Donovan ‘Colours’

www.youtube.com Donovan (Donovan Phillips Leitch, born 10 May 1946, in Glasgow), is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music. Donovan came to fame in the United Kingdom in early 1965 with a series of live performances on the pop TV series, Ready Steady Go!, and his popularity spread to the USA and other countries. After signing with the British label, Pye Records in 1965, he recorded a handful of singles and two albums in the folk music vein. After getting out from his original management contract, he began a long and successful collaboration with leading independent record producer Mickie Most, scoring a string of hits in the UK, the USA, Australia and other countries, including several British and American #1 hits and million-selling records. Donovan was the first artist to be signed to CBS/Epic Records by then-new Administrative Vice President Clive Davis, who later became head of the CBS Record empire. In March 1969 (too soon to include “Atlantis”), Epic and Pye released Donovan’s Greatest Hits, which included several songs previously only available as singles — “Epistle To Dippy”, “There is a Mountain” and “Laleña”, as well as rerecorded versions of “Colours” and “Catch The Wind”, which had been unavailable to Epic because of Donovan’s contractual problems. It became the most successful album of his career; it reached #4 …