Donovan

Do You Hear Me Now

1965 · Pye Records NEP 24219 · UK: Scotland

Do You Hear Me Now – Donovan (Sleeve (front))

Artist
Donovan
Title
Do You Hear Me Now
Release
The Universal Soldier
Year
1965
Label
Pye Records # NEP 24219
Format
7" EP · EP
Language
English
Country
UK: Scotland
Songwriter
Bert Jansch
Genre
Folk · Contemporary Folk
Primary theme
Peace, Protest & Anti-War

Notes

Mono, solid centre. First cat# on label (NEP.24219), second on cover (NEP 24219); 'Extended Play' printed on left side of labels. Several UK pressings/represses. A Bert Jansch song about war in general, from the war-themed EP Universal Soldier (Pye NEP 24219) alongside Universal Soldier, The War Drags On and Ballad of a Crystal Man. Cover of Do You Hear Me Now – Bert Jansch. Pye Extended Play NEP.24219 (sleeve NEP 24219, monaural), "Recording first published 1965", pink Pye labels, made in England. Side 1: Universal Soldier (Buffy St. Marie), The Ballad of a Crystal Man (Donovan), publisher Southern; Side 2: Do You Hear Me Now (Bert Jansch), The War Drags On (Mick Softley), publishers Pied Piper / Southern. "Produced by Eden-Stephens and Terry Kennedy — An Iver Recording"; © Pye Records Ltd 1965, distributed by Pye Records (Sales) Ltd, A.T.V. House, Gt. Cumberland Place, London W.1.…

About the artist

Scottish folk singer born Donovan Philips Leitch on 10 May 1946 in Glasgow, popular through the 1960s and into the 1970s.

Themes

Anti-War · Peace · Protest

In collections

European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]