"Catch the Wind"
Single by Donovan
from the album What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid
B-sideWhy Do You Treat Me Like You Do?[6]
Released28 February 1965 (UK)[1][2][3][4]
April 1965 (US)[5]
Recorded1965
GenreFolk
Length2:21 (Side A)
2:57 (Side B)
LabelPye 7N.15801 (UK)[7]
Hickory 45-1309 (US)[5]
Songwriter(s)Donovan Leitch
Producer(s)Terry Kennedy, Peter Eden, Geoff Stephens
Donovan singles chronology
"Catch the Wind"
(1965) 		"Colours"
(1965)

"Catch the Wind" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan.[4] Pye Records released "Catch the Wind" backed with "Why Do You Treat Me Like You Do?"[6] as Donovan's debut release (Pye 7N.15801) in the United Kingdom on 28 February 1965.[1][2][3][4] The single reached No. 4 in the United Kingdom singles chart.[8] Hickory Records released the single in the United States in April 1965 (Hickory 45-1309),[5][9] where it reached No. 23 in the United States Billboard Hot 100.[10]

Cash Box described it as a "medium-paced, folk-styled low-down bluesey romancer," with a Bob Dylan-like vocal.[5] Record World likewise described it as "Dylanesque."[11]

In May 1965, Pye Records released a different version of "Catch the Wind" on Donovan's debut LP record album What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid (NPL.18117).[12] While the single version featured vocal echo and a string section, the album version lacked those elements and instead featured Donovan playing harmonica.

When Epic Records was compiling Donovan's Greatest Hits in 1968, the label was either unable or unwilling to secure the rights to the original recordings of "Catch the Wind" and Donovan's follow-up single, "Colours". Donovan re-recorded both songs for the album, with a full backing band including Big Jim Sullivan playing guitar and Mickie Most producing.

Cover versions

Miscellaneous uses in the media

References

  1. ^ a b Cleave, Maureen (1965a), p. 7.
  2. ^ a b Cleave, Maureen (1965b), p. 6.
  3. ^ a b Cleave, Maureen (1965c), p. 5.
  4. ^ a b c Reynolds, Stanley (1965), p. 14.
  5. ^ a b c d "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. 17 April 1965. p. 12. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  6. ^ a b Lincolnshire Echo staff (1965), p. 8.
  7. ^ Farmer, Bob (1965), p. 10.
  8. ^ "officialcharts.com". officialcharts.com. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  9. ^ Nelson, Gene (1965), p. 194.
  10. ^ Daffyd Rees and Luke Crampton, Rock Stars Encyclopedia (New York: DK Publishing, Inc., 1999), 309.
  11. ^ "Singles Reviews" (PDF). Record World. 17 April 1965. p. 6. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  12. ^ Bucks Examiner staff (1965), p. 8.
  13. ^ "Rainer May – Geh und fang den Wind (Catch The Wind)". YouTube. 2 January 2010. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
  14. ^ "Catch the Wind / Hurdy Gurdy Man – Eartha Kitt". Earthakittfanclub.com. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
  15. ^ We Five, "Catch the Wind" single release Retrieved 12 July 2014
  16. ^ "Recording: Catch the Wind – Buck Owens". Second Hand Songs. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
  17. ^ "The Susanna Hoffs Discography". Archived from the original on 25 December 2001. Retrieved 2 October 2018.

Works cited

  • Cleave, Maureen (13 February 1965a). "Maureen Cleave Disc Date". Evening Standard. London, Greater London, England. p. 7. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  • Cleave, Maureen (17 February 1965b). "Disc Date". Evening Post. Bristol, Avon, England. p. 6. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  • Cleave, Maureen (6 March 1965c). "Maureen Cleave's Pop Spot". Evening Chronicle. Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. p. 5. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  • Reynolds, Stanley (6 March 1965). "We copied him first". The Guardian. London, Greater London, England. p. 14. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  • Farmer, Bob (18 March 1965). "The New Discs". Citizen. Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. p. 10. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  • Lincolnshire Echo staff (18 March 1965). "Records to Put Spring into You". Lincolnshire Echo. Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. p. 8. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  • Bucks Examiner staff (4 June 1965). "Discorner". Bucks Examiner. Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England. p. 7. Retrieved 26 February 2023.

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