Significant longplayers from yesteryear
26 August 2026
Scottish psych-pop songsmith legend DONOVAN, who turned 80 last May, released
his 3rd LP, named SUNSHINE SUPERMAN, today 60 years ago on 26 August 1966
in the US alone.
It didn’t come out in the UK at that time because of a contractual dispute. In June 1967,
a compilation of tracks from this album and the follow-up Mellow Yellow was released as Sunshine Superman in the UK.
Weird thing in Donovan‘s career, once dubbed as the British Bob Dylan,
is the fact that he made it first in the US, and in the UK sometime later.
The album was one of his most successful, peaking at number 11 in
the US and remaining on the Billboard Chart for 6 months. The 1967
UK edition peaked at number 25.
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