A little known fact about Donovan. He demanded to have mass slaughtering of teenage girls at his shows for his amusement. Another little fun fact, most of the knives were made out of copper!
@ZedBazinga Well men, i dis agree with you cause i listen Bob Dylan while ago thanks to my grandpa who sang me his songs. anywhore if you want to make a mature opinion i suggest you to say it in a way that sounds more respectful, both artist are equally good
@ricksand2 Yes and as a matter of fact, Bob says in his film, Don't Look Back, "look at him..he plays like Jack." Bob was referring to Rambling Jack Elliot. Glad somebody else said it for a change.
@hollywoodchase Donovan playing harmonica means he ripped off Dylan? .. so Dylan playing harmonica means Dylan ripped off Woody Guthrie. .. but really, people banging away on guitar and making noises with a harmonica was a common combination way back. It's just that noone does that any more so on the rare occassion we see it we assume x ripped off y.
@candyrn16141 Donovan was like the young Dylan......Yusuf Islam was like the later Dylan.....BUT nothing like THE REAL AND ONLY........E.T. the Extra-terrestrial...Love that little Guy ;')
I had a '65 Corvair with a four tract tape deck. How about that!! anyway, Donovan was one of my few and only tapes in four track that I had. Another was early Ray Charles. I was sixteen or seventeen. I was going to Viet Nam if I didn't stay in college. I dropped a course and they drafted me within three weeks of dropping. After my draft physical they decided they weren't interested. The group W bench thing. Check out Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant to understand that reference.
If you are a truth seeker, search "Truth Contest" in Google and click on the 1st result, then open The Present and read what it says. Everyone needs to see this. The Present will turn this world right-side up if it reaches enough people. You will see what I mean when you read the first page.
@erroll147 What a marvelous time to be alive. Anti-war, free love, campus demonstrations, College demonstrations, college classes, the music. Unbelievable. Check out pictures of Love Street Light Circus, Houston, Texas. Saw Edgar and Johnny Winter, 13th Floor Elevators, the Moving Sidewalk (aka ZZTop), Scott McKenzie, Janis Jopplin, Lightnin Hopkins. They were all there. The 13th Floor Elevators are epic check them out. Rocky Erickson was great. Ck. Out Poison Idea. My roommate for 10yr
@Bugees Didn't Donovan go thru a Bob Dylan infatuation period,,,sadly? Not that I dislike Dylan, but Donovan had clearly enough talent to be more fully his own artist than you're saying here. They say, 'an amateur imitates & an artist steals'. Are u sure he didn't steal and make this his own? I cant tell. Dunno Dylan that well.
@Bugees Don't be ridiculous; for folk singer-songwriters such as Dylan there are only so many chord combinations that you can have, it's similar but they're are clearly different. Lyrics are the real important thing for this kind of music anyway, and they are most certainly different.
around 2004 or 5, no probably 2006 i can't remember now, but here in L A we had an indy station on 103.1 and donovan d.j. once in a while and he played a track off of his new album that sounded so good, i would have bought it if i could. does anyone know about this new c.d.??
Chimes of freedom was written early 64' released August 64' on his FOURTH album.Catch the wind was Donovan's DEBUT single released March '65.I very much doubt Donovan wrote his a year b4 Dylan's but even if... Dylan was aware his songwriting skills at the time were far beyond Donovan's.His ego wouldn't have allowed him to steal from him.
We should also note that Donovan in May 1964, by his own admission, made a long pilgrimage from Scotland down to the Royal Festival Hall London for Dylan's first UK gig. I love Donovan for what he is and Bob Dylan he patently isn't. Why do people still try to compare the two? Dylan evidently found this fact very amusing, you only have to watch him singing Talkin' World War III Blues in Don't Look Back to see that. "I looked in the closet, and there was Donovan'...
Are you a messanger. from god sent? the lord annointed me. so i am blessed by the lord. and can bear children too. so great is my love. cancer and aids and leparcy i have. in the sevan circles sit seven silent men, each to his own and his own the same. and bellow his sits the lepar in fraime, but the saint said i could have been saint andrew or the pope or murdered a hundred niggers to blame.
