I saw Donovan at the Seattle Opera House late 1968. After a break, Donovan came on stage, sat on a big bean bag chair, only his accoustic guitar, no microphone and sang Lalainia. You could have heard a pin drop! Memorable!
Donovan Leitch mother had a sister Elspeth Jean Leitch.... she moved to N.Z.with husband John kenneth Green...I met their son Kevin Ian Green had his daughter haidee Kelly Green they all have same features Haidee beautiful born 2 April 1977..nice child no tattoos no drugs no trouble ..... 😊 glad you enjoyed listening to Donovan. ✌ ☮ 🕊
This song has a special place in my heart... I had the pleasure of seeing him live in concert in my teens (60s) when he first released this song. He came on stage, sat on a large pillow and sang into the knight with his magical soothing voice.... I attended the concert with someone that knew him, my art school friend at the time, her name was Rona...it was a magical evening!
Beautiful song . Donovan is perfect voice and great songwriter . Love his look her. This song "Lalena" is masterpiece. A great moment from the musical 60's Love you Donovan ❤
After all of these years of loving music from this era I just today bought Donovan's "Greatest Hits" record, THIS song is so fine, he has such grace within his vibrato, what a voice.
Those are my favorites to, I saw him in Santa Barbara many years ago, here I realize what a beautiful voice he had that I didn’t appreciate fully in the 60s, This beautiful Scottish Taurus. I also love the song not well known “mad John’s escape.” And “Atlantis. “ He was one of the most sensitive song writers/singers. By the way aren’t you a singer Rosie? I remember your name back in the day
My mothers name is Lalainia, pronounced the same. She always gets compliments on her name and my grandfather named her after this song. I will always connect her with this song.
The song is named after an actress that Donovan liked very much who did a character in a stage play musical and movie that Donovan liked The actress' name was Lotte Lenya from the 1920's/30's
Si, Lotte Lenya era la moglie di Bertolt Brecht, che insieme a Kurt Weill ha composto L’opera da tre soldi - The Threepenny Opera - in cui Lenya interpreta il ruolo della prostituta Jenny Diver. Quel ruolo ispirò Donovan.
I am named Donovan, after Donovan, and I have only recently begun to appreciate the great love my father must have been wanting to share with me from before the time I was actually born this time around. God Bless you, Lalena
Just as contrast to other reminiscences to music: As a child I heard this, and, as is usual for surfers. it remains, elastic, in the mind,surely for the lifetime of neural connectivity. So, suddenly remembering it, out of the blue, as it were, while considering a marvelous and beautiful girl I once knew, who had written me of her choice to return to Kyiv - and Kyiv is become a dangerous place these 3 days of February's end and early March. (we, dancing ballet to Russian rock music one Christmas night in an exotic carpet store, holiday shoppers clustering at the door to watch - "I wanted to be ballet dancer when young. Was told, 'you will be skater' " she recounted. ) Tatiana - Tanya - is not Lelania (will you, i hope, be warm this night? And you, listener?) The song, arcing with my mind and body in the Blue and Offshore of a La Jolla winter reef, alone, seemed always incongruous. It is, rather, as if about a prostitute, waking as night falls, another night, a life, of loveless intimacy. Donovan Lietch sings it with the nuance and sorrow of a heart's witness to that fate of too many Slavic girls turned out by cruel men. The cold thin snow of February, the exhaustion and deprivation, the portent of meaningless war, is very like such a cold destiny. - tangled in my twin paradoxical beauties, while others, You?, Her?, live in a darkness like the obscuring rainy sleet I see now approaching the forest, I would that you all lived capturing Sun and Blue and Falling Rainbows of the wind, taking only spray from Life's Exuberance.
When you touch the genius We all have inside As often as Donovan has. Your work will become A part of The Order of the Universe as well .Therefore Perfect !
This was the best version of Donovan; he stayed anchored to his folk roots but was full-on exploring other instruments, soundscapes, philosophies. This transition album captures a bright young artist starting to stretch his wings. His next album (Hurdy Gurdy) would be a magnificent psychedelic-folk explosion 💥😁
I have loved this song by Donovan for soo many years...my late husband introduced me to his music back in the 60's~~~~~Saw him perform live in the 80's...Just as Beautiful, too~A one man show~Love comes out everytime he sings~Thanks for sharing~
Never heard this song before tonight. I don't know how! I loved it instantly, moments ago when I first heard it by Deep Purple. And love this version even more. Why oh why didn't I hear this back in the very early 80s, as a teenager, when I was just discovering 60s and 70s songs, and rejecting the often rotten 80s songs...and learning to play my guitar in my bedroom?? This song would've instantly gone to the top of my personal guitar practice list. Life is too short to listen to bad music...just because the whores of the music industry throws it over the fence at you. Let it bounce off! If it's not any good. And instead look for sublime music like this. The lost and excellent songs that, though old, will be new to you! I will be listening to this, in all its yet to be discovered versions for MANY, MANY decades to come! Thank you for putting it up!
