A Gift from a Flower to a Garden is the fifth album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan, and marks the first double album of his career and one of the first box sets in rock music. It was released in the United States in December of 1967 (Epic Records L2N 6071 (monaural) / B2N 171 (stereo)) and in the United Kingdom on April 16, 1968 (Pye Records NPL 20000 (monaural) / NSPL 20000 (stereo)). In December of 1967, Epic Records released each of the two records from A Gift from a Flower to a Garden as separate albums in the US. The first record was released as Wear Your Love Like Heaven, and the second record was released as For Little Ones. This was done to allow budgeting for the double album's packaging, which included a folder of the printed lyrics to the second disc with artwork, and a cover featuring an infrared photo of Donovan (requiring six colour separations for printing, instead of the usual four separations). The back cover photo was a standard one, and depicted Donovan visiting with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. 33⅓ LP vinyl record album The vinyl record is a type of gramophone record, most popular from the 1950s to the 1990s, that was most commonly used for mass-produced recordings of music. ... Donovan Leitch Donovan Philips Leitch (usually known simply as Donovan) (born May 10, 1946) is a British musician. ... December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Folk-rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. ... A minute is: a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. ... 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History

After recording the Mellow Yellow album, Donovan focused on releasing hit singles. "Epistle to Dippy" (essentially an inside-joke/open letter for a childhood friend) hit the top 20 in February of 1967 and "There Is a Mountain" (#11 US; #8 UK) followed in August. Mellow Yellow is the fourth album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Note: as an adjective (stressed on the second syllable instead of the first), august means honorable. ...

Riding high on the success of these singles, Donovan entered the studio in October to record his next album. The double album that resulted from these sessions consisted of one disc of electric pop music (Wear Your Love Like Heaven) and another of acoustic children's music (For Little Ones). The acoustic album allowed Donovan to present a facet of his songwriting that had not been featured on his singles. It also allowed him to show his strength as a guitar player and performer in a way that he could not when augmented by session musicians. In fact, Donovan's live performances of the time featured instrumentation and performances more in line with For Little Ones than his hit singles and the first record of A Gift from a Flower to a Garden. October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... A double album is an audio album of sufficient length that two units of the medium in which it is sold (especially records and compact discs) are necessary to contain the entirety of it. ... This article mainly describes pop as used in its more recent sense, as a subgenre of popular music. ... Wear Your Love Like Heaven (Epic Records LN 24349 (monaural) / BN 26349 (stereo)) is the first record of the double album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden, the fifth album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. ... Look up Acoustic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary For the study of sound, a branch of physics, see acoustics. ... Childrens music provides an important and entertaining means of teaching children about their culture, other cultures, good behavior, facts and skills. ... For Little Ones (Epic Records LN 24350 (monaural) / BN 26350 (stereo)) is the second record of the double album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden, the fifth album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. ... The classical guitar typically has 3 nylon and 3 nickel-wound strings. ... Session musicians are musicians available for hire, as opposed to musicians who are either permanent members of a musical outfit or who have acquired fame in their own right. ... For Little Ones (Epic Records LN 24350 (monaural) / BN 26350 (stereo)) is the second record of the double album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden, the fifth album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. ...

While Mickie Most produced the single from the album ("Wear Your Love Like Heaven"/"Oh Gosh"), and is credited with the album's production, Donovan actually produced the bulk of the material himself, allowing Most the credit to help sales. Mickie Most, born Michael Peter Hayes (June 20, 1938 - May 30, 2003), successful record producer notably with a string of Number 1 hit singles with his own RAK Records label and acts such as The Animals, Hermans Hermits, Donovan and Suzi Quatro. ... Look up Single in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Single can mean: A single is a song commercially released separately from an album. ...

"Mad John's Escape" is a song written for a friend of Donovan's who escaped from a mental health center. The song details Mad John's escape and subsequent adventures.