The REAL name of this song is "Chimes of Freedom" I'm not a super fan of Dylan and he's done his fair deal of stealing from others but this is very clearly a cover of Chimes of Freedom.
@JuneMoris I hope you're aware the Catch the Wind was written almost a whole year before Chimes of Freedom. Hard to cover a song that hasn't been written yet.
bob dylan and donovan were both copycats at first. they BOTH wanted to be woodie guthrie. then, bob went on to do his own thing with a band, and so did donovan. EQUALS.
@MiserableOldFart Actually Dylan was partly resonsible for the demise of the late Phil Ochs, they were at a party and Dylan had just written Mr. Tambourine Man and Ochs said in an interview " I knew I just could not compete with Dylan after hearing that song"
@jojo28061 WHAT TALENT? The guy was a copyist and a poor one at that. For true talent see - 70-reasons-why-bob-dylan-is-the-most-important-figure-in-popculture-history. It's now 51.
See also the film "Don't Look Back" which follows Dylan on his 1965 tour of England.
It includes the meeting of Dylan & Donovan in Manchester? backstage and Don plays Dylan a song, which he likes. Unfortunately Dylan had been spooked by someone breaking a bottle. I believe I saw it recently on Youtube.
In 1964/5, Screaming was The way to show your appreciation, as applied also to the Beatles and the Small Faces, which goes to show just how popular Donovan was, back then. Later he taught Lennon how to play country riffs (out in India) and hosted many Radio programmes of others' music and remains a major influence and seems to still be touring. Screaming is still better than punks gobbing on the band, to show their appreciation!. 47 years ago and still a great song.
@AdrianAwesomeness As a woman who was one of those girls back then, I have to say you're absolutely right. Although he was and still is incredibly talented ( much more so than Justin Bieber ).
banjgoboy - it is a joy when it is time and some small measure of dignity is retained. saw it with my own dad - came here to allow him to die at home and do so with all the dignity he could muster intact. it was a joy. sad for me but a joy for a man that earned it.
Today on the radio, i heard that he had written this song for his wife, before he even met her. He said he had a feeling he would soon meet the woman he would marry.
Donovan was great. I love Bob Dylan although much of his style is taken off Woody Guthrie who was one of his greatest inspirations, so if anyone days Donovan "ripped" Dylans style, then it is just as easy to say Dylan "ripped" Woody Guthries style. Also many of Dylans earlier songs were much like Guthrie, "Song to Woody" is even dedicated to him
It is true there was more 'sharing' back then than ripping off. When I saw Dylan
on a TV Special he had just got back from visiting with the Beatles and Donovan in England. He had the same set up with the Harmonica attached around his neck. I suppose someone close to the stage asked him what it was because we had never seen anything like that in the States, he said, don't worry about that, it's a little something I learned when I was over there in England.
Screaming girls no doubt grew up and had children called Butterfly, Jasmine and Saffron... who now have children of their own called Chardonnay, Tiffany and Bianca...
hehehe....have had the lyrics for this and precious little for years....finally got around to finding out where they were from...and in listening to this I can remember hearing these when I was little
Harmonica racks go back waaay before Dylan. Les Paul (yeah, the guitar god) was using one at age 10 in 1925 and was probably not the first. Dylan, Donovan and the rest of us got the harp rack idea from Woody Guthrie, Jimmy Reed and Lone Cat Jesse Fuller. Dylan started out trying to sound just like Hank Williams, Little Richard and Woody Guthrie in that order. Everybody learns from somebody.
What's this crap about Dylan; Utter bull. Dylan couldn't perform this like Donovan; The Byrds made Mr Tambourine Man what it was and still is. Sentimental pensioners should back off.
Thats your valid opinion but why share it in such an aggressive manor and you could at least back it up , and peoples names tend to have capital letters.
