Always love some Donovan, Hurdy Gurdy was a medieval instrument that had a crank. It's pure psych folk from Donovan as he was want to do lol. Was it really Jimmy Page on guitar?
It was a very innovative sound at the time. Nobody else had a song that sounded like that. I have always appreciated this song and the message of this song is innocuous enough, but after watching the Zodiac movie with Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey, Jr. and Mark Ruffalo, the song affected a sense of spookiness to me afterwards. FYI, the actress Ione Skye is Donovan's daughter.
This is by far my favorite Donovan song. Well, this one and a close second- Atlantis. Please do Atlantis. You'll have no regrets, man! And a little history lesson.
This music brings back great memories. Donovan is a Scottish musician & songwriter from the 60's who developed an eclectic & distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop & psychedelic rock. My favorite song by him is "Jennifer Juniper" from 1968. He had a lot of great hits such as "Catch The Wind", "Colours", "Universal Soldier", "Mellow Yellow", "Sunshine Superman", "Season Of The Witch", "Atlantis" etc. Interesting note: He was friends with the Beatles & taught John & Paul a finger-picking guitar style that they used in some of their songs.
So glad you hit this one and loved seeing you appreciate it as you did! It is such a great and cool song! Thanks for the background info on it, as always. ☮
The songs "Lelana," "Colours" Wear Your Love Like Heaven," and "Catch The Wind (1969 Version)" are all fantastic songs that showcase his lyrical genius.
There’s a wonderful documentary film of Bob Dylan’s 1965 Tour of England called “Don’t Look Back” you ought to check out. Dylan reads about Donovan, asks about him, and finally meets him, and they play music together in Dylan’s hotel room and become friends. There’s more to it than that. It’s fly on the wall perspective and fascinating to me.
Donovan had many different styles in his music, from the folkie Catch the Wind, to the jazzed up Barabajagal, to the mysterious Atlantis with a repeated chorus that matches Hey Jude. Take your pick.
I'm so lucky to be an old dude. In the late 70's early 80s Dobovan did fund raising for the Yucca Valley High school in the gym. Often his friends would be a special guest. Donavan put on a great show every time.
Donovan, "the Scottish minstrel of love", was the embodiment of flower power. The lyrics on this are subtle poetry and the guitar and drums kick ass. A tamboura is a drone sitar which the Beatles popularized. A hurdy-gurdy was a medieval instrument with a keyboard, strings, and a crank. Turning the crank caused a wheel to vibrate the strings and the keys modulated the unique sound. You sometimes see them in old pictures of "organ grinders", usually with monkeys. I don't think they were commonly used to play 'songs of l..o..o..ve" but what do I know. This song has held up so well for all these years. I still love it
Sting did his own "Hurdy Gurdy Man" in 2009. Previously, he stunned and confused everyone by playing the hurdy-gurdy in a performance at the 2004 Oscars ceremony.
I'm sure many others have pointed this out - Jimmy Page on lead guitar, not long before Led Zeppelin. He was still doing occasional studio work besides playing with The Yardbirds. The drumming always reminded me of Mitch Mitchell, with all that snare work.
I was 12 years old when this song came out on the radio. Yes, it was different. Took my mind someplace else, as so much music did back in the late 60's.
A fine bit of trippy psychedelic folk-rock! Two personal favourite Donovan songs - "Sunshine Superman" and "Barabajagal" (recorded with the Jeff Beck Group). Another goody is "Sunny South Kensington", but you'd need a primer course of 60s cultural icons to understand that one! Also, if you like Donovan, try listening to the band Traffic - "Paper Sun" would be a good starting point. PS - MacLeod is pronounced "MacCloud" :)
This song features collaborations with Jimmy Page, John P Jones (bass), The album credits John Bonham for percussion on the song "Hurdy Gurdy Man" and Clem Cattini as the drummer and Alan Parker guitar.
