It’s time for a wee musical interlude and as Donovan was given a lifetime achievement award in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards earlier in the week, I thought it would be nice to hear my favourite song of his, Jennifer Juniper, a lovely tune.
Donovan was born in Glasgow.
Love love love Donovan. Season of the Witch was my all time favorite (tho Jools did a great cover with the Brian Auger Trinity. Showing my age, much?)
Dated a positively awful fellow in college just because he looked like Donovan, played guitar and sang beautifully. Didn’t last, obviously. In retrospect he probably looked more like Frank Zappa.
Pearl,
Sorry about that hour, but it sounds like you enjoyed yourself! I had completely forgotten about Lalena, I don’t think it got into the charts here, so you got your own back as I had to get on You Tube again to listen to it! He has a sweet, ethereal quality to his voice.
My brother was a big Frank Zappa fan, at full blast. Scary moustache. Hawkwind was even worse!
And Catch the Wind! How could I forget that one. But the sweetest that lovely voice ever sounded was on Lalena. That’s what caught my heart.
You just cost me an hour in that great black hole of time called YouTube!!