The best version of this song was from another live studio show. He's wearing an absurd sheepskin vest and there's rows of go-go dancers in silhouette in the bckgrd. It's an utterly sublime vocal performance (he's without the harmonica, and just "dee-dee-dees" his way through the bridge, which I somehow find more poignant), but, alas, the jerks took it off for copyright infringement. Does anyone know the video I'm talking about, and where it can be found?
dylan-donovan..different hues of blue in the same rainbow. Like comparin coffee to beer...prefer one sometimes the other versa-vice. Bottom line enjoy your pleasures...
hate it when people compare donovan to dylan i love both donovan,s music captured a time of peace but was never the british ( scottish ) dylan to me his song writing ability for his time was prob only surpassed by ray davies
JESUS, someone turned the volume up full blast on my laptop, i'm wearing earphones! the girls in the audience nearly blew my head off with that crazy screaming.
I love this song, I saw Donavon play at Southend Cliffs Pavillion and then after at club Riga a few years ago. This guy Elliott Frisby did some work up london with him on a beat cafe tour which was pretty good that this type of music is still doing the clubs, Donovans daughter also played that good night.
The universal soldier should be re-released as just as relevant now!
I'm hear to listen to Donovan not debate who was better; Donovan or Dylan. For all those people leaving comments about him being crap, haven't you got anything better to do?
Fantastic song.. Donovan reminds of his daughter on this video ... Btw whatever happened to that girl? Never saw her acting again
anedmure 1 week ago
...I have a friend who looks just like him. The resemblance is startling.
QueenoftheCrocodiles 1 week ago in playlist Unrequited Love Songs
Please don't tell me that I'm the only one who finds him very attractive...
PaulSaysShezam 2 weeks ago 6
A little known fact about Donovan. He demanded to have mass slaughtering of teenage girls at his shows for his amusement. Another little fun fact, most of the knives were made out of copper!
MPMaster 2 weeks ago
Donovan your sweet music and voice, I never tire of~~Beautiful*~
all4musica 3 weeks ago
I am an english songwriter, if you like donovan then you may like my work too.. peace
TheRedheadsongs 1 month ago
every time i see the episode of "heartbeat" this song is a part of it gets firmly stuck in my head. still i love it.
TheSandsie13 1 month ago
This song brings back memories of my lost son, my greatest wish is to be with him , but sadly, I think 'I might as well catch the wind'....
ironbark1100 1 month ago 2
real words real meaning
Findel5 1 month ago
Wonderfully simple song sung beautifully
52herbert1 1 month ago
I'm not sure the harmonic was supposed to be used with the recording software from back then.
VivaNewVegas 1 month ago
@VivaNewVegas software? when do you think this was recorede?
mancman4bkk 1 month ago
This song always gives me chills, & brings tears to my eyes, reminds me of my dad :) love it! <3
Illusionary22 1 month ago
10000000000x better than bob dylan
ZedBazinga 1 month ago
@ZedBazinga Well men, i dis agree with you cause i listen Bob Dylan while ago thanks to my grandpa who sang me his songs. anywhore if you want to make a mature opinion i suggest you to say it in a way that sounds more respectful, both artist are equally good
xSHAODWKILLERx 1 month ago
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"Bob Dylan said Donovan was his favorite song writer..."
I think it was a mutual admiration amongst artists of the highest order. ;-)
valerwood 2 months ago
Another year, I love you always x
TheJacobiker 2 months ago
Bob Dylan said Donovan was his favorite song writer...
ricksand2 2 months ago 2
@ricksand2 Yes and as a matter of fact, Bob says in his film, Don't Look Back, "look at him..he plays like Jack." Bob was referring to Rambling Jack Elliot. Glad somebody else said it for a change.
crazymama1955 3 weeks ago
Um, isn't this a huge rip off of Bob Dylan, specifically "The Times They Are A-Changin?" Harmonica and all.
hollywoodchase 2 months ago
@hollywoodchase Donovan playing harmonica means he ripped off Dylan? .. so Dylan playing harmonica means Dylan ripped off Woody Guthrie. .. but really, people banging away on guitar and making noises with a harmonica was a common combination way back. It's just that noone does that any more so on the rare occassion we see it we assume x ripped off y.
mijmijrm 2 months ago 2
@mijmijrm ... the rites of ON! Catch the wind of my beer fArts...So the germans inVented the mouth orGan...
thawthepast 2 months ago
@hollywoodchase ; you obviously don't know music enough to make a comment saying that.