An all-time favorite Donovan song. I got his autograph once, and I smile whenever I see it and remember where I was during this, Season of the Witch, or a dozen others. Thank you for sharing.
@@c.a.t.732 I agree. Yeasr ago on another forum a friend called me out for saying I never thought Dylan could sing . My friend said" his voice was unique" I said so was Donald Ducks but I don't want him singing to me
On this day in 1968 {September 29th} "Lalena" by Donovan entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #73; and on October 27th, 1968 it peaked at #33 {for 2 weeks} and its second week at #33 was its 6th and last week on the Top 100... It reached #71 on the Australian Kent Music chart... Between 1965 and 1973 the Scottish singer had seventeen Top 100 records; four made the Top 10 with one reaching #1, "Sunshine Superman" for 1 week on August 28th, 1966... He just missed having a second #1 when "Mellow Yellow" peaked at #2 {for 3 weeks} on December 4th, 1966... Donovan Philips Leitch will celebrate his 69th birthday come next May 10th {2015}...
How beautiful it would be to live in a time , where Sunshine Superman would be No 1 of the Billboard 100 . Not this sad and devastating times like today , with hatred for every living creature , incl. ourselves . It must have been a time when humans had reached the highest level of what it means to be human . Peace out & don' t let the bastards grind you down .
@@michaelworse6034 Mike I was 14 at the time, the music was better, no doubt, but Vietnam, Civil rights rioting, major assassinations of beloved leaders & always the cold war's sword of Damocles hanging o'erhead ! It really wasn't a picnic. The year before Sunshine, was Barry McGuire's 'Eve of Destruction & 2 yrs after was the Stones, 'Sympathy for the devil!' So it was kinda like the 60's were the stomach infant alien, but now it's all grown up & really causing havoc upon spaceship Eartb! And yes, NOW it is WORSE ! Sorry about that Mike ! 😊
@@jerryshunk7152 Thanks for your reply . I was a 5 year old child at that time , with no idea how great this music was . Learned it 10 years later , love it to this day . Peace out ✌️
@@michaelworse6034 Thanks Mike, yes & my age allowed me to be listening to my sisters records in the 50's when I was your age. So I really have MAJOR LEAGUE culture shock from the gradual ruination of modern American music over the decades up till now !😢
@@jerryshunk7152 That’s what I did with my dad‘s single records of which he has about 50 . Still has . 82 and still kickin“ ! Elvis / Jailhouse rock , Love me tender , Mr.Postman. Started listening when I was about 10. Wanna be your teddy baer
Wenn es in einem Lied soviel Hingabe, Leidenschaft und Liebe geben kann, soviel Reinheit, wie kann es dann sein, dass es Verderbtheit, Unmoral und Krieg quasi als Gegenpol gibt? Es ist unsere Wahl, in welche Richtung wir streben. Donovan hat gut gewählt.
I saw another lip synching video of Donovan doing this song. No doubt one would prefer a live performance, but don't forget, he wrote the song and he sang on the original recording, so he's not misrepresenting himself. What you see is a visual but not audio performance of the song. If you are in the music business, this is not unusual. You have a hit song and they book you everywhere possible for maximum exposure, and it costs a lot less to travel without a band.
To me this is Donovan at his best. He looks so pure and intent. I love his look her. His voice echoes. I could watch and listen to this all day
I saw Donovan at the Seattle Opera House late 1968. After a break, Donovan came on stage, sat on a big bean bag chair, only his accoustic guitar, no microphone and sang Lalainia. You could have heard a pin drop! Memorable!
anit this a pity peoples?
Saw hin SF 5years ago,,, he did the same than beab bag and all, a remarkable artist.....
awesome! He's one I missed. Legend.
