Mellow Yellow

by Donovan

Mellow Yellow cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 10 February 1967
  • Label: Epic
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 34:23
  • Community rating: 3.87/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Arranged with the help of John Paul Jones and John Cameron, Donovan鈥檚 fourth album infuses his acoustic folk foundation with bright, jazz-tinged pop orchestration. The record utilizes prominent brass sections and breezy tempos to capture the relaxed, kaleidoscopic optimism of the emerging counterculture.

Genres

Descriptors: folk, melodic, acoustic, funky, retro, gentle, classic

Tracklist

  1. Mellow Yellow (3:47)
  2. Writer In The Sun (4:33)
  3. Sand And Foam (3:19)
  4. The Observation (2:23)
  5. Bleak City Woman (2:24)
  6. House Of Jansch (2:43)
  7. Young Girl Blues (3:46)
  8. Museum (2:54)
  9. Hampstead Incident (4:41)
  10. Sunny South Kensington (3:49)

Credits

  • Donovan - primary artist
  • Mickie Most - producer
  • Donovan Phillips Leitch - written-by

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