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A double-CD set of Donovan’s seminal recordings titled “Donovan – The Essential Collection” will be released on April 17 through Epic/Legacy. The release will come three days after Donovan’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

“Donovan – The Essential Collection” contains all of Donovan’s 18 songs that entered the Billboard Hot 100 and UK national chart between 1965 and 1973, and another 14 carefully chosen album tracks. More than half of the 18 tracks on the first disc are present in their original mono mix, including the acoustic-based folk-rock tracks recorded for the UK’s Pye Records in late 1964 and 1965, and some Epic cuts from 1966.

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A two-CD Art Garfunkel collection titled “The Singer” will be released by Sony Legacy in April. “The Singer” contains 15 Simon and Garfunkel classics, plus an extensive gathering of solo Garfunkel material, taken from 1973’s “Angel Clare” through to 2007’s album of standards, “Some Enchanted Evening.”

Art Garfunkel chose the tracklist for “The Singer” and also provided track-by-track annotations, which appear in handwritten form in the booklet. For “Cecilia,” Garfunkel offered the following quirky observation:

Art Garfunkel’s “The Singer” tracklist

CD One

• “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (Bridge Over Troubled Water, 1970)
• “All I Know” with Jimmy Webb (Up ‘Til Now, 1993)
• “Perfect Moment” with Buddy Mondlock & Maia Sharp (Everything Waits To Be Noticed, 2002)
• “Scarborough Fair/Canticle” (Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme, 1966)
• “Cryin’ In The Rain” with James Taylor (Up ‘Til Now, 1993)
• “I Only Have Eyes For You” with Nicky Hopkins (Breakaway, 1975)
• “The Boxer” (Bridge Over Troubled Water, 1970)
• “Cecilia” (Bridge Over Troubled Water, 1970)
• “99 Miles From L.A.” (Breakaway, 1975)
• “Wednesday Morning 3AM” (Simon & Garfunkel Live From NYC, 1967) (2002)
• “(What A) Wonderful World” with James Taylor and Paul Simon (Watermark, 1978)
• “Bright Eyes” (Fate For Breakfast, UK, 1979)
• “Two Sleepy People,” arranged by Dick Hyman (Up ‘Til Now, 1993)
• “Skywriter” (Up ‘Til Now, 1993)
• “My Little Town” (Breakaway, 1975)
• “For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her” (Simon & Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits, 1972)
• “Some Enchanted Evening” (Some Enchanted Evening, 2007)
• “Disney Girls” with Bruce Johnston and Toni Tenille (Breakaway, 1975)
• “The Thread” with Maia Sharp and Buddy Mondlock” (Everything Waits To Be Noticed, 2002)
• “Barbara Allen” (Angel Clare, 1973).

CD Two

• “Kathy’s Song” (Simon & Garfunkel – Old Friends: Live On Stage, 2004)
• “Scissors Cut” (Scissors Cut, 1981)
• “The Sound Of Silence” (Wednesday Morning, 3AM, 1964)
• “Breakaway” with Graham Nash and David Crosby (Breakaway, 1975)
• “So Long Frank Lloyd Wright” (Bridge Over Troubled Water, 1970)
• “Waters Of March” with Billy Payne (Breakaway, 1975)
• “Old Friends / Bookends” (Bookends, 1968)
• “The Decree” (The Animals’ Christmas, 1986)
• “A Hazy Shade Of Winter” (Bookends, 1968)
• “El Condor Pasa” (Bridge Over Troubled Water, 1970)
• “I Wonder Why” with Kenny Rankin (Lefty, 1988)
• “The Promise” with Steve Gadd (Lefty, 1988)
• “I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face” (Some Enchanted Evening, 2007)
• “When A Man Loves A Woman” with Michael Brecker (Lefty, 1988)
• “O Come All Ye Faithful” with Eric Weissberg (Acoustic Christmas, 1990)
• “April Come She Will” (Sounds Of Silence, 1965)
• “Mrs. Robinson” (Bookends, 1968)
• “A Heart In New York” with Michael Brecker (Scissors Cut, 1981)
• “Song For The Asking” (Simon & Garfunkel Live 1969, 2008)
• “In Cars” (Scissors Cut, 1981).

“The Singer” is available for pre-order now:

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Happy Birthday to Carole King who is 70-years-old today.

King was born Carol Klein on February 9, 1942 in Manhattan, New York, and grew up in Brooklyn. She was still in her teens when she scored her first number one as a songwriter – the Shirelles’ “Will You Love Me Tomorrow,” co-written with her husband Gerry Goffin. The partnership with Goffin would produce some of the most memorable hits of the 1960s, including “One Fine Day,” “Up On The Roof,” “I’m Into Something Good,” and “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.” The Goffin and King songwriting team was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.

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