Donovan Leitch mother had a sister Elspeth Jean Leitch.... she moved to N.Z.with husband John kenneth Green...I met their son Kevin Ian Green had his daughter haidee Kelly Green they all have same features Haidee beautiful born 2 April 1977..nice child no tattoos no drugs no trouble ..... 😊 glad you enjoyed listening to Donovan. ✌ ☮ 🕊
I was there
This song has a special place in my heart... I had the pleasure of seeing him live in concert in my teens (60s) when he first released this song. He came on stage, sat on a large pillow and sang into the knight with his magical soothing voice.... I attended the concert with someone that knew him, my art school friend at the time, her name was Rona...it was a magical evening!
I love it, cheers from Cologne 😀🎉🍷🎉🇩🇪
I saw him at the same time at Kent State Univ., by far the best concert I ever saw up until Neil Young in June
Never have I laid eyes upon a more beautiful being than Donovan😪🕊
I agree with that... He was radiant-looking in this performance.
Beautiful. And Donovan is so perfect in voice and looks while singing this ballad. A great moment from the musical 60s.
Beautiful song . Donovan is perfect voice and great songwriter . Love his look her. This song "Lalena" is masterpiece. A great moment from the musical 60's
Love you Donovan ❤
After all of these years of loving music from this era I just today bought Donovan's "Greatest Hits" record, THIS song is so fine, he has such grace within his vibrato, what a voice.
the music of donovan makes life dreamy and enchanting. i love it.
Such a superb, unusual, moving song. I wish he wrote more like it.
This is probably my favorite Donovan song.
I love Donovan. Lalena. Wear Your Love Like Heaven. Hurdy Gurdy Man. Fab
Those are my favorites to, I saw him in Santa Barbara many years ago, here I realize what a beautiful voice he had that I didn’t appreciate fully in the 60s, This beautiful Scottish Taurus. I also love the song not well known “mad John’s escape.” And “Atlantis. “ He was one of the most sensitive song writers/singers. By the way aren’t you a singer Rosie? I remember your name back in the day
, I would loop this song, and listen to it about 100 times.. It fed my soul.. Profound arrangement.
My mothers name is Lalainia, pronounced the same. She always gets compliments on her name and my grandfather named her after this song. I will always connect her with this song.
May be my favorite of all Donovan's songs, and listening to it now after all this time, I know why.
Love that flute too.
The song is named after an actress that Donovan liked very much who did a character in a stage play musical and movie that Donovan liked The actress' name was Lotte Lenya from the 1920's/30's
Si, Lotte Lenya era la moglie di Bertolt Brecht, che insieme a Kurt Weill ha composto L’opera da tre soldi - The Threepenny Opera - in cui Lenya interpreta il ruolo della prostituta Jenny Diver. Quel ruolo ispirò Donovan.
I am named Donovan, after Donovan, and I have only recently begun to appreciate the great love my father must have been wanting to share with me from before the time I was actually born this time around. God Bless you, Lalena
This is one of my very favorite Donovan songs
He's looking so cool in chilled on his clothes & his audience so formal in suits , wink
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He appealed to all ages n sectors. Unique
Una canzone che fa sognare, da ascoltare da soli, al buio, nei momenti speciali. Nonostante il tempo trascorso, sempre viva.
Such a beautiful man and one of his most beautiful songs!
Now a grown (Older) man. NOTHING brings the feelings and a tear faster than this song. No greater thanks for the memories. Tour more
I've always loved his voice.
Run your hands through your hair
Paint your face with despair
Heartbreaking lyrics.
Named my daughter after this song , they also call her Lani , I just couldn't think of a more beautiful name at the time ,
Such a Beautiful song my late father gave my little sister the name Laleinah, when she was born.❤
I have always assumed this is about Lotte Lenya
A very unusual voice. He is great, I saw him live several years ago.
Merveilleux DONOVAN quel poète ! Merci
I was digging this song when it first was released (back when I was 12). And I'm still digging it today. It's just a very cool tune (and arrangement).
Me too!!
when i first heard this song i started crying. its such a beautiful song.
Donovan for a long time kept pumping out great music.
All time great
So underrated. Great and wholly original
This is so so beautifull i love it.
❤beautiful song
Beautiful and pure. A classic.
Beautiful
My very favorite of Donovan❤
I so remember this song.....always loved it and thought it was the most beautiful song I had heard
Just as contrast to other reminiscences to music:
As a child I heard this, and, as is usual for surfers. it remains, elastic, in the mind,surely for the lifetime of neural connectivity.