"Under the Greenwood Tree" was originally written by William Shakespeare, and set to music by Donovan for the Royal National Theatre, who planned to use it in a stage production. At the end of the song, Donovan sings "Will you, won't you... join the dance?" in reference to the chorus of "The Lobster Quadrille" in Chapter X of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Royal National Theatre from Waterloo Bridge The Royal National Theatre of Great Britain is a building and theatre company on Londons South Bank. ... Photograph of Lewis Carroll taken by himself, with assistance Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was a British author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. ... John Tenniels illustration for A Mad Tea-Party, 1865 Alices Adventures in Wonderland is a work of childrens literature by the British mathematician and author Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. ...

In the album's liner notes, Donovan explained his purpose in creating two rather different discs (one for the present generation, and the other for the "dawning generation"), and also denounced the use of drugs. Several of his earlier records had contained both veiled and open references to drug use (particularly marijuana and LSD), but since the release of Mellow Yellow, he had both been arrested and prosecuted for marijuana possession, and had seen people he knew turning to harder drugs (speed, heroin, cocaine), and the damage this caused in their lives. Instead, Donovan promoted the use of meditation and other techniques, in his new songs. Cannabis is a plant also known as Cannabis sativa, hemp, or marijuana. ... D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, commonly called acid, LSD, or LSD-25, is a powerful semisynthetic psychedelic drug. ... Speed (symbol: v) is the rate of motion, or equivalently the rate of change of position, expressed as distance d moved per unit of time t. ... Heroin or diamorphine (INN) (colloquially referred to as brown sugar, junk, babania, horse, golden brown, smack (for the sound made when a user slaps an arm to find a vein), black tar, montega, H, big H, lady H, dope, skag, juice, jude, diesel, boy, etc. ... Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. ... The Transcendental Meditation technique, or TM, is a form of meditation. ...

The album earned a Gold Record award, for half a million sales, during 1970. The description Gold Album is applied to recorded music albums that have sold a minimum number of copies (in the US, currently 500,000 sales). ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ...

Reissues

• On May 3, 1999, Beat Goes On Records reissued A Gift from a Flower to a Garden on compact disc in the U.K..

• On September 12, 2000, Collector's Choice Records reissued A Gift from a Flower to a Garden on compact disc in the U.S..

• On January 16, 2001, Collectables Records released Mellow Yellow/Wear Your Love Like Heaven (Collectables 6644), which contained all of Mellow Yellow and the Wear Your Love Like Heaven portion of A Gift from a Flower to a Garden.

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Track Listing

Original Album

Side 1

1. "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" (Donovan Leitch) - 2:27
2. "Mad John's Escape" (Donovan Leitch) - 2:20
3. "Skip-a-long Sam" (Donovan Leitch) - 2:26
4. "Sun" (Donovan Leitch) - 3:17
5. "There Was a Time" (Donovan Leitch) - 2:02

Side 2

1. "Oh Gosh" (Donovan Leitch) - 1:48
2. "Little Boy in Corduroy" (Donovan Leitch) - 2:34
3. "Under the Greenwood Tree" (words by William Shakespeare, music by Donovan Leitch) - 1:58
4. "The Land of Doesn't Have to Be" (Donovan Leitch) - 2:30
5. "Someone Singing" (Donovan Leitch) - 3:07

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1. "Song of the Naturalist's Wife" (Donovan Leitch) - 2:47
2. "The Enchanted Gypsy" (Donovan Leitch) - 3:21
3. "Voyage into the Golden Screen" (Donovan Leitch) - 3:15
4. "Isle of Islay" (Donovan Leitch) - 2:24
5. "The Mandolin Man and His Secret" (Donovan Leitch) - 3:35
6. "Lay of the Last Tinker" (Donovan Leitch) - 1:49

Side 4

1. "The Tinker and the Crab" (Donovan Leitch) - 2:55
2. "Widow with Shawl (A Portrait)" (Donovan Leitch) - 3:02
3. "The Lullaby of Spring" (Donovan Leitch) - 3:27
4. "The Magpie" (Donovan Leitch) - 1:31
5. "Starfish-on-the-Toast" (Donovan Leitch) - 2:45
6. "Epistle to Derroll" (Donovan Leitch) - 5:44