JofusSunshyne 2 months ago
@JofusSunshyne Are you saying that this song doesn't sound like "The Times They Are A-Changing?" It's not that far of a leap.
hollywoodchase 2 months ago
This song is beautiful and sad.
linandjer 2 months ago 2
and me
anishanijhawan20 2 months ago
Parenthood brought me here.
googieq 2 months ago 8
@googieq me too!
HaoKaren 2 months ago
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Beautiful... My girlfriend told me about this song. I owe her a bunch of kisses.
TheSpelldoctor 2 months ago
Schmaltzy love song...
ThomasDeLello 3 months ago
@ThomasDeLello When did you stop believing in things, Tommy?
RickyJ108 2 months ago
Makes me cry every time.
j1mf1eld 3 months ago 3
@j1mf1eld me too
garyq86 2 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Donovan
I wonder if someone shanked the girls after the concert...
RWstunts 3 months ago
Boy has music changed fun to watch this old stuf.
ThePooppantsman 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Donovan
Steve Jobs was listening to this song in his last days
fabiomr2 3 months ago 2
how can you love such mellow music, but be so mean?
macykayluv 3 months ago
According to the new bio coming out on Steve Jobs soon. Catch the Wind by Donovan is one of the songs Jobs listened over and over to before he died.
rootedsorrow 3 months ago
Great song
upgrade01a 3 months ago
His best song, I think
upgrade01a 3 months ago
Class!!! X
carmelkeville 3 months ago
thanks for posting this.
gwynneveireland 3 months ago
Cats Stevens was the closest to Dylan.
candyrn16141 3 months ago
@candyrn16141 Donovan was like the young Dylan......Yusuf Islam was like the later Dylan.....BUT nothing like THE REAL AND ONLY........E.T. the Extra-terrestrial...Love that little Guy ;')
pagliaccinodlemantra 3 months ago
@candyrn16141 wrote --Cats Stevens was the closest to Dylan.--
Except Cat Stevens turned into a nut job calling for the killing of another human being.
rsimcox 3 months ago
Girls: 2 million years of evolution, and you have no progress :(
Men: 2 million years of evolution, and you get Youtube....
Girls, we're waiting for your comeback!!!
freedomland11 4 months ago
muy muy bueno, te quiero mucho
ebuVisionVideos 4 months ago
Dylan was threatened by Donovan. Then they met. The Hebrew Shaman with the Celtic name is a fake. Donovan is the real deal.
Donovan, NOT Dylan as I always say. Read the Donovan autobiography.
theboomster 4 months ago
For Linda, the love of my life xxx
1bjhfan 4 months ago
I had a '65 Corvair with a four tract tape deck. How about that!! anyway, Donovan was one of my few and only tapes in four track that I had. Another was early Ray Charles. I was sixteen or seventeen. I was going to Viet Nam if I didn't stay in college. I dropped a course and they drafted me within three weeks of dropping. After my draft physical they decided they weren't interested. The group W bench thing. Check out Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant to understand that reference.
slkaiser69 5 months ago
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THESE SONGS!!!
BieNumber1 5 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Donovan
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SeekTruthN0w 5 months ago
What a gentle face
erroll147 5 months ago
@erroll147 What a marvelous time to be alive. Anti-war, free love, campus demonstrations, College demonstrations, college classes, the music. Unbelievable. Check out pictures of Love Street Light Circus, Houston, Texas. Saw Edgar and Johnny Winter, 13th Floor Elevators, the Moving Sidewalk (aka ZZTop), Scott McKenzie, Janis Jopplin, Lightnin Hopkins. They were all there. The 13th Floor Elevators are epic check them out. Rocky Erickson was great. Ck. Out Poison Idea. My roommate for 10yr
slkaiser69 5 months ago
Pure plagiarism. It's the same as "Chimes of Freedom", by Bob Dylan.