The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin (or Nyckelharpa) bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to those of a violin. Melodies are played on a keyboard that presses tangents-small wedges, typically made of wood or metal-against one or more of the strings to change their pitch. Like most other acoustic stringed instruments, it has a sound board and hollow cavity to make the vibration of the strings audible. The instrument came into a new public consciousness when Donovan released his hit pop song "Hurdy Gurdy Man" in 1968. Although the song does not use a hurdy-gurdy, the repeated reference to the instrument in the song's lyrics sparked curiosity and interest among young people, eventually resulting in an annual hurdy-gurdy music festival in the Olympic Peninsula area of the state of Washington each September. - from Wikipedia th-cam.com/video/gYJg9cLk1us/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for the good explanation ! I’m familiar with it because a friend made one in college wood shop. When he played it as a street performer people always would say “It’s The Hurdy Gurdy Man ! “.
I wondered how the sound was produced from turning a crank. How does the crank motion alter which tangents operate? Do they just program in a song like a player piano?
Donovan taught John Lennon how to do Travis picking in Rishikesh. John learned it very quicky, not an easy thing to do, and wrote 'Dear Prudence' and ''Julia' very soon after using that technique. 'Dear Prudence' was about Mia Farrow's sister, who was also in Rishikesh during that time.
Now watch the first ten minutes of Zodiac, just to get a different perspective. I'm not saying that it was Donovan's intent to create something so sinister and macabre, but it's an interpretation that's difficult for some of us to ignore. Once you've seen and heard it, it's impossible to forget.
Of course -I first heard this as a teenager but I interpreted the Hurdy Gurdy man as music itself or musicians and how music can soothe humanity and remind us of beauty and love
.....and not a hurdy gurdy played in the song! If you'd like to see/hear a hurdy gurdy played then check out the video "Mummers' Dance" by Loreena McKennitt - the official video. I think you'll love it!
a song that will make you FEEL like your dropping acid......fun fact. Donovan actually credits himself with teaching the Beatles guitar. No one has ever disputed that.
You can definitely hear the influence of going to India and practicing transcendental meditation, which was much easier to do with friends and acid…which they all did constantly. lol. Say what you want about LSD, but it gave us GREAT music.
YAY!!! **Luvit** freakin **Donovan** **Cutie** **Beautiful** & **MyJimmyPageGeniusWizardBabe** played guitar on this! Extra **YAYness** **Edit** Oh had to pause to say ya gotta check out **Small Faces** sometime! **Please** & just omg i just **Luvd** how it seems most musicians back then anyway would lend themselves to others like all the time in dif ways like the part bout **MyBeautifulSoulGeorgeHarrisonBabe** how freakin **Awesome** is that?!? ya hear the stories like that all the time what a **KickAss* time for **FantasticalMusic** WoW **LOVE** how much ya **LUV** it! suggestion "Catch The Wind"
Great song, one of his best, with a crunching, rocking vibe that sounds like Jimmy Page on guitar, wether it is or not. This tune is a rush whenever I hear it and gives such a late 60s psychedelic feel. 🎸
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This song is what one creates when one is gifted musically and tripping balls.
Love Donovan!! I think he wrote some of the most trippy psychedelic music of that time!
Always love some Donovan, Hurdy Gurdy was a medieval instrument that had a crank. It's pure psych folk from Donovan as he was want to do lol. Was it really Jimmy Page on guitar?
Yeah. And John Bonham on drums.
@@kentclark6420 I’ve heard that there’s some dispute about either one of them being on this recording. It may sound like them but I heard it’s not.
@@kentclark6420 I’ve heard that there’s some dispute about either one of them being on this recording. It may sound like them but I heard it’s not.
Damn, I remember when music was just hard-core fun! His song "Atlantis" is another classic you should listen to.
100 %
It was a very innovative sound at the time. Nobody else had a song that sounded like that. I have always appreciated this song and the message of this song is innocuous enough, but after watching the Zodiac movie with Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey, Jr. and Mark Ruffalo, the song affected a sense of spookiness to me afterwards. FYI, the actress Ione Skye is Donovan's daughter.
