A Gift From A Flower To A Garden

Folk This
It All Comes Round Again
John Tams
The Reckoning
Muckram Wakes
A Map Of Derbyshire
The Red Lion
A Bit Of A Song And Dance
New Victory Band
One More Dance And Then
Kate Rusby
Hourglass
Salisbury Folk
From The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs
The Old Hat Concert Party
Sunday 13th May 1969
Seth Lakeman
Kitty Jay
Kitty Jay Lyrics
Freedom Fields
Freedom Fields Lyrics
The White Hare
The New St. George
The Hard Times Of Old England
Prince Heathen
Frost And Fire
Bright Phoebus
History and Companion
Morning Way
Spindle
Polly On The Shore
Western Approaches
Damien Barber and The Demon Barbers
The North Star Grassman and the Ravens
Cropredy's Like That
The Garden of Jane Delawney
Nic Jones
Penguin Eggs
The Noah's Ark Trap
Bandoggs
Bandoggs: The Record
Shirley Collins
Anthems In Eden
Shelagh McDonald
Stargazer
Music From The Unbroken Circle
Gryphon
Glastonbury Carol
Mr Fox
Mr. Fox : The Album
Tiny Tin Lady
The Sound of Requiem
martha tilston
ropeswing
Moseley Folk Festival 2006
Moseley Folk Festival 2006: The Folks
Witness
ROOTS
Countrylife
Countrylife II
The Falmouth Packet / Haul Away Joe
The Setting / Mary From Dungloe
From Clare To Here
A Gift From A Flower To A Garden
1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Coope, Boyes & Simpson
Christmas Truce / Kerstbestand 1914
Passchendaele Suite
A Garland of Carols
Fire and Sleet and Candlelight
Anne Briggs
Anne Briggs : Sing A Song For You
Oak
Welcome to Our Fair Plus
Make it Folky!
A Place Called England
Ragged Heroes
Dancing at Whitsun
The Lark In The Morning
Thomas The Rhymer
Gaudete
Carthy and Swarbrick
What Time Is It Eccles?

A Gift From A Flower To A Garden1968
Pye Records NPL 20000 1968

A Gift From A Flower To A Garden
Donovan
Pye Records NPL 20000 (monaural)
                    NSPL 20000 (stereo)
 
Producers: Donovan, Mickie Most
Engineer: Michael Ross Trevor
Executive Producer: Ashley Kozak
 
Mick Taylor (Illustrations)
Sid Maurer (Art Direction)
Karl Ferris (Photo Design)
John Tobler (Liner Notes)

All tracks by Donovan Leitch, except where noted.
 
Lyrics are included with the album

This, the fifth album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan, and marks the first double album of his career and one of the first box sets in rock music. It was released in the United States in December of 1967 (Epic Records L2N 6071 (monaural) / B2N 171 (stereo)) and in the United Kingdom on April 16, 1968 (Pye Records NPL 20000 (monaural) / NSPL 20000 (stereo)). In December of 1967, Epic Records released each of the two records from A Gift from a Flower to a Garden as separate albums in the US. The first record was released as
Wear Your Love Like Heaven, and the second record was released as For Little Ones. This was done to allow budgeting for the double album package, which included a folder of the printed lyrics to the second disc with artwork, and a cover featuring an infrared photo of Donovan (requiring six colour separations for printing, instead of the usual four separations). The back cover photo was a standard one, and depicted Donovan visiting with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

In the album's liner notes, Donovan explained his purpose in creating two rather different discs (one for the present generation, and the other for the dawning generation)

Donovan: guitar,vocals, harmonica, whistling
Jack Bruce (Bass) 
Harold McNair (Flute),
Ken Baldock (Bass), (String Bass),
Cliff Barton (Bass), Bass (Electric),
Candy John Carr (Percussion) (Bongos) (Conga),
Mike Carr (Vocals (Background),  (Vibraphone),
Tony Carr (Conga), (Drums),  (Bells)
(Finger Cymbals), (Turkish Finger Cymbals),
Eric Leese (Guitar), (Guitar (Electric)
Mike O'Neil (Organ), (Piano),
(Harpsichord), (Keyboards), 
Keith Webb (Drums)

side 1

1. Wear Your Love Like Heaven – 2:27
 
2. Mad John's Escape – 2:20 
 
3.  Skip-a-long Sam – 2:26
 
4.  Sun – 3:17
 
5. There Was a Time – 2:02

side 2

1. Oh Gosh – 1:48
 
2. Little Boy in Corduroy – 2:34
 
3.  Under the Greenwood Tree
      (words by William Shakespeare,
       music by Donovan Leitch) – 1:58
 
4.  The Land of Doesn't Have to Be – 2:30
 
5.  Someone Singing – 3:07

side 3

1. Song of the Naturalist's Wife – 2:47
 
2. The Enchanted Gypsy – 3:21
 
3. Voyage into the Golden Screen
    – 3:15
 
4. Isle of Islay – 2:24
 
5. The Mandolin Man and His Secret
    – 3:35
 
6  Lay of the Last Tinker – 1:49

side 4

1. The Tinker and the Crab – 2:55
 
2. Widow with Shawl (A Portrait)
     – 3:02
 
3. The Lullaby of Spring – 3:27
 
4. The Magpie – 1:31
 
5. Starfish-on-the-Toast – 2:45
 
6.  Epistle to Derroll – 5:44

Donovan

Wear Your Love Like Heaven 1967
Epic Records LN 24349 (monaural) / BN 26349 (stereo))

For The Little Ones 1967
Epic Records LN 24350 (monaural) / BN 26350 (stereo)

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