Bugees 5 months ago
@Bugees Didn't Donovan go thru a Bob Dylan infatuation period,,,sadly? Not that I dislike Dylan, but Donovan had clearly enough talent to be more fully his own artist than you're saying here. They say, 'an amateur imitates & an artist steals'. Are u sure he didn't steal and make this his own? I cant tell. Dunno Dylan that well.
reforest4fertility 4 months ago
@reforest4fertility two men thousands of miles apart who happened to write and sing great songs.
cdinfm 4 months ago in playlist music
@Bugees Don't be ridiculous; for folk singer-songwriters such as Dylan there are only so many chord combinations that you can have, it's similar but they're are clearly different. Lyrics are the real important thing for this kind of music anyway, and they are most certainly different.
mbarrett12 4 months ago
The Sonny and Cher song, "I got You, Babe" was probably inspired by this tune.
marvy1118 5 months ago
just fantastic
folklore563 5 months ago
Yes, thanks for the memories.........
galadriel1960 5 months ago
SHUT up and listen
jewetheret 5 months ago
girls in the background "HE HAS A GUN!"
stratisfire 5 months ago 18
@stratisfire hahahaha!
themrspink 3 months ago
Never knew..Jack Barlow passed today and was told he sang this song..looked for it and wow look at al the people recorded this beautiful song.. tks.
whitechicuva1 6 months ago
around 2004 or 5, no probably 2006 i can't remember now, but here in L A we had an indy station on 103.1 and donovan d.j. once in a while and he played a track off of his new album that sounded so good, i would have bought it if i could. does anyone know about this new c.d.??
m1kewithaone 6 months ago
Sweet Dreams ! Thanks for the memories !
allyouneedismmmm 6 months ago
A song I love to sing to my little sister after I have farted in her face !!
grooverheliboy 6 months ago
Chimes of freedom was written early 64' released August 64' on his FOURTH album.Catch the wind was Donovan's DEBUT single released March '65.I very much doubt Donovan wrote his a year b4 Dylan's but even if... Dylan was aware his songwriting skills at the time were far beyond Donovan's.His ego wouldn't have allowed him to steal from him.
JuneMoris 6 months ago
@JuneMoris
We should also note that Donovan in May 1964, by his own admission, made a long pilgrimage from Scotland down to the Royal Festival Hall London for Dylan's first UK gig. I love Donovan for what he is and Bob Dylan he patently isn't. Why do people still try to compare the two? Dylan evidently found this fact very amusing, you only have to watch him singing Talkin' World War III Blues in Don't Look Back to see that. "I looked in the closet, and there was Donovan'...
macmaghnusa 6 months ago
@IwuvSoCal I do hope youre joking
MoarPewPew 6 months ago
Are you a messanger. from god sent? the lord annointed me. so i am blessed by the lord. and can bear children too. so great is my love. cancer and aids and leparcy i have. in the sevan circles sit seven silent men, each to his own and his own the same. and bellow his sits the lepar in fraime, but the saint said i could have been saint andrew or the pope or murdered a hundred niggers to blame.
duncangray2011 6 months ago
The REAL name of this song is "Chimes of Freedom" I'm not a super fan of Dylan and he's done his fair deal of stealing from others but this is very clearly a cover of Chimes of Freedom.
JuneMoris 6 months ago
@JuneMoris I hope you're aware the Catch the Wind was written almost a whole year before Chimes of Freedom. Hard to cover a song that hasn't been written yet.
MoarPewPew 6 months ago
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JuneMoris 6 months ago
essa musica marcou minha adolecensia, nao sou dessa epoca mais gosto muito dessa musica THANKS DONOVAN
toith 6 months ago
bob dylan and donovan were both copycats at first. they BOTH wanted to be woodie guthrie. then, bob went on to do his own thing with a band, and so did donovan. EQUALS.
traigogoodmusic 7 months ago
Dylan couldn't shine Phil Ochs' shoes and Donovan is very talented. So is Dylan, but to say that Donovan was a copy cat is patently ridiculous.
MiserableOldFart 7 months ago
@MiserableOldFart Actually Dylan was partly resonsible for the demise of the late Phil Ochs, they were at a party and Dylan had just written Mr. Tambourine Man and Ochs said in an interview " I knew I just could not compete with Dylan after hearing that song"
GeorgiiiiRaWK 6 months ago
@MiserableOldFart maybe he couldn't shine his shoes but he could write alot better song
45arther 5 months ago
From @0:19 to @0:21 Donovan looks at the crowd and was like, "dumb bitches, let me fucking sing!."
