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''Fairytale'' is the second album from British 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 first released in the UK on 22 October 1965 through
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(catalog number NPL 18128). The US version of ''Fairytale'' was released by
Hickory Records Hickory Records is an American record label founded in 1954 by Acuff-Rose Music, which operated the label up to 1979. Sony Music Publishing (then Sony/ATV) revived the label in 2007. Originally based in Nashville, and functioning as an independe ...
(catalog number LPM 127 onaural/ LPS 127 tereo in November 1965 with a slightly different set of songs. Peter Eden, Geoff Stephens and Terry Kennedy produced the original album.


History

''Fairytale'' finds Donovan evolving his styles further towards British
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, especially on songs such as "Summer Day Reflection Song" and "Jersey Thursday". "Sunny Goodge Street" foreshadows the jazzy feel and descriptions of life in urban London that Donovan would continue to explore over the next two years. Like his previous album ''
What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid ''What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid'' is the debut album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the UK four days after his nineteenth birthday on 14 May 1965, through Pye Records (catalog number NPL 18117). Terry Kennedy, P ...
'', ''Fairytale'' primarily features Donovan singing and playing mouth harp and
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.
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 re ...
is playing the extra
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. For release in the US,
Hickory Records Hickory Records is an American record label founded in 1954 by Acuff-Rose Music, which operated the label up to 1979. Sony Music Publishing (then Sony/ATV) revived the label in 2007. Originally based in Nashville, and functioning as an independe ...
added a cover of
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 ...
's " Universal Soldier" and removed a cover of
Bert Jansch Herbert Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s as an acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter ...
's "Oh Deed I Do". Donovan's recording of "Universal Soldier" was released in the US as a single the previous September, and was achieving some chart success. The Canadian pressing, issued on the British Pye label, omitted "Belated Forgiveness Plea" but included "Oh Deed I Do" and "Universal Soldier".


Reissues

*In January 1969, ''Fairytale'' was reissued in an edited form (
Marble Arch Records Marble Arch Records was a subsidiary of Pye Records that released budget records from 1964 to around 1980. Compact discs were also released from the late 1980s to around 1994. Background Pye Records created this subsidiary label with in a type o ...
MAL 867) in the UK. "Colours" and "The Little Tin Soldier" were both removed from the album. *In February 1991,
Castle Records A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the word ''castle'', but usually consider it to be the private fortified r ...
reissued the UK version of ''Fairytale'' on compact disc (Castle CLACD226) in the UK. *In 1996,
Sequel Records Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and is as of 2013 a subsidiary of BMG Rights Management solely for reissues. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest m ...
reissued the US version of ''Fairytale'' on compact disc (Sequel 1004-2). The CD features seven bonus tracks. The first bonus track is a cover of
Bert Jansch Herbert Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s as an acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter ...
's "Oh Deed I Do". On the original US version of ''Fairytale'' "Oh Deed I Do" was cut and a cover of
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 ...
's "Universal Soldier" was added. The next three songs ("Do You Hear Me Now", "The War Drags On" and "The Ballad of a Crystal Man") are from Donovan's 1965 EP ''Universal Soldier''. "Turquoise" and "Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)" were originally released as Donovan's third UK single on 30 October 1965. The last bonus track is the single version of "Colours". *On 19 February 2002,
Sanctuary Records Sanctuary Records Group Limited was a record label based in the United Kingdom and is as of 2013 a subsidiary of BMG Rights Management solely for reissues. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest m ...
reissued the original UK version of Fairytale on compact disc. The CD features six bonus tracks. The first four bonus tracks were originally released 15 August 1965 in the UK on Donovan's ''Universal Soldier'' EP. That EP featured a different take of "The Ballad of a Crystal Man". The last two bonus tracks are both sides of Donovan's third single "Turquoise"/"Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)" released 30 October 1965 in the UK. *On 22 February 2005, Silverline Records reissued the original UK version of Fairytale on
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. The DualDisc has an identical track listing to the 2002 Sanctuary Records reissue.


Cover versions

*American vocalist
Judy Collins Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter and musician with a career spanning seven decades. An Academy Award-nominated documentary director and a Grammy Award-winning recording artist, she is known for her ec ...
covered the song "Sunny Goodge Street" on her 1966 album, ''
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''. *American musician
Lindsey Buckingham Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949) is an American musician and record producer, best known as the lead guitarist and male lead vocalist of the band Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987 and 1997 to 2018. In addition to his tenure with Fl ...
covered the song "To Try For The Sun" on his 2006 album '' Under the Skin''. *American jazz pianist
Vince Guaraldi Vincent Anthony Guaraldi (; birth name, né Dellaglio, July 17, 1928 – February 6, 1976) was an American jazz pianist best known for composing music for animated television adaptations of the ''Peanuts'' comic strip. His compositions for this s ...
recorded a live version of "Sunny Goodge Street" in 1967 at the Old Town Theater in
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, later released on the album ''
An Afternoon with the Vince Guaraldi Quartet ''An Afternoon with the Vince Guaraldi Quartet'' is a live performance double CD by American jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi (credited to the Vince Guaraldi Quartet), released on November 24, 2011, by V.A.G. Publishing. To date, it is the last album ...
'' (2011). (The song is mistitled " Autumn Leaves" on the release.)


