This is from the album Hurdy Gurdy Man released in 1968.
Every now and then I need a Donovan day!
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June 25, 2010 at 1:20 pm
yousendit link:
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/898362593/522ec9953f445f972f767a8c61902d25
June 25, 2010 at 1:54 pm
and I enjoy Donovan as well – hair of golden flax and what about all that Frenchie (out of the World Cup in disgrace) stuff at the end of the song ? goodness knows if it meant anything.
June 25, 2010 at 4:14 pm
My Dear Hedley,
I never did know what those French lyrics meant. I just sang along.
Here is sone stuff from song facts:
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1973
June 26, 2010 at 6:26 am
Actually, I am wondering if you picked the right Donovan song…It probably should have been “There is a Mountain”
All together now..”First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is”
June 25, 2010 at 2:05 pm
yes a day of Donovan is refreshing & reminisint.
I was fortunate to see him in concert back in the late 80’s.Good then and great earlier.His stories between the songs brought a glimpse into the story behind his songs & the thoughts of the day
June 25, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Morpfy,
From the first, I have liked Donovan. Sometimes his lyrics make no sense but he sings them too wonderfully for me to care.
June 25, 2010 at 4:53 pm
MMM. Just a note to say the song’s two words in the title are reversed here. It is “Jennifer Juniper”. 😉
June 25, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Rick,
It’s the altitude!
June 25, 2010 at 6:59 pm
Hi, Kat.
I saw Donovan in concert a long time ago. He had Ravi Shankar with him. It was great.
The French is just a repeat of the first verse. Jennifer Juniper lives upon the hill etc.
June 25, 2010 at 7:13 pm
Caryn,
That is a cool combination for a concert. I can imagine how good it was.
Thanks for the translation!
June 26, 2010 at 9:10 am
It was a wonderful combination though they did not play together.
Someone in the upper balcony had a water-pipe loaded with grass and great clouds of distinctively aromatic smoke were rolling over the railing. My companion thought it was very rude of the person because Donovan was anti-drug. I figured if he had the nads to smoke it in public like that, manners were probably not his top concern.
June 25, 2010 at 7:32 pm
For a year or so, when I was 15 or 16, Donovan was my absolute favorite. I even bought the “From A Flower To A Garden” box set, with the artsy portfolio of poetic lyrics inside. Now that was an only guy on the block kind of experience.
I went straight from him, to Tuli Kupferberg and Frank Zappa. Sensibilities can change quickly in adolescence.
TV dinners by the pool, I’m so glad I finished school.
June 27, 2010 at 10:02 am
reddog,
I had been looking for that album for a while. It was one of the few of his I never owned. I think I associate so much with Donovan that I still have the same affection for his music as I did so long ago.
I love your forward movement-all the way to Zappa!
June 25, 2010 at 8:45 pm
@reddog: Hey, let’s hear it for Frank Zappa! My hero. Went to a number of his concerts in Austin, including two at Armadillo World Headquarters. One of those was the one where he recorded with his buddy, Captain Beefheart. One of the songs from the album contained, “Goodnight Austin, Texas, wherever you are!”
June 25, 2010 at 10:03 pm
well, here we go, please follow closely:
This was inspired by George Harrison’s then-sister-in-law, Jennifer Boyd (sister of Pattie). Both sisters married after this recording: Pattie Boyd Harrison married Eric Clapton, Jennifer Boyd married Mick Fleetwood.After divorcing Fleetwood (and remarrying and redivorcing him), Jenny eventually married Ian Wallace (formerly a drummer in the prog rock band KingCrimson), earned a Ph.D. in psychology, and became a clinical consultant and author.
Juniper” was the name of a boutique Jennifer Boyd ran.
long addendum
Born Helen Boyd in England in 1947 – the younger sister of Patti Boyd was given the nickname Jenny after Patti’s favorite doll.
Jenny was a London model and met the future drummer of Fleetwood Mac in 1965. Mick Fleetwood recalled the beginning of their relationship in his book, My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac: “”I met Jenny when I was still in the Cheynes… I’d see Jenny coming home from school, a stunning 15-year-old in white stockings. I lost my heart to her immediately. I had a massive crush on her, but was so shy I couldn’t say anything to her. I knew then, at age 16, that this was the girl I was destined to marry.””
Mick and Jenny’s relationship was erratic for 15 years. They broke up first in the summer of 1966 while Jenny was working as a model, “”Well, I met someone in Rome and became involved. I told Mick when I got home and he got really upset. It was a very big breakup.”” In 1966, Jenny had began experimentation with marijuana and LSD and described a incident which she said arose from the experience: “”One momentous day I experienced an astonishing realization, which I can now identify as a spiritual awakening. The traditional Christian beliefs I had been taught as a child crumbled as I suddenly recognized that there was no God above or hell below. God was everywhere, inside each one of us. I saw everything as a circle: life, death, and rebirth, or reincarnation.””
Jenny moved back to Los Angeles, moved in with Mick, and they remarried in 1976. The couple divorced again 6 months after Jenny sobered up with the help of an Oriental acupuncturist. She moved back England with her daughters in 1978, where she met Ian Wallace, a drummer who had played with the bands King Crimson and Snape in 1972. They married in 1984. Jenny earned her bachelor’s degree in humanities at Ryokan College, then she earned her master’s degree in counseling psychology, and her Ph.D. in psychology in 1989. In her 1992 book, Musicians in Tune, Jenny Boyd stated that she divided her time between Malibu, California and Surrey, England with her husband, Ian, and was a consultant to Sierra Tucson, a Californian treatment center. Jenny and Mick’s older daughter, Amy, had a son, Wolf Cassius, in 1994, and she resides in England with the baby’s father, Atticus.
pictures at http://iamthechildofthemoon.blogspot.com/2008/05/jennifer-juniper.html
June 26, 2010 at 6:27 am
All very good, but did she play football with Joe Kirkup ? 🙂
June 27, 2010 at 10:06 am
sblake,
I had to read it a couple of times to keep everyone in place, and I’m still not really sure.
I did love the pictures on the blog-they jumped me right back to my college years.
June 26, 2010 at 3:29 am
Kat,
I subscribe to your comment and I share the same need. And for that, I usually turn to “Sand and Foam”. I think it is one of his best song : fine melody and WUI (words under influence ?).
June 27, 2010 at 10:12 am
iero,
It has been so long since I’ve heard Sand and Foam, but I have it playing now in the background. It’s lovely.