7drift0king2 7 months ago 40
DUMBASS American.
ItBrandonSilver 7 months ago
ps3 flower FTW BITCHES HAA!!!
blaby4ever 7 months ago
50 people don't appreciate talent.
jojo28061 7 months ago
@jojo28061 Maybe screaming teenage girls killed their families.
RickyJ108 7 months ago
@jojo28061 WHAT TALENT? The guy was a copyist and a poor one at that. For true talent see - 70-reasons-why-bob-dylan-is-the-most-important-figure-in-popculture-history. It's now 51.
MrEclecticity 7 months ago
Great
MrPeadarmacgiolla 7 months ago
See also the film "Don't Look Back" which follows Dylan on his 1965 tour of England.
It includes the meeting of Dylan & Donovan in Manchester? backstage and Don plays Dylan a song, which he likes. Unfortunately Dylan had been spooked by someone breaking a bottle. I believe I saw it recently on Youtube.
Tornfreedom 7 months ago
In 1964/5, Screaming was The way to show your appreciation, as applied also to the Beatles and the Small Faces, which goes to show just how popular Donovan was, back then. Later he taught Lennon how to play country riffs (out in India) and hosted many Radio programmes of others' music and remains a major influence and seems to still be touring. Screaming is still better than punks gobbing on the band, to show their appreciation!. 47 years ago and still a great song.
Tornfreedom 7 months ago
tell them how in mount zion they rode on black men. like thunder storms acorss the saharia.
TheBlindPig1 7 months ago
sung from the heart you can see in his eyes
OnlineMeditation 7 months ago
No offence. but of the girls i could tell this is the justin bieber of his generation ;)
AdrianAwesomeness 8 months ago
@AdrianAwesomeness Just proves that girls used to go for talent, but now...
OasisBridlington09 8 months ago 3
@AdrianAwesomeness As a woman who was one of those girls back then, I have to say you're absolutely right. Although he was and still is incredibly talented ( much more so than Justin Bieber ).
mrsfboomer 7 months ago
i thought this bob dylan when i first heard it
6BURG9 8 months ago
I want to hide awhile behind your smile!
megasasaify 8 months ago
ahh to play before an audience of shrieking harpies is any musician's dream
legacy2204 8 months ago
banjgoboy - it is a joy when it is time and some small measure of dignity is retained. saw it with my own dad - came here to allow him to die at home and do so with all the dignity he could muster intact. it was a joy. sad for me but a joy for a man that earned it.
maryspinker 8 months ago
I love this song! A hidden marvel...
Sascha4791 8 months ago
I love this song!
Friedenspfeife321 8 months ago in playlist Donovan
MY DADS GOING HOME, WHAT JOY, IT, TRY AND CATCH THE WIND.
banjgoboy24 8 months ago
scot poet. what more could one ask for.
melinda4777 9 months ago
another glesga boy what a city
juv7 9 months ago
drum go away
Dbakermoe 9 months ago
they want his dick!!!!
miscriant 9 months ago 3
Today on the radio, i heard that he had written this song for his wife, before he even met her. He said he had a feeling he would soon meet the woman he would marry.
dogstar1877 9 months ago
Donovan was great. I love Bob Dylan although much of his style is taken off Woody Guthrie who was one of his greatest inspirations, so if anyone days Donovan "ripped" Dylans style, then it is just as easy to say Dylan "ripped" Woody Guthries style. Also many of Dylans earlier songs were much like Guthrie, "Song to Woody" is even dedicated to him
BiddaBiddaCherryPie 9 months ago 3
It is true there was more 'sharing' back then than ripping off. When I saw Dylan
on a TV Special he had just got back from visiting with the Beatles and Donovan in England. He had the same set up with the Harmonica attached around his neck. I suppose someone close to the stage asked him what it was because we had never seen anything like that in the States, he said, don't worry about that, it's a little something I learned when I was over there in England.
It was a beautiful combination.
zarcangel 9 months ago
this is the only good thing Donovan did.
skint0n0minted 9 months ago
@skint0n0minted
Say WHAT?!
Babyhowdy233 9 months ago
@Babyhowdy233 you heard
skint0n0minted 9 months ago
how anyone could not like this song is damn near a sin
Irisi13 9 months ago 2
50 ppl are going to hell for not liking this song.
