DONOVAN  

" HMS DONOVAN "

ORIGINAL 1971 FIRST UK PRESSING

 MATT LAMINATED GATEFOLD DOUBLE ALBUM

WITH "HMS DONOVAN" POSTER INSERT

EXCELLENT  CONDITION.....NR MINT ...

DAWN DNLD 4001/2

STEREO

Matrix Numbers

DNLD 4001 A-1 *T

DNLD 4001 B-1 *T

DNLD 4001 C-1 *T

DNLD 4001 D-1 *T

AN ORIGINAL COPY OF THIS CLASSIC FOLK ALBUM IN EXCELLENT CONDITION ...NR MINT!!

ALBUM ON THE MUCH SOUGHT AFTER DAWN LABEL ..(RISING SUN ORANGE LABELS)

 135 GRAM VINYL PRESSINGS , LABELS ARE IN MINT CONDITION. 

INNER SLEEVES ARE ORIGINAL PAPER SLEEVES IN EXCELLENT CONDITION

 BOTH SIDES PLAY WITH A MINIMUM OF SURFACE NOISE OR STATIC ,

 THERE IS LITTLE OR NO DETERIORATION IN SOUND QUALITY ...

A BRILLIANT EXAMPLE :)

Gradings

Top & Bottom Edges: MINT

Right Edge(s), and Type: Clean, mostly very sharp with barely any wear

Spine and Text: MINT: solid and square with no wear, text is unworn, very bold and clear.

Corners:  MINT

The Inner Sleeve: EXCELLENT

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: EXCELLENT . very clean, shiny, intense black and quite solidly pressed.There are a few very light scatches here and there ,but these don't impeed the sound quality :) 

Album Played For Grading: EXCELLENT...Yes. I play from the beginning to end in the studio to check , this record is in excellent  condition ,there are a few crackles here and there but overall sound quality is brilliant ...

Sound Quality and Audio Grading: Strong, distortion-free sound, all frequencies are sharp and clear - sound quality is very high with a wide dynamic range and very full, detailed sound. Both channels here are clean and sharp, This record has been played and has been well stored and looked after within a non-smoking environment.

Overall, this is an excellent nr mint example  – records, cover and inners .

TRACKLISTING

SIDE 1

1.The Walrus And The Carpenter

2.Jabberwocky

3.The Seller Of Stars

4.Lost Time

5.The Little White Road

6. The Star

SIDE 2

1.Coulter's Candy

2.The Road

3.Things To Wear

4.The Owl and the Pussycat

5.Homesickness

6.Fishes In Love

7.Mr Wind

8.Wynken Blynken and Nod

2.The Pee Song

3.The Voyage of the Moon

4.The Unicorn

5.Lord of the Dance

6.Little Ben

7.Can Ye Dance

1.In An Old Fashioned Picture Book

2.The Song Of wandering Actions

3.A Funny Man

4.Lord Of The Reedy River

5.Henry Martin

6.Queen Mab

7.La Moora

ALBUM BLURB

  Anyone who likes the Donovan of "Sunshine Superman" or "Mellow Yellow" will probably want to ignore this album -- but anyone who liked the Donovan of "Colours," "Turquoise," or "Poor Cow," or Gift From a Flower to a Garden, will have to track it down, because they'll find it essential. 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.

Shipping & Packaging

UK

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