Date
Venue
City
State
Add
Sources
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
Comment
Hollywood Bowl
Hollywood
CA
Intro
The Entertaining of a Shy Girl
Jennifer Juniper
Epistle to Derroll
Lord of the Reedy River
Silkies
Writer in the Sun
Sand and Foam
Hello Maria
Widow With Shawl (A Portrait)
Poor Cow
Guinevere
Lalena
The Sun Is A Very Magic Fellow
Sunny Goodge Street
A Sunny Day
Shoals of Herring
Hast Thou Seen the Unicorn? + The Owl & the Pussycat
Peregrine + Wild Mountain Thyme
Two Lovers (w/flute)
Far to the North
The Magpie
Song of the Wandering Aengus
Where Is She?
Catch the Wind
Celeste
Rules and Regulations
To Try For The Sun
chatter
Maria
Colours
Pebble and the Man + Happiness Runs
Isle of Islay
Jennifer Juniper
Season of the Witch
Memorial Coliseum
Portland
OR
The Sun Is A Very Magic Fellow
Sunny Goodge Street
A Sunny Day
The Unicorn/The Owl And The Pussycat
Medley: Peregrine/Wild Mountain Thyme
Poem By Yeats
Song Of The Wandering Aengus
The Magpie
Where Is She?
To Try For The Sun
Happiness Runs
Jennifer Juniper
Epistle To Derroll
Lord Of The Reedy River
Silkies
Writer In The Sun
Sand And Foam
Hello Maria
Widow With Shawl (A Portrait)
Guinevere
Lalena
Yale University
New Haven
CT
Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness)
To Try For The Sun
Someone Singing
Rules And Regulations
Mellow Yellow
Unknown
Frankfurt
Germany
Jennifer Juniper
Lord of the Reedy River
Writer in the Sun
The Love Song
Guinevere
Catch the Wind
Eight Little Fishes
Ob La De Ob La Da
To Try for the Sun
They May Say You’re Crazy
Sunshine Superman
The Magpie
Lord of the Universe
The Little Tin Soldier
Hey Gyp
Rosie
Hey Jude
Four Fat Ladies
Mr. Fluteman
Hurdy Gurdy Man
Where Is She?
Rules and Regulations
Mellow Yellow
Colours
To Susan on the West Coast Waiting (cuts off)
To Sing For You
Widow with Shawl (A Portrait)
Maria
Lalena
Happiness Runs
Various
Various
Various
1. Jennifer Jupiter
2. Giggle In A Bubble Bath
3. Angel's Thought
4. Come To Me Now Joyfully
5. To Love Me
6. The Sun Is A Very Magic Fellow
7. The Reedy River
8. The Ferryman's Daughter
9. Lalena
10. Happiness
11. Recital Of A yeats poem
12. Some Of Your Love
13. ...For The Sun
14. Someone Singing
15. Rules And regulations
16. Mellow Yellow
Bonus Tracks:
Abby Studios With Paul McCartney
17. How Do You Do
18. Blackbird
Various
Various
Various
01 The Sun Is Very Magic Fellow *
02 Jennifer Junifer *
03 Giggle In A Bubbley Bath *
04 Rules And Regulations
05 Angel's Thoughts
06 Come To Me Now Joy fully *
07 To Love Me *
08 Lalena
09 The Ferry Man's Daughter *
10 The Reddy River *
11 Happiness Runs
12 A Poem By Years *
13 Mey Gyp *
14 To Try For The Sun
15 Someone Singing
16 Mellow Yellow
* incorrectly spelt or titled
The above tracks are from The Reedy River bootleg
A:
1. Jennifer Juniper
2. Giggle in a Bubbly Bath
listed as Giggle in a Bubbley Bath ???
3. "angel's thoughts are like children's thoughts ..." - speech
not listed
4. Angel's Thoughts
listed as Angels Thoughts ???