Track listing


Original album (UK)

Side 1 #"
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 ...
" (Donovan Leitch) – 2:11 #"
To Try for the Sun "To Try for the Sun" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. The "To Try for the Sun" single was backed with "Turquoise (song), Turquoise" and released in the United States in January 1966 through Hickory Records (H ...
" (Leitch) – 3:36 #"Sunny Goodge Street" (Leitch) – 2:55 #"Oh Deed I Do" (
Bert Jansch Herbert Jansch (3 November 1943 – 5 October 2011) was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s as an acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter ...
) – 2:00 #"Circus of Sour" (Paul Bernath) – 1:50 #"The Summer Day Reflection Song" (Leitch) – 2:11 Side 2 #"Candy Man" (Traditional; arranged by Leitch) – 3:25 #"Jersey Thursday" (Leitch) – 2:13 #"Belated Forgiveness Plea" (Leitch) – 2:54 #"The Ballad of a Crystal Man" (Leitch) – 3:50 #"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 re ...
) – 3:02 #"The Ballad of Geraldine" (Leitch) – 4:38


1965 Hickory Records version (US)

Side 1 #" 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 ...
) – 2:16 #"To Try for the Sun" (Leitch) – 3:36 #"Sunny Goodge Street" (Leitch) – 2:55 #"Colours" (Leitch) – 2:44 #"Circus of Sour" (Bernath) – 1:50 #"Summer Day Reflection Song" (Leitch) – 2:11 Side 2 #"Candy Man" (traditional; arranged by Leitch) – 3:25 #"Jersey Thursday" (Leitch) – 2:13 #"Belated Forgiveness Plea" (Leitch) – 2:54 #"The Ballad of a Crystal Man" (Leitch) – 3:50 #"The Little Tin Soldier" (Phillips) – 3:02 #"The Ballad of Geraldine" (Leitch) – 4:38


1996 Sequel Records version (US)

Track listing as on the 1965 Hickory Records version plus the following bonus tracks: #"Oh Deed I Do" (Jansch)  – 2:08 #"Do You Hear Me Now" (Jansch)  – 1:51 #"The War Drags On" (
Mick Softley Michael Softley (26 September 1939 – 1 September 2017) was an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. A figurehead during the British folk scene, Softley set up his own folk club, released three albums and worked with performers such as Mac ...
) – 3:44 #"The Ballad of a Crystal Man" (Leitch) – 3:18 #"
Turquoise Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrated phosphate of copper and aluminium, with the chemical formula . It is rare and valuable in finer grades and has been prized as a gemstone and ornamental stone for thousands of yea ...
" (Leitch) – 3:34 #"
Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness) "Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)" is a song by Donovan. He based it on "Can I Do It For You", a song by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy. The name "Gyp" refers to Donovan's best friend, Gyp Mills, known then as Gypsy Dave, and is one of many songs t ...
" (Leitch) – 3:13 #"
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 ...
" (Leitch) – 2:46


2002 Sanctuary Records/Castle Records version

Track listing as on the original UK version plus the following bonus tracks: #"Universal Soldier" (Sainte-Marie)  – 2:15 #"The Ballad of a Crystal Man" (Leitch)  – 3:19 #"The War Drags On" (Softley)  – 3:44 #"Do You Hear Me Now" (Jansch)  – 1:50 #"Turquoise" (Leitch)  – 3:31 #"Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)" (Leitch)  – 3:08


Personnel

*Donovan – banjo, guitar, harmonica, vocals *Skip Alan (Alan Skipper) – drums * Brian Locking – bass guitar *
Harold McNair Harold McNair (5 November 1931 – 7 March 1971) was a Jamaican-born saxophonist and flautist. Early life McNair was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He attended the Alpha Boys School under the tutelage of Vincent Tulloch, while playing with Jo ...
 – flute *
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 re ...
 – guitar, twelve-string guitar *Peter Eden – producer *Terry Kennedy – producer *Ren Grevatt – liner notes


References


External links


''Fairytale'' – Donovan Unofficial Site
{{Authority control 1965 albums Donovan albums Pye Records albums Sanctuary Records albums Castle Communications albums Sequel Records albums Hickory Records albums