**Thank YOU!** i did not know that!
Sunshine Superman is another great Donovan song.
Shawn has already listened to that.
With a guitar solo by Jimmy Page. I believe John Paul Jones plays bass on that one as well.
This is by far my favorite Donovan song. Well, this one and a close second- Atlantis. Please do Atlantis. You'll have no regrets, man! And a little history lesson.
Psychedelic perfection.
If you want to hear what I personally consider the best Donovan song 🎵 try listening to “Barabajagal”
This music brings back great memories. Donovan is a Scottish musician & songwriter from the 60's who developed an eclectic & distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop & psychedelic rock. My favorite song by him is "Jennifer Juniper" from 1968. He had a lot of great hits such as "Catch The Wind", "Colours", "Universal Soldier", "Mellow Yellow", "Sunshine Superman", "Season Of The Witch", "Atlantis" etc. Interesting note: He was friends with the Beatles & taught John & Paul a finger-picking guitar style that they used in some of their songs.
Led Zeppelin uses a guest Hurdy Gurdy man on live versions of their song HANGMAN! Check it out!❤
Favorite Donovan song , those drum rolls!
another song by Donovan is Season of the Witch and this song is on the soundtrack of the Johnny Deep movie Dark Shadows
So glad you hit this one and loved seeing you appreciate it as you did! It is such a great and cool song! Thanks for the background info on it, as always. ☮
His biggest hit - the guitarists on it were doing Very innovative stuff
The songs "Lelana," "Colours" Wear Your Love Like Heaven," and "Catch The Wind (1969 Version)" are all fantastic songs that
showcase his lyrical genius.
There’s a wonderful documentary film of Bob Dylan’s 1965 Tour of England called “Don’t Look Back” you ought to check out. Dylan reads about Donovan, asks about him, and finally meets him, and they play music together in Dylan’s hotel room and become friends. There’s more to it than that. It’s fly on the wall perspective and fascinating to me.
Great reaction! Atlantis is a really good song! Would love to see you react to that! 😀 Thank you Shawn!
Great song and reaction😊
I like to think of Donovan in this era as Mello-delic. 😊 Loved him since I stole "Sunshine Superman" from my older brother back in 1967.
Donovan had many different styles in his music, from the folkie Catch the Wind, to the jazzed up Barabajagal, to the mysterious Atlantis with a repeated chorus that matches Hey Jude. Take your pick.
He also has those Hare Krishna-type sounding songs.
I'm so lucky to be an old dude. In the late 70's early 80s Dobovan did fund raising for the Yucca Valley High school in the gym. Often his friends would be a special guest. Donavan put on a great show every time.
Donovan, "the Scottish minstrel of love", was the embodiment of flower power. The lyrics on this are subtle poetry and the guitar and drums kick ass. A tamboura is a drone sitar which the Beatles popularized. A hurdy-gurdy was a medieval instrument with a keyboard, strings, and a crank. Turning the crank caused a wheel to vibrate the strings and the keys modulated the unique sound. You sometimes see them in old pictures of "organ grinders", usually with monkeys. I don't think they were commonly used to play 'songs of l..o..o..ve" but what do I know. This song has held up so well for all these years. I still love it
Sting did his own "Hurdy Gurdy Man" in 2009. Previously, he stunned and confused everyone by playing the hurdy-gurdy in a performance at the 2004 Oscars ceremony.
I'm sure many others have pointed this out - Jimmy Page on lead guitar, not long before Led Zeppelin. He was still doing occasional studio work besides playing with The Yardbirds. The drumming always reminded me of Mitch Mitchell, with all that snare work.
Alan Parker on lead, Clem Cattini on drums, John Paul Jones on bass and session arrangement.
I was 12 years old when this song came out on the radio. Yes, it was different. Took my mind someplace else, as so much music did back in the late 60's.
Great reaction. Psychedelic fun. 1968......What a year!
