Minstrel Boy (album)

Minstrel Boy
Compilation album by Donovan
Released	July 1983
Recorded	1965
Genre	folk
Label	PRT Records
Producer	Terry Kennedy, Peter Eden, Geoff Stephens
Donovan chronology

Last updated April 25, 2019

Minstrel Boy is a compilation album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United Kingdom (PRT Records DOW 13) in July 1983 and did not chart.

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at 33 ¹⁄₃ rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Sharing a border with England to the southeast, Scotland is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, by the North Sea to the northeast and by the Irish Sea to the south. In addition to the mainland, situated on the northern third of the island of Great Britain, Scotland has over 790 islands, including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides.

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose, and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies.

History

In 1983, PRT Records issued another repackaging of Donovan's 1965 Pye Records recordings and titled it Minstrel Boy. To entice buyers, the album was released as a 10" LP.

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.

Side one

Side two

"Universal Soldier" (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
"Remember the Alamo" (Jane Bowers)
"Donna Donna" (Aaron Zeitlin, Sholom Secunda, Arthur S Kevess, Teddi Schwartz)
"Ballad of a Crystal Man"

External links

Minstrel Boy - Donovan Unofficial Site

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