“Colours” by Donovan

Donovan chased the success of "Catch the Wind" with "Colours", a 1965 single on Pye that also found a home on his second album, Fairytale, keeping to the same gentle folk style. What changed was the dressing. Where "Catch the Wind" leaned on strings, "Colours" is the Scottish troubadour on his own acoustic guitar, banjo and harmonica, with former Shadows man Brian Locking sitting in on bass.

He told Record Mirror he wrote it on the spot during a session at the Southern Music studios in London in May 1965, and Terry Kennedy, Peter Eden and Geoff Stephens produced it, as they did everything he put out that year. The British single came backed with "To Sing for You", while Hickory's American pressing a few months later went with "Josie", both pulled from his debut, What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid.

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