Some chemicals could have been involved that clouded everyone's memories of who was there. It was the 60's man.
"If you remember the sixties, you weren't there" :)
So good❤
I believe I still have that album! I'll have to check😊
Great album and apparently rather hard to find nowadays. Hold on to your copy.
A fine bit of trippy psychedelic folk-rock! Two personal favourite Donovan songs - "Sunshine Superman" and "Barabajagal" (recorded with the Jeff Beck Group). Another goody is "Sunny South Kensington", but you'd need a primer course of 60s cultural icons to understand that one! Also, if you like Donovan, try listening to the band Traffic - "Paper Sun" would be a good starting point. PS - MacLeod is pronounced "MacCloud" :)
This song features collaborations with Jimmy Page, John P Jones (bass), The album credits John Bonham for percussion on the song "Hurdy Gurdy Man" and Clem Cattini as the drummer and Alan Parker guitar.
Love this freakin band. Grooves 60s vibe.
The drumming throughout, especially at the end!
Another great Scottish singer song writer
After listening to all of Donovan's big hits and there are many, listen to the entire "A Gift From a Flower To a Garden" triple album for a real trip.
I dig the electric guitar in this one.
The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin (or Nyckelharpa) bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to those of a violin. Melodies are played on a keyboard that presses tangents-small wedges, typically made of wood or metal-against one or more of the strings to change their pitch. Like most other acoustic stringed instruments, it has a sound board and hollow cavity to make the vibration of the strings audible.
The instrument came into a new public consciousness when Donovan released his hit pop song "Hurdy Gurdy Man" in 1968. Although the song does not use a hurdy-gurdy, the repeated reference to the instrument in the song's lyrics sparked curiosity and interest among young people, eventually resulting in an annual hurdy-gurdy music festival in the Olympic Peninsula area of the state of Washington each September.
- from Wikipedia th-cam.com/video/gYJg9cLk1us/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for the good explanation ! I’m familiar with it because a friend made one in college wood shop. When he played it as a street performer people always would say “It’s The Hurdy Gurdy Man ! “.
I wondered how the sound was produced from turning a crank. How does the crank motion alter which tangents operate? Do they just program in a song like a player piano?
I've seen one used in Loreena Mckennitt's music.
…. Loving your musical journey man, ❤️ all these songs you react too are the foundation of what music evolved too. 🫶🏻
Check out Atlantis
Just learned this week what a Hurdy Gurdy was when Spencer Tracy was playing one in very old movie I was watching 1937s Captians Courageous
Great sounding record ! My favorite Donovan hit. If you haven't seen it yet, check out the movie Zodiac from 2007. This song is featured in it.
This song added so much to one of the best years of my young life, 1968. It remains one of my favorites of all time.
Donovan taught John Lennon how to do Travis picking in Rishikesh. John learned it very quicky, not an easy thing to do, and wrote 'Dear Prudence' and ''Julia' very soon after using that technique. 'Dear Prudence' was about Mia Farrow's sister, who was also in Rishikesh during that time.
Now watch the first ten minutes of Zodiac, just to get a different perspective. I'm not saying that it was Donovan's intent to create something so sinister and macabre, but it's an interpretation that's difficult for some of us to ignore.
Once you've seen and heard it, it's impossible to forget.
Of course -I first heard this as a teenager but I interpreted the Hurdy Gurdy man as music itself or musicians and how music can soothe humanity and remind us of beauty and love
also by donovon "wear your love like heaven " "atlantis" " first there is a mountain "
Check out Get Thy Bearings, as well as, The River Song all from the same album, HGM.
One of my favorites from Donovan another is Catch the Wind
...first there is a montain,then there is no mountain, then there is...
.....and not a hurdy gurdy played in the song!
If you'd like to see/hear a hurdy gurdy played then check out the video "Mummers' Dance" by Loreena McKennitt - the official video. I think you'll love it!
