Catch the Wind

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"Catch the Wind"
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Single by Donovan
from the album What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid
B-side Why Do You Treat Me Like You Do? [1]
Released28 February 1965 (UK) [2] [3] [4] [5]
April 1965 (US) [6]
Recorded1965
Genre Folk
Length2:21 (Side A)
2:57 (Side B)
Label Pye 7N.15801 (UK) [7]
Hickory 45-1309 (US) [6]
Songwriter(s) Donovan Leitch
Producer(s) Terry Kennedy, Peter Eden, Geoff Stephens
Donovan singles chronology
"Catch the Wind"
(1965)
"Colours"
(1965)

"Catch the Wind" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. [5] Pye Records released "Catch the Wind" backed with "Why Do You Treat Me Like You Do?" [1] as Donovan's debut release (Pye 7N.15801) in the United Kingdom on 28 February 1965. [2] [3] [4] [5] The single reached No. 4 in the United Kingdom singles chart. [8] Hickory Records released the single in the United States in April 1965 (Hickory 45-1309), [6] [9] where it reached No. 23 in the United States Billboard Hot 100. [10]

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In May 1965, Pye Records released a different version of "Catch the Wind" on Donovan's debut LP record album What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid (NPL.18117) [11] (retitled Catch the Wind in the US). While the single version featured vocal echo and a string section, the album version lacked those elements and instead featured Donovan playing harmonica.

Cash Box described it as a "medium-paced, folk-styled low-down bluesey romancer," with a Bob Dylan-like vocal. [6] Record World likewise described it as "Dylanesque." [12]

When Epic Records was compiling Donovan's Greatest Hits in 1968, the label was either unable or unwilling to secure the rights to the original recordings of "Catch the Wind" and Donovan's follow-up single, "Colours". Donovan re-recorded both songs for the album, with a full backing band including Big Jim Sullivan playing guitar and Mickie Most producing.

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References

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  2. 1 2 Cleave, Maureen (1965a), p. 7.
  3. 1 2 Cleave, Maureen (1965b), p. 6.
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