[ ]      [ ]   [ ]
Donovan — Season Of The Witch

 (1967)
[ larger cover art ]
Log in above to post your comment
AndyJ
(Oregon)
Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 11:26
 
I seem to remember that this song's instrumental section went on for an extended period. One of those "DJ in bathroom" songs... It always came on as I was driving home...


Very nice selection-playlist today... Thanks   
  

d-don
(Oregon)
Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 11:23
 
 Lazarus wrote:

Everybody in my church loves this song...
 

 
I'm sitting in the front pew, Laz, and I'm digging this song.

gillespp
(Portland, OR)
Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 11:21
 
Probably Donovan's best.

rascal
(Toronto)
Posted: Mar 17, 2013 - 10:45
 
such great sound..depth clarity...you can "hear the room"...sure miss the analogue days, loved the organ 40 years ago, still do..

Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Mar 17, 2013 - 10:40
 

Everybody in my church loves this song...
 

coloradojohn
(A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver)
Posted: Mar 17, 2013 - 10:38
 
Yeah...this one melts my mind back to a day that turned into a weekend that turned into an Odyssey that is still without end...late 1983, Boulder...it was indeed The Season of The Witch!

TerryS
(Another SW)
Posted: Jan 13, 2013 - 17:57
 
 Art_Carnage wrote:
Let's see. I've got "witch" rhyming with "stich". That should be enough for a song, right?
 
Yep, he's gone and written a song to rhyme with my motorcycle suit - it's called an "Aerostich".

hoppin_bob
(vancouver BC)
Posted: Dec 18, 2012 - 21:38
 
Strongly agree!  What a nice idea.

ScottishWillie wrote:

I would love to have heard The Doors cover this. It sounds like it was written for them.

 



hoppin_bob
(vancouver BC)
Posted: Dec 18, 2012 - 21:37
 
 Supersession - 1968... Season of the Witch was without Bloomfield, was with Stills.

QuestionMark wrote:
When did Kooper, Bloomfield, Stills release this?
 



southcoastsounds
(East Sussex, UK)
Posted: Dec 13, 2012 - 08:58
 
Donavan started out a cheap British imitation of Dylan, but developed his own groove - quite successfully as in this song.  Love the contrived rhyme  "two rabbits running in a ditch" - nothing to do with the song at all!

ronniegirl
(Middle of New Jersey)
Posted: Oct 11, 2012 - 15:33
 
 kurtster wrote:
9 to 10.  Shouda always been a 10.

Such a mezmorizing song.  Still love it.

Only been listening to it for 45 or so years ...
 
Yep.  Yep. 

On_The_Beach
(The Blue Planet)
Posted: Sep 15, 2012 - 15:03
 
 Byronape wrote:
I can't get over the album cover.  He looks like someone that would be sitting in his tighty whities leering at a girl all bound up with duct tape.
 
projection |prəˈjek sh ən|
noun
3  • the unconscious transfer of one's own desires or emotions to another person : we protect the self by a number of defense mechanisms, including repression and projection.

ScottishWillie
(The Scottish Lowlands)
Posted: Sep 10, 2012 - 02:07
 

I would love to have heard The Doors cover this. It sounds like it was written for them.



QuestionMark
(Toto's homeland)
Posted: Aug 09, 2012 - 14:41
 
When did Kooper, Bloomfield, Stills release this?

jim1964
(1379 miles to Wall Drug)
Posted: Jun 07, 2012 - 10:57
 
 beatniks are out to make it rich....hmmmm.

jmassoglia
(Everybody sez this is NoWhere)
Posted: Jun 07, 2012 - 10:52
 
Loved this in the final scene from "To Die For".  Illeana Douglas skating over Nicole Kidman's corpse in the dead of winter......chilling!

CCinSB
(the west coast)
Posted: Jun 07, 2012 - 10:52
 
{#Daisy}

echoes
(Danbury, CT)
Posted: Jun 07, 2012 - 10:51
 
R&R HOF?

Art_Carnage
(DeepintheheartofTexas)
Posted: May 06, 2012 - 17:00
 
Let's see. I've got "witch" rhyming with "stich". That should be enough for a song, right?

musickat
(Lake of the Ozarks)
Posted: Mar 09, 2012 - 21:38
 
This is what we used to call GROOVEY Man GROOVEY

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Mar 09, 2012 - 21:33
 
 kurtster wrote:
9 to 10.  Shouda always been a 10.

Such a mezmorizing song.  Still love it.

Only been listening to it for 45 or so years ...
 
I agree...  love it...

 

gigikent
Posted: Feb 07, 2012 - 04:33
 
season of the b*tch?!

d-don
(Oregon)
Posted: Feb 01, 2012 - 15:10
 
 kurtster wrote:
9 to 10.  Shouda always been a 10.

Such a mezmorizing song.  Still love it.

Only been listening to it for 45 or so years ...
 

Been right there with ya.

whomhow
(changeable)
Posted: Feb 01, 2012 - 15:10
 
Really nice to hear another song of Donovan here! :)

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Jan 06, 2012 - 09:45
 
 Byronape wrote:
I can't get over the album cover.  He looks like someone that would be sitting in his tighty whities leering at a girl all bound up with duct tape.
 
donovan sunshine superman
Huh?  Either you're looking at a very different album cover or, um...

kurtster
(Back in Ohiya, for now ...)
Posted: Dec 05, 2011 - 14:34
 
9 to 10.  Shouda always been a 10.

Such a mezmorizing song.  Still love it.

