Colours (1991 Donovan album)

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Colours
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Compilation album by Donovan
Released 1991
Recorded 1965
Genre folk
Label Del Rack
Producer Terry Kennedy, Peter Eden, Geoff Stephens
Donovan chronology
The Collection
(1990)		Colours
(1991)		 Island of Circles
(1992)

Colours is a compilation album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United States (Del Rack DRZ 921) in 1991.

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

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Singer-songwriter musician who writes, composes and sings

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Contents

History

In the early 1990s, audio engineer Steve Hoffman digitally remixed and remastered ten songs from the original master tapes of Donovan's 1965 Pye Records recordings. The songs were released as a compilation album entitled Colours, but bore no resemblance to the previous albums of the same title.

Steve Hoffman is a mastering engineer.

Pye Records was a British record label. Its best known artists were Lonnie Donegan (1956–69), Petula Clark (1957–71), The Searchers (1963–67), The Kinks (1964–71), Sandie Shaw (1964–71), Status Quo (1968–71) and Brotherhood of Man (1975–79). The label changed its name to PRT Records in 1980, before being briefly reactivated as Pye Records in 2006.

Track listing

All tracks by Donovan Leitch, except where noted.

  1. "Catch the Wind" – 2:53
  2. "Colours" – 2:43
  3. "Universal Soldier" (Buffy Sainte-Marie) – 2:11
  4. "Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)" – 3:06
  5. "Josie" – 3:24
  6. "Jersey Thursday" – 2:11
  7. "Belated Forgiveness Plea" – 2:54
  8. "Sunny Goodge Street" – 2:54
  9. "Ballad of Geraldine" – 4:40
  10. "The Little Tin Soldier" (Shawn Phillips) – 2:58


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