mononymously as Donovan, is a Scottish musician, songwriter, and record producer. He developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelic rock and world mus ...
. It was released in the United States (Del Rack DRZ 921) in 1991.
History
In the early 1990s, audio engineer
Steve Hoffman digitally remixed and remastered ten songs from the original master tapes of Donovan's 1965
Pye Records
Pye Records was a British record label. Its best known artists were Lonnie Donegan (1956–1969), Petula Clark (1957–1971), the Searchers (1963–1967), the Kinks (1964–1971), Sandie Shaw (1964–1971), Status Quo (1968–1971) and Brotherhoo ...
recordings. The songs were released as a compilation album entitled ''Colours'', but bore no resemblance to the previous albums of the same title.
Track listing
All tracks by Donovan Leitch, except where noted.
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Catch the Wind
"Catch the Wind" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan.
Pye Records released "Catch the Wind" backed with "Why Do You Treat Me Like You Do?" as Donovan's debut release (Pye 7N.15801) in the United Kingdom on 28 ...
" – 2:53
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Colours
Color (American English) or colour (British English) is the visual perceptual property deriving from the spectrum of light interacting with the photoreceptor cells of the eyes. Color categories and physical specifications of color are associ ...
" – 2:43
#"
Universal Soldier" (
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie, (born Beverly Sainte-Marie, February 20, 1941) is an Indigenous Canadian-American (Piapot Cree Nation) singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. While working in these are ...
) – 2:11
#"Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)" – 3:06
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Josie" – 3:24
#"Jersey Thursday" – 2:11
#"Belated Forgiveness Plea" – 2:54
#"Sunny Goodge Street" – 2:54
#"Ballad of Geraldine" – 4:40
#"The Little Tin Soldier" (
Shawn Phillips
Shawn Phillips (born February 3, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, primarily influential in the 1960s and 1970s. His work is rooted in folk rock but straddles other genres, including jazz fusion and funk. Phillips has reco ...
) – 2:58
External links
Colours (1991) – Donovan Unofficial Site
1991 compilation albums
Donovan compilation albums
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