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DONOVAN – British Psych Pop Legend Released His 3th LP ‘SUNSHINE SUPERMAN’ Today 60 Years Ago

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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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DONOVAN Scored No 1 Hit In The USA 53 Years Ago Today With ‘SUNSHINE SUPERMAN’

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Top singles from the past

3 September 2024

British songsmith  DONOVAN (born Donovan Phillips Leitch 78 years ago) scored
a No. 1 hit in the US on 3 September 1966, this day 58 years ago with SUNSHINE SUPERMAN (almost 54 million streams on Spotify). It peaked at #2 in the UK.

“Sunshine came softly through my a-window today
Could’ve tripped out easy a-but I’ve a-changed my ways
It’ll take time, I know it but in a while
You’re gonna be mine, I know it, we’ll do it in style
‘Cause I made my mind up you’re going to be mine”

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DR. LONNIE SMITH & IGGY POP Cover Sixties Sunshine Superman DONOVAN

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5 March 2021

Jazz icon DR. LONNIE SMITH and the everywhere-and-anytime-present
IGGY POP teamed up for a smooth cover of SUNSHINE SUPERMAN, a hit
by sixties Scottish folk-pop legend DONOVAN, which will feature on Smith’s
new album Breathe – produced by Don Was– out at the end of this month.

Smith: “I was playing with my trio at Arts Garage in Delray Beach in Florida.
Iggy would come by and say he wanted to play with me. I let him play slaparoo
and he loved it. He enjoyed playing with us. We thought about recording a few
songs, so we went in with my trio backing us up, and it worked.”

Sunshine came softly through my a-window today
Could’ve tripped out easy a-but I’ve a-changed my ways
It’ll take time, I know it but in a while
You’re gonna be mine, I know it, we’ll do it in style
‘Cause I made my mind up you’re going to be mine…

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Breathe album out 26 March via Blue Note Records