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DONOVAN

An icon of flower power who emerged as a folksinger but later gained hits like "Sunshine Superman" with bright psychedelic pop. Upon his emergence during the mid-'60s, Donovan was anointed "Britain's answer to Bob Dylan," a facile but largely unfounded comparison which compromised the Scottish folk-pop troubadour's own unique vision. Where the thrust of Dylan's music remains its bleak introspection and bitter realism, Donovan fully embraced the wide-eyed optimism of the flower power movement, his ethereal, ornate songs radiating a mystical beauty and childlike wonder; for better or worse, his recordings remain quintessential artifacts of the psychedelic era, capturing the peace and love idealism of their time to perfection

"FAIRYTALE"

[Fairytale is Donovan's second album. It was first released in the United Kingdom on October 22, 1965 through Pye Records (catalog number NPL 18128). The U.S. version of Fairytale was released by Hickory Records (catalog number LPM 127 [monaural] / LPS 127 [stereo]) in November 1965 with a slightly different set of songs.]

tracklisting

Side A: COLOURS - TO TRY FOR THE SUN - SUNNY GOODGE STREET

OH DEED I DO - CIRCUS OF SOUR - SUMMER DAY REFLECTION SONG

Side B: CANDY MAN - JERSEY THURSDAY - BELATED FORGIVENESS PLEA

BALLAD OF A CRYSTAL MAN - THE LITTLE TIN SOLDIER - BALLAD OF GERALDINE

1965     LP     PYE RECORDS       NPL 18128   MONO

MADE IN ENGLAND    ORIGINAL PRESSING

LAMINATED SINGLE COVER with FLIPBACK + COMPANY INNER SLEEVE

NOTES: Different in having an additional electric guitar credit for Shawn Philips on

back cover for "Song With Your Name". A track which isn't on the album.

Released on a plum colored Pye label

Comes in a front-laminated flipback sleeve

"Songs For Sunshine People"

Not to be confused with another "Fairytale" version different in not having an additional electric guitar credit 

for Shawn Philips on back cover for "Song With Your Name". 

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

Other / Runout (on both sides, Etched UK purchase tax code ): KT

LABEL: PYE - PLUM LABEL w/LOGO at LEFT - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: NPL 18128      

Catalog on labels: NPL.18128   NPL.18128-A / NPL.18128  NPL.18128-B

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped):  NPL 18128 A2 △H 2    (Etched): KT   I   I\I

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): NPL 18128 B2 △H 1    (Etched): KT   I   I

On labels: top rim "All rights of the manufacturers................Prohibited"

bottom rim "Made in England"

Recording First Published 1965

Produced by Terry Kennedy and Eden-Stephens

An Iver Recording

(on Side A): *Musical Direction Terry Kennedy

Rights Society / Publishing: Southern, Pied Piper, Copyright Control, Paragon

On Back Sleeve: Songs For Sunshine People

Tracklist & Credits

© Pye Records Ltd., 1965; Distributed By Pye Records (Sales) Ltd.,

A.T.V. House, Gt. Cumberland Place, London W.1.    "PYE" is the trademark.......England.

Printed and made by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.  Patents pending

grading

RECORD VG+ but (please, read above description) 

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Donovan's second album found the Scottish folkie in possession of his own voice, a style of earnest, occasionally mystical musings indebted neither to Woody Guthrie nor Bob Dylan. True, Fairytale's highlights -- "Sunny Goodge Street," "Jersey Thursday," and "The Summer Day Reflection Song" -- use a sense of impressionism pioneered by Dylan, but Donovan flipped Dylan's weariness on its head. His persona is the wistful hippie poet, continually moving on down the road, but never bitter about the past. The folkie "Colours," already a hit before the album's release, is also here (though without Donovan's harmonica). A few of his songs are inconsequential and tossed-off ("Oh Deed I Do," "Circus of Sour"), but a few of these ("Candy Man" especially) succeed too, thanks to Donovan's effervescent delivery...(AllMusic)