Donovan - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1967-1968

Here's Volume 2 out of my five volumes of Donovan performing for the BBC.

After no BBC sessions for all of 1966 due to a record company dispute, Donovan resumed with another one in January 1967. The first three songs are from that. But that seems to be it for 1967, or at least all that has survived. 

The next four songs are also from 1967, but from the French TV show "Bouton Rouge." This show is a treasure trove of great performances from the 1960s, especially because the artists played live without an audience, just like BBC sessions. (If you search YouTube from "Bouton Rouge" and "1967" or "1968," you'll find all sorts of interesting music videos.)

After that, the song "Lullaby of Spring" is a unique 1968 performance, but one done for a TV documentary. So I don't know when it was recorded, though it was broadcast in November 1968. The rest of the songs are from either BBC radio or TV shows.

All the performances here are officially unreleased. The sound quality is very good throughout. Donovan's musical style was broadening, and one result of that is we see him playing with a backing band on a lot of these songs.

Once again, three of the songs suffer from the BBC DJs talking over the music (the ones with "[Edit]" in their names). But I used the X-Minus audio editing program to wipe out the vocals while keeping the underlying music.

Just like Volume 1, there are two bonus tracks. And just like Volume 1, they're perfectly fine in terms of sound quality, but they're bonus tracks because they're repeats of songs on this album (though different performances).

This album is 46 minutes long, not counting the two bonus tracks.

01 Mellow Yellow (Donovan)
02 The Tinker and the Crab (Donovan)
03 Hampstead Incident [Edit] (Donovan)
04 Sand and Foam (Donovan)
05 Sweet Beverly (Donovan)
06 Hey Gyp [Dig the Slowness] (Donovan)
07 Season of the Witch (Donovan)
08 The Lullaby of Spring (Donovan)
09 As I Recall It [Edit] (Donovan)
10 Young Girl Blues [Edit] (Donovan)
11 Lalena (Donovan)
12 There Is a Mountain (Donovan)
13 Jennifer Juniper (Donovan)
14 An Old Fashioned Picture Book (Donovan)
15 Where Is She (Donovan)

Lalena (Donovan)
The Tinker and the Crab (Donovan)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15110626/Donovn_1967-1968_BBSessionsVolume2_atse.zip.html

The cover art shows Donovan at the 1967 National Jazz and Blues Festival in Berkshire, Britain, in August 1967.