Only been listening to it for 45 or so years ...

haresfur
(Bendigo Australia)
Posted: Dec 05, 2011 - 14:34
 
 Byronape wrote:
I can't get over the album cover.  He looks like someone that would be sitting in his tighty whities leering at a girl all bound up with duct tape.
 
Well he was just mad about 14 year old girls...



Babydoll66
Posted: Oct 29, 2011 - 12:01
 
Classic 60's. Cloud of Smoke.{#Roflol}

Mugro
(My body is in Dubai, but my broken heart is in Red Sox Nation)
Posted: Oct 03, 2011 - 09:57
 
 Bocephus wrote:
Luna does a nice cover also

Youtube Link
 
{#No}

Why cover the original if you bring nothing new to the song? A paycheck perhaps? The Luna cover reminds me of Modern English covering themselves with "Melt With You." An inferior attempt at an exact copy. Blech!


foothillfreak
(Salt Lake City)
Posted: Oct 03, 2011 - 09:55
 
OH YEAH! Halloween month! Bring it on!

Byronape
(Snorkeling in the River Styx)
Posted: Aug 27, 2011 - 09:33
 
I can't get over the album cover.  He looks like someone that would be sitting in his tighty whities leering at a girl all bound up with duct tape.

coy
(san antonio)
Posted: Aug 27, 2011 - 09:30
 
hahahahaha

 martinc wrote:
One of the early tunes I learnt on the guitar. We could jam this in basement forever. I remember my dad coming down and asking us to move on to the next song. He even knew the chorus!
 



(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jun 25, 2011 - 12:34
 


Great galloping green bananas—  why didn't I rate this song before?  I have this original vinyl album...  this song is good for the ears...  this album has other songs that I like better, but this song is groovy...  love it...



cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: May 24, 2011 - 20:59
 
 OCDHG wrote:
who let this guy out of his opium den?
 


Brave tune at the time I bet.
You go Charlie sheen ! RP rules

sonicsurfer
(Vancouver BC Canada)
Posted: May 24, 2011 - 20:58
 
at 1st I thought I heard "madonna" I'm used to & a fan of the fingers of the reach .. but double take? madonna?  Oh... thank god, Donovan!

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: May 24, 2011 - 20:57
 
 jagdriver wrote:


I enjoy Richard Thompson's version. And there was an excellent cover on the Super Session LP (Kooper, Bloomfield & Stills).
 
The Super Session version was Kooper and Stills, who absolutely slays it with a wah-wah pedal.


OCDHG
(High on a mountain)
Posted: Apr 23, 2011 - 07:45
 
who let this guy out of his opium den?

bachbeet
Posted: Mar 22, 2011 - 18:32
 
My favorite Donovan song.  Excellent.  Used in a really good movie - To Die For.

LowPhreak
(United Corporate States of Neo-Feudal Amurika, Inc.)
Posted: Jan 19, 2011 - 02:28
 
 big_gare wrote:
I could be wrong, but I believe Jimmy Page & John Bonham provide some accompaniment on this record. John Paul Jones, too maybe? Any confirmation?
 
I know JPJ did studio work on Hurdy Gurdy Man, not sure on the other tracks.


blackdogsailing
(Portland, Maine)
Posted: Oct 29, 2010 - 16:57
 
Looks like Jake Gillenthal

haretic
(toward Abad, just south of Maitri)
Posted: Oct 29, 2010 - 16:56
 
I remember going to a Donovan concert in '69 at the Hollywood Bowl. My girlfriend and I were 15, and Donovan came out onstage by himself dressed in a plane white cotton long shirt.  I don't recall whether or not he was barefoot.  But he wouldn't play Season of the Witch, nor would he play many of my favorite songs.  Somehow it had become an aspect of his past he was clearly ashamed of.  I heard he went through other, er, "different" phases too performing in the years that followed.  It was a disappointing concert.
Great song.

rjewyo
(Ventura, CA)
Posted: Oct 29, 2010 - 16:49
 
Enjoying this pre-halloween set Bill....boo!

martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: Oct 16, 2010 - 06:51
 
One of the early tunes I learnt on the guitar. We could jam this in basement forever. I remember my dad coming down and asking us to move on to the next song. He even knew the chorus!

a_genuine_find
(not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway)
Posted: Sep 14, 2010 - 12:25
 
Thankful cover artwork has evolved ....

Bocephus
(Boulder, CO)
Posted: Sep 14, 2010 - 12:22
 
Luna does a nice cover also

Youtube Link

coy
(san antonio)
Posted: Sep 14, 2010 - 12:21
 
the frick is he talking about ??

shawshank
(Maryland)
Posted: Sep 14, 2010 - 12:20
 
Is that Ruth Buzzi on the album cover? A distant cousin maybe? {#Stupid}


Dinges,_the_Dude
(under sea-level, N52°22', E4°52')
Posted: Sep 14, 2010 - 12:20
 
First time I hear this song and I think I like it!

DaveInVA
(In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA)
Posted: Sep 14, 2010 - 12:19
 


The correct artwork. It was originally released as a single but ended up on Sunshine Superman later.

This was one of the longest songs on the radio in '66 at 4:56 long. I remember they used the Richard Thompson cover of it on the TV show "Crossing Jordan".
On the "Super Sessions" version they used the same drummer, Eddie Hoh as this original version.
Good stuff! {#Music}


jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Sep 14, 2010 - 12:17
 
 sirdroseph wrote:
Always dug this one, Kewl tune!{#Cool}
 
   And many other Donovan tracks, too.