Covers of Donovan songs

I love Donovan but haven't heard that many covers of his songs. These are all I know of (would make a great comp) but there must be many more:

Get Thy Bearings — King Crimson
Try For The Sun — Lindsey Buckingham
Season of The Witch — Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger Trinity
Sunny Goodge Street — Judy Collins
Wear Your Love Like Heaven — Sarah McLachlan
Lalena — Deep Purple
Lord Of The Reedy River — Kate Bush
Hurdy Gurdy Man — Steve Hillage
Museum — Herman's Hermits

 

My wife's a fan of Courtney Love's version of "Season Of The Witch"....it is pretty wild....

 

Eric Burdon and the Animals did a fine version of "Hey Gyp"

Jefferson Airplane did "Fat Angel" on their live Bless It's Pointed Little Head album.

The Allman Brothers "Mountain Jam" comes from "First There Is A Mountain". The Grateful Dead used to quote this riff as well on ocassion during 1968-1970.

I really like Herman's Hermits "Museum" the best. You can tell it's a Donavan song without even looking at the credits.

 

Season of the Witch on SUPERSESSION

I might like alternatives to Donovan's version of ATLANTIS.

 

Mary Chapin Carpenter did a killer version of Mellow Yellow on the soundtrack of Steal This Movie.

 

Rickie Lee Jones - Sunshine Superman

 

Butthole Surfers - Hurdy Gurdy Man

 

I forgot to mention the amazing 'Donovan's Colours' by Van Dyke Parks.

 

Catch the Wind - Glen Campbell

Just heard that one the other day...

 

Husker Du-Sunshine Superman

 

Richard Thompson does an awesome "Season of the Witch" on the Crossing Jordan soundtrack.

 

There's a few on Mary Hopkin's Postcard.

Also springing to mind :

Sunshine Superman - The Standells
Catch The Wind - Paul Revere & The Raiders
The Pebble And The Man - Bridget St. John
Colours - Joan Baez
Sunny Goodge Street - St. Etienne; Marianne Faithfull
Try For The Sun - Hearts And Flowers
Superlungs - Terry Reid; Steve Marriott

I know I also have some garage band cover versions, including some that are in broken English...just can't think of them right now.

 

Luna -- Season of the Witch (on "I Shot Andy Warhol" Soundtrack)

 

One could probably compile a CD comp of just "Season of the Witch" covers. Vanilla Fudge did a version of this as well.

 

Dean Wareham also does a cover ("Colours", if memory serves) on his latest single (as 'Dean and Britta')

Galaxie 500 / Luna / Dean are just a great cover-tunes act. They have done tracks by 'composers' as diverse as Blondie, George Harrison, the Rutles, Serge Gainsbourg, Madonna, and Guns & Roses!

 

Deep Purple do a nice version of "Lalena" on their self-titled album from 1969.

Buck Owens does a version of "Catch the Wind" but I'm not sure it works well as a country song.

"Car Thief" by the Beastie Boys samples "Hurdy Gurdy Man"

Richie Havens does a nice version of "Wear Your Love Like Heaven"

 

So did Santa Esmeralda (don't laugh, I indeed mean a fine version). For you who do not know this band - it's a French disco outfit that covered many sixties songs, especially from the Animals (which may be the reason that they did Hey Gyp as well - see quote above). They had a few hits in the EU with their versions of Don't let me be misunderstood and House of the rising sun, among others. It's a sort of Spanish style disco, with strings, flamenco guitars and castagnettes. Believe me - it doesn't sound as bad as you think by this description.

Georgie Fame made a version of Mellow Yellow. It's on the Best of cd that I have.

 

There was a whole CD of Dono covers sometime in the '90s-- possibly called something like Island of Circles. I'll dig it out and post a track list.

Rick

 

The version of Catch the Wind by the Gosdin Brothers is a killer.

 

Thanks, I have that on a cd, so I will have to give it a closer listen. It's my favorite Donovan song, and I like it far better than most of his hippy-dippy stuff.

 

Joan Baez did a pretty good version of "Turquoise" on her album "Joan".

 

ahem... here come the amateurs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeT7suo358Y

-mk

 

To Try For The Sun an obscure Donovan song is covered by Lindsey Buckingham on his latest album.Great song,great cover.

 

Canadian singer Tom Northcott also covered "Sunny Goodge Street."

British songstress Bridget St. John did a version of "The Pebble and the Man" (aka "Happiness Runs").

 

Glen Campbell's cover of Universal Soldier is classic