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant also toured with a hurdy gurdy player back in the 1990’s.
great find!!!! my elementary school days.
a song that will make you FEEL like your dropping acid......fun fact. Donovan actually credits himself with teaching the Beatles guitar. No one has ever disputed that.
1968 ~ LSD ~ Headphones ~ What a trip!!!
Next - "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" bu Donovan ❤
Great song!
Brings back good memories.
I remember this when I was a little kid in the 60's.
This is an excellent album in general. I would suggest listening to the entire thing when you have the chance.
The use of this song in the movie Zodiac is perfection.
This is one of Donovan's heavier songs, it slaps, good one Shawn.
Jimmy Page did play on it but his track was erased so no, he's not on the finished version. Check out "Atlantis".
that sounds like john bonham drumming of led zeppelin
You can definitely hear the influence of going to India and practicing transcendental meditation, which was much easier to do with friends and acid…which they all did constantly. lol. Say what you want about LSD, but it gave us GREAT music.
Oh yeah my favorite too. India was influencing the Beatles and he was close to the Beatles.
Saw Donovan J.Giels Bob Seger and YES in Buffalo, Rich Stadium
I think the vocal effect he is using is a tremelo which quickly turns the volume up and down.
YAY!!! **Luvit** freakin **Donovan** **Cutie** **Beautiful** & **MyJimmyPageGeniusWizardBabe** played guitar on this! Extra **YAYness** **Edit** Oh had to pause to say ya gotta check out **Small Faces** sometime! **Please** & just omg i just **Luvd** how it seems most musicians back then anyway would lend themselves to others like all the time in dif ways like the part bout **MyBeautifulSoulGeorgeHarrisonBabe** how freakin **Awesome** is that?!? ya hear the stories like that all the time what a **KickAss* time for **FantasticalMusic** WoW **LOVE** how much ya **LUV** it! suggestion "Catch The Wind"
I think the song he did with Alice Cooper is pretty good. Billion Dollar Babies.
😊❤
Rolly Poley Hurdy gurdy. Don’t do drugs kids. 😂
The Trippest song EVER !!!!!!!!!!! PEACE !
Clem Cattini machine gun drumming is amazing .
I heard years ago that Jimmy Page played Lead Guitar on this. Jimmy was a highly demanded session player before forming Led Zeppelin.
Alan Parker was lead guitarist on this song
best reaction presentation on all of youtube. LOVE.
Psychedelic.
Great song, one of his best, with a crunching, rocking vibe that sounds like Jimmy Page on guitar, wether it is or not. This tune is a rush whenever I hear it and gives such a late 60s psychedelic feel. 🎸
was a special time, not all good, not all bad, just was...
Song is about Marharishi 😊
Clara Clairvoyant & Riki Tiki Tavi are two more great tunes by Donavon
That is none other than Led Zeppelin playing here. Earning money for studio time for zeppelin 1
☮️💙💙💙🔥🔥😎
Suggest: Donovan “Sand and Foam”
It's a mess of fucking brilliance, is what it is.
That Jimmy Page on Guitar !
John Bonham on 🥁🥁 Jimmy Page on guitar 🎉👍🏻😎🔥
Clem Cattini on drums, Alan Parker on guitar
Try his cover of Co'dine.
Ask Alexa to play this and the playlist that follows is classic 60s B side RR
That is one bad ass song...
There is another version which includes a verse by then Beatle George Harrison
Huh? Never heard that one. Is it available for listening anywhere?
@@MsAppassionata there is a live version on TH-cam that Donovan does.
@@MsAppassionata Donovan-Hurdy Gurdy Man (2007) it's the third verse
@@jeromemilne561 Thanks.
Check out the band man
Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham all played on this.
Donovan is not unlike Jack White or Jack Black.
I always think of him as a happier Nick Drake.
@@jamesdignanmusic2765 He could have been one of these things first. Rest in peace, young sad genius, Nick.
Jimmy Page on lead guitar.
I have always believed he was singing about Jesus.
It’s like an accordion??