Irisi13 9 months ago
He was so shy....so quiet...and overwhelmed by his sucess.
candybrae1 9 months ago
someone shut those screaming girls up holy shit lol!!!!
drumoftheland747 9 months ago 91
You got a FUCKING problem, BITCH? Have yo man give you some damn dick.
ItBrandonSilver 7 months ago
@drumoftheland747 great song though
1959biffo 5 months ago
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and people think girls are stupid when they scream for john mayer; nah it's always been the same thing. Beatles you couldn't hear them
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mainmedic 10 months ago
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I remember first hearing this song when I was 13 and I've been a huge Donovan fan ever since. He is a truly remarkable musician
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ShittyMcshitstain 10 months ago
Donovan was very underappreciated in his time. It's only now, when the music industry stinks, that people are finding these old gems.
arklat 10 months ago
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what has happen two the good old song man they where the best hop that people spred donovans song around two pepole they now
memo6memo1 10 months ago
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mumford and sons eat shit
whatubeaccount1 10 months ago
50 people didn't catch the wind.
Qkracha3 10 months ago
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most original comment on youtube.
Rush1013 10 months ago
@Qkracha3
50 people probably didn't ever catch anything !!
Screaming girls no doubt grew up and had children called Butterfly, Jasmine and Saffron... who now have children of their own called Chardonnay, Tiffany and Bianca...
mrbillhicks 10 months ago
@Qkracha3
congratulations on the most original comment on youtube.
lmOnlySleeping 10 months ago
@Qkracha3 S'all right I caught it over 50 times. Quids in.
Hornet0biker 10 months ago
hehehe....have had the lyrics for this and precious little for years....finally got around to finding out where they were from...and in listening to this I can remember hearing these when I was little
Mahana03 10 months ago
scot poet - what more can you ask for?
djeanine86 10 months ago
super!!!
donpedrossy 10 months ago
chimes of freedom flaaashing
starcraft108 10 months ago
He sounds a lot like Bob Dylan because they are both heavily inspired by Woody Guthrie
mustard2155 11 months ago 2
50 people cant stand good music.
RiKu1909 11 months ago
Class, sheer class! you can't beat real singer, song writers.
MrBada55B 11 months ago
Nothing derivative about it. Dylan was great too. Ochs was the best. Donovan was outstanding.
MiserableOldFart 11 months ago
this is not derivitive. this is a pretty tune. bob dylan did not write it. donovan wrote it and performed it. give credit where credit is due.
cdinfm 11 months ago
Harmonica racks go back waaay before Dylan. Les Paul (yeah, the guitar god) was using one at age 10 in 1925 and was probably not the first. Dylan, Donovan and the rest of us got the harp rack idea from Woody Guthrie, Jimmy Reed and Lone Cat Jesse Fuller. Dylan started out trying to sound just like Hank Williams, Little Richard and Woody Guthrie in that order. Everybody learns from somebody.
TheThomparrott 11 months ago
What's this crap about Dylan; Utter bull. Dylan couldn't perform this like Donovan; The Byrds made Mr Tambourine Man what it was and still is. Sentimental pensioners should back off.
thefunshack 11 months ago
@thefunshack Come on, he sounds JUST like him, he even looks like him with the hair.
bigdjindustriez 11 months ago
You're right on everything except the pensioners. Keep your eye on your girlfriend, one of us might steal her.
MiserableOldFart 11 months ago
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Great song!!
If you like this song you may like my songs? Check out my video response! Emily, When I am Free (demo version).
Leave a comment and let me know what you think!
