Track Listing

1. Colours
2. To Try For The Sun
3. Sunny Goodge Street
4. Oh Deed I Do
5. Circus Of Sour
6. The Summer Day Reflection Song
7. Candy Man
8. Jersey Thursday
9. Belated Forgiveness Plea
10. Ballad Of A Crystal Man
11. Little Tin Soldier
12. The Ballad Of Geraldine
13. Universal Soldier
14. The Ballad Of A Crystal Man
15. The War Drags On
16. Do You Hear Me Now
17. Turquoise
18. Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #364158 in Music
• Released on: 2002-09-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Album Description
24 bit / 96 kHz DVD-Audio and 24 bit / 48 kHz Dolby Digital 5.1 options
Stunning 5.1 surround sound
Liner Notes
Artist Photos
Plays on ALL DVD players

Customer Reviews

everything that I had hoped for
Fairy Tale has fantastic music and fantastic Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. I've been a Donovan fan for many years. I've had Donovan 45 rpm singles, 33 1/3 albums and CD's. This is the first DVD-audio. I found a sound quality that was not available (to me, anyway) in the 60's. I didn't hear any static or hissing that I associate with remastering of old audio tracks, not even when I turned the volume up some. I don't claim to be an audiophile, but I thought the sound was clean.

The DVD has 17+ "screens" of liner notes. Each song displays a photo, mostly black and white. At least one of the photos is used twice, but is cropped and zoomed. The disc jacket displays the THX/pm3 symbol. I tried this dvd on a few different dvd-players and it played on all of them. The stereo sound through the headphones of a portable DVD player was quite nice.

I hope to see more of the older classics redone is this format. I would even buy another Donovan album in DVD-audio. If you are looking for a higher sound quality of Donovan music, then I highly recommend this DVD.

Te Best Of
OK, men...THIS IS THE BEST of The Master!!
When I Found above dust the original vinyl of my father I wondered at any track !!!
This is the first album and you can listen to the simplicity af the guitar arrangements e the beautiful voice of Donovan.
"to try for the sun", "colours", "catch the wind", and most of the other songs are the answer to all searching for the "core" of the artist before electric sounds and Indian influences.
Expecially if you are a "campfire guitar singer" you can't miss this album !!!!
Cheers

Truly a Beautiful Record
This record, like "Catch the Wind" features Donovan accompanying himself on guitar and harmonica and I believe Shawn Phillips plays on a couple of the songs. If I remember right he plays on "The Little Tin Soldier." Anyway, it's mostly just Donovan. The record opens with "Colours," one of my favorite songs, then segues right into "To Try for the Sun," which (and I don't care what some people say the song is about) is my absolute favorite Donovan song. I've got the "Reedy River" bootleg and the way he performed the song on tour in 1967 is to die for. Actually you can get a version almost like that now, because they've just released the complete Anaheim Show. Whoops, I'm digressing, back to the album at hand. "Summer Day Reflection Song" is just simply wonderful. "Belated Forgiveness Plea" is, to me, one of the saddest songs ever written. I cry every time I hear it. Another song that does that to me is the Jefferson Airplane's, "Coming Back to You." Another sad song on this disc is "The Ballad of Geraldine" where Don takes a female part. The song is heartbreaking and breathless. But the real gem on this record is "The Ballad of a Crystal Man." In my opinion it is just about the best antiwar song ever written. The young people knew so much back then, why oh why has the world turned out the way it has. Ah well, this is truly a beautiful record, one I play all the time.