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Super Hits

by Donovan

Product Description:

Personnel includes: Donovan, Jeff Beck Group.

Recorded between 1966 and 1972. Originally released on Epic Records.

Digitally remastered by Rick Rowe (Media Force).

A well chosen, if necessarily incomplete best-of compilation, lacking several of Donovan's most famous songs--"Season of the Witch" for example--but interestingly programmed nonetheless. Donovan remains, of course, one of the classic love-him-or-hate-him artists of the '60s, but there's no question that he had a flair for the daffily surreal hit single ("Atlantis," "Sunshine Superman," "Mellow Yellow").

He was also fortunate in having a sympathetic producer, Mickie Most, whose arrangements mostly saved him from the self-indulgence he might otherwise have lapsed into. Highlights here include the genuinely lovely faux art song "Lalena," and "Barabajgal," a collaboration with the Most-produced Jeff Beck Group that was the only really convincing rocker he ever waxed.