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Donovan - Wear Your Love Like Heaven
Performer:
Donovan
Title:

Wear Your Love Like Heaven

Category:
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Short-Info
Label: Speakers Corner Records ‎– BN 26349
Type: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country: Germany
Date of released: 17 Feb 2017
Category: Rock
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Rating:
4.6 / 5
Votes:
535

Tracklist

1 wear your love like heaven 2:26
2 mad john's escape 2:16
3 Skip- a - long sam 2:23
4 sun 3:13
5 there was a time 1:59
6 oh gosh 1:42
7 little boy in corduroy 2:33
8 under the greenwood tree 1:53
9 the land of doesn't have to be 2:32
10 someone singing 2:44

Notes

2017 Speakers Corner reissue of 1967 Epic release. Stereo Verison Epic BN 26349

"Wear Your Love Like Heaven" - Donovan (voc, g); Mike O'Neil (org, p, hpd); Eric Leese (g); Harold McNair (fl); Mike Carr (vib); Jack Bruce, Cliff Barton (b); Keith Webb (dr); Candy John Carr (cga, bgo)

Donovan Philip Leitch may well share a proletarian origin with several of the folk bards of his time. But comparisons with the top dog Dylan have worn thin and are not worth the effort since Donovan never was neither vocally nor thematically brusque – and moreover he created his own standards. He quickly converted the pacifist message of "The Universal Soldier" into positive thoughts and his poetry was concerned with history, sagas, myths and magic. »Lord, kiss me once more, fill me with song« he prays in "Wear Your Love Like Heaven", and if this makes you sentimental then you are on the right wavelength. However, the »seller of hope« (Donovan on Donovan) triggers off a few psychedelic nerve tracts: whether it be a personal experience in echo form ("Sun") or the 'sprechgesang' and whistling of a vocal group ("Little Boy In Corduroy") – light, gentle but perceptibly formed. That Donovan set far more than cheerful texts to the guitar is proven by the use of sawing stationary sound of the organ, low-register string passages and subtle rhythms, which raises his song repertoire miles above routine. A nice 'folksy guy' who merely loves the sun, moon and stars just cannot exist in times of war.

This Speakers Corner LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head. All royalties and mechanical rights have been paid.

Recording: October 1967 at CBS Studios London by Michael Ross Trevor
Production: Ashley Kozak

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 4260019715265

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
BN 26349 Donovan Wear Your Love Like Heaven ‎(LP, Album) Epic BN 26349 US 1967
LP 5431 Donovan Wear Your Love Like Heaven ‎(LP, Album, Mono, RE) Sundazed Music LP 5431 US 2013
ALD 8101 Donovan Wear Your Love Like Heaven ‎(LP, Album) CBS ALD 8101 South Africa 1967
BN 26349 Donovan Wear Your Love Like Heaven ‎(LP, Album, Ter) Epic BN 26349 US 1967
ELP3555, ELP-3555 Donovan Wear Your Love Like Heaven ‎(LP, Album, Mono) Epic, Epic ELP3555, ELP-3555 Australia 1967