5. Come to me now Joyfully
6. To Love me
a.k.a. Lassie Lay Doon
7. Medley:
Jennifer Juniper
Sunshine Superman
Mellow Yellow
There is a Mountain
8. The Sun is a Very Magic Fellow
9. Lord of the Reedy River
listed as The Reedy River
10. The Ferryman's Daughter
11. Natural High is the Best High
listed as The Natural High is the Best High
12. Atlantis
B:
1. Lale?a
2. "now this time we can all let it hang out ..." - speech
not listed
3. Happiness Runs
4. Two Lovers
listed as A Poem by Yeats
5. Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)
listed as Hey Gyp
6. To Try for the Sun
7. Someone Singing
8. Rules and Regulations
9. Mellow Yellow
Lale?a, Happiness Runs and possibly Two Lovers are from The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour broadcast of 17th November 1968.
Lale?a has the clapping faded in and is four seconds shorter than the collectors' tape version. For these three performances, the record has a more bassier echo than the tape which, although has more hiss and sounds a bit tinny, is of overall better quality.
On the bootleg, Two Lovers appears after Happiness Runs and no obvious edit can be heard. But the tape has Time is on the Run (The Main Thought) immediately after Happiness Runs with no obvious edit either. The video copy that the tape was dubbed from may not be a complete performance, but on the other hand, the original bootlegger may have been messing around with the material too. This may explain why Time is on the Run is inexplicably missing from the bootleg track list.
Atlantis, Giggle in a Bubbly Bath, Angel's Thoughts, Come to me now Joyfully, To Love me and Medley are from The Smothers Brothers Comedy Concert Hour broadcast of 23rd March 1969.
Atlantis has definitely been messed about with. On the bootleg, it is split into the intro, which is not from the Smothers performance, and the actual song ("way down ...") which is from the show. Both parts are mastered too slow and the bootleg prematurely fades out the song, chopping off almost an entire minute. The reason for this is presumably, because the bootlegger didn't want any of the Smothers Brothers introduction on the record and also because (s)he was coming to the end of the first side of the record.
Giggle in a Bubbly Bath is mastered slightly too slow but by the time we get to Angel's Thoughts, it is almost at the right speed. For these performances the tape is again the winner. Although there is significantly more crackle on the tape, the sound `behind' the crackle is of a better fidelity and the performance complete.
Medley has been cut to shreds, leaving all the non-Donovan snippets out and leaving a mess of tiny pieces, mastered too slowly.
Other tracks are from other TV shows, eg. The Andy Williams Show (see the TV/Radio/Film page).
The material on this record has been released several times, under various titles: Donovan '70 [Bash Records], The Reedy River [TMOQ Records - pressed on red vinyl], Live at the Reedy River Junction ???, Donovan [1974 - Joker SM 3730] and Donovan Live - Mellow Yellow (see below).
The music on all of these is the same but some (notably the Joker issue) omit Medley on the first side, along with Natural High is the Best High and Atlantis.
Details obtained from http://www.sabotage.demon.co.uk/donovan/bootrare.htm#reedy
Donovan-1968 Acetates
Unknown
Unknown
Sweet Beverly
Jennifer Juniper
Barabajagal
Young But Growing
My Friend Christo
Saccharine Sue
Runaway
Crazy Maisie
Corsica
Mr. Wind
I Hope By You
Everlasting Sea Studio Tracks
Unknown
Unknown
Everlasting Sea
Happiness Runs
Down Town
Age Of Treason (Officially released on Troubadour)
As I Recall It
My Life Was Sweet
Tumbelly Tune
Nothing To Do Today
Watching The Sun Go Down
Get The Bearings
The Pebble And The Man
Poor Cow
What The Soul Desires (Officially released on Troubadour)
(I couldn't even make a guess at a title for this)
Keep Your Little Feet On The Ground
Rules And Regulations
Teen Angel (Officially released as Hurdy Gurdy Man b-side)
I Was Born In Glasgow Town