Cheers,
Gavin
GavinWilkinsMusic 11 months ago
A very great song and a very great and talented singer! This has been my favourite song for decades. Now as I'm 54 I still love it!
slolwaye 11 months ago
classic
TheCathyb22 11 months ago
until the 0:38 the girls are screming
DTUTexas 11 months ago
one of the greatest songs i`ve ever listened to!!!! total inspiration
slayerdeanski 1 year ago
This is the best version of this song I,ve EVER heard its brilliant !!!
gordinistanopolis 1 year ago
donovan is superb
phillybrbr 1 year ago
great song
TheA8markmwb 1 year ago
Huge talent!
studdingsails 1 year ago 2
Ah Donovan, my mom liked him so much she gave me his great name.
donovan1971 1 year ago 66
@donovan1971 O.O
fdrpyahoocom 10 months ago
@donovan1971
It is one COOL name alright, just like the man who wears his love like Heaven! :D
Babyhowdy233 9 months ago
@donovan1971 Dude that's soo tight, my pops named me after Ian Gillan in Deep Purple Lol
sirhonestharry 8 months ago
@donovan1971
How excellent!
DaysOfPineAndRoses 8 months ago
@donovan1971 I was just thinking about how I'd like to name my future son Donovan!
jeangeniex3 8 months ago
You're just a DUMBASS American.
ItBrandonSilver 7 months ago
@donovan1971 I named my son Donovan, too, after this amazing talented man.
It's a great name!
magpie06 6 months ago
He's great , but Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan
samkf97 1 year ago
@samkf97 bob dylan sucks.
orrigami 1 year ago
Thats your valid opinion but why share it in such an aggressive manor and you could at least back it up , and peoples names tend to have capital letters.
samkf97 1 year ago
The best version of this song was from another live studio show. He's wearing an absurd sheepskin vest and there's rows of go-go dancers in silhouette in the bckgrd. It's an utterly sublime vocal performance (he's without the harmonica, and just "dee-dee-dees" his way through the bridge, which I somehow find more poignant), but, alas, the jerks took it off for copyright infringement. Does anyone know the video I'm talking about, and where it can be found?
Cmajor66 1 year ago
dylan-donovan..different hues of blue in the same rainbow. Like comparin coffee to beer...prefer one sometimes the other versa-vice. Bottom line enjoy your pleasures...
don't begrudge others from enjoyin theirs.
allapattagator 1 year ago
@allapattagator
But still: Dylan cannot sing.
otto09876 1 year ago
@allapattagator
otto09876 1 year ago
Yes, try to make it better! You try to catch the wind! Eipa ole parempaa; eika kukaan edes yrita Suomessa paasta samaan paskaan!
TheJelly132 1 year ago
one of my favourite songs i know how it feels
to try and catch the wind
carolejaffa 1 year ago
I remember when this came on the radio I'd scream, "turn it up, turn it up!" lol Just an excellent piece.
Thanks Jon for sharing with us. :)
Songsmirth 1 year ago
The tune is very similar to Bob Dylan's "Chimes of Freedom." The words "catch the wind" are no doubt inspired by Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind."
ZAGGLETON 1 year ago
hate it when people compare donovan to dylan i love both donovan,s music captured a time of peace but was never the british ( scottish ) dylan to me his song writing ability for his time was prob only surpassed by ray davies
Ken1957100 1 year ago
hey, i have said all i can, or will. Give me ONE person that can capture that, besides Queen!...or CCR>>>
polmaccaba 1 year ago
JESUS, someone turned the volume up full blast on my laptop, i'm wearing earphones! the girls in the audience nearly blew my head off with that crazy screaming.
tonyo2323 1 year ago
49 people are having chilly hours and minutes
bigbongo1000 1 year ago 3
I love this song,
bigbongo1000 1 year ago
@bigbongo1000
I love this song, I saw Donavon play at Southend Cliffs Pavillion and then after at club Riga a few years ago. This guy Elliott Frisby did some work up london with him on a beat cafe tour which was pretty good that this type of music is still doing the clubs, Donovans daughter also played that good night.
The universal soldier should be re-released as just as relevant now!
bigbongo1000 1 year ago 2
Dont know how ppl are comparing dylan and donovan! they are both amazing! they didnt copy off eachother do some researching if you think otherwise!
put it to rest both are amazing musicians
UboobSuks 1 year ago
I heard this in the movie The Invention of Lying and had to look it up. Great song, and I listen to rap. :)
roydavidmerrell 1 year ago
I'm hear to listen to Donovan not debate who was better; Donovan or Dylan. For all those people leaving comments about him being crap, haven't you got anything better to do?
GaGaGooGoostuff 1 year ago