So, suddenly remembering it, out of the blue, as it were, while considering a marvelous and beautiful girl I once knew, who had written me of her choice to return to Kyiv - and Kyiv is become a dangerous place these 3 days of February's end and early March.
(we, dancing ballet to Russian rock music one Christmas night in an exotic carpet store, holiday shoppers clustering at the door to watch - "I wanted to be ballet dancer when young. Was told, 'you will be skater' " she recounted. )
Tatiana - Tanya - is not Lelania (will you, i hope, be warm this night? And you, listener?)
The song, arcing with my mind and body in the Blue and Offshore of a La Jolla winter reef, alone, seemed always incongruous.
It is, rather, as if about a prostitute, waking as night falls, another night, a life, of loveless intimacy.
Donovan Lietch sings it with the nuance and sorrow of a heart's witness to that fate of too many Slavic girls turned out by cruel men.
The cold thin snow of February, the exhaustion and deprivation, the portent of meaningless war, is very like such a cold destiny.
- tangled in my twin paradoxical beauties, while others, You?, Her?, live in a darkness like the obscuring rainy sleet I see now approaching the forest,
I would that you all lived capturing Sun and Blue and Falling Rainbows of the wind, taking only spray from Life's Exuberance.
When you touch the genius We all have inside As often as Donovan has. Your work will become A part of The Order of the Universe as well .Therefore Perfect !
DONOVAN !vraiment magnifique !...
確か両面４曲ほど入っていたにもかかわらず、このラレーニャにばかりレコード針を乗せていた。何だかすべてを受容されているように感じた優しく心地好く響く歌声。子供の頃は歌詞の意味がまったくわからなかったけれど、今ならあの頃感じた気持ちそのまま..そのままの歌詞なのだと思いました。感謝。
Love this song..Donovan sings it so softly and Beautiful~
Saw Donovan perform this on two separate occasions in Houston at Fitzgerald's. It was enchanting.
His tonal control & quality is amazing !!!
This was the best version of Donovan; he stayed anchored to his folk roots but was full-on exploring other instruments, soundscapes, philosophies. This transition album captures a bright young artist starting to stretch his wings. His next album (Hurdy Gurdy) would be a magnificent psychedelic-folk explosion 💥😁
At 1:25 he looks into the camera with a a face of profound innocence.
Yes, yes I see that now.
And he takes my breathe away ... he always came across as this sweet innocent young man. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Yea he’s stoned the hell out keeping his shit on cool
damn indeed
I have loved this song by Donovan for soo many years...my late husband introduced me to his music back in the 60's~~~~~Saw him perform live in the 80's...Just as Beautiful, too~A one man show~Love comes out everytime he sings~Thanks for sharing~
Beautiful song
Never heard this song before tonight. I don't know how!
I loved it instantly, moments ago when I first heard it by Deep Purple. And love this version even more.
Why oh why didn't I hear this back in the very early 80s, as a teenager, when I was just discovering 60s and 70s songs, and rejecting the often rotten 80s songs...and learning to play my guitar in my bedroom?? This song would've instantly gone to the top of my personal guitar practice list.
Life is too short to listen to bad music...just because the whores of the music industry throws it over the fence at you.
Let it bounce off!
If it's not any good.
And instead look for sublime music like this.
The lost and excellent songs that, though old, will be new to you!
I will be listening to this, in all its yet to be discovered versions for MANY, MANY decades to come!
Thank you for putting it up!
this song I adored when I was 13 (now 39) it still touches my heart :)
(and what a beautiful man :)))
An all-time favorite Donovan song. I got his autograph once, and I smile whenever I see it and remember where I was during this, Season of the Witch, or a dozen others. Thank you for sharing.
Hermoso recuerdo !
As much as I admire Bob Dylan, I challenge those who think Donovan was inferior to or copying him...did Dylan ever write something like this?
Who would ever think such a thing? They were friends. Bob liked Donovan's music very much. No need to pit one against the other.
Lay lady lay
I actually agree, as heretical as some might think of such an opinion. And he's also a vastly better singer. (Oh, I've really done it now!)
@@c.a.t.732 Yes, Dylan's voice was very gravelly
@@c.a.t.732 I agree. Yeasr ago on another forum a friend called me out for saying I never thought Dylan could sing . My friend said" his voice was unique" I said so was Donald Ducks but I don't want him singing to me
I love when Donovan looks at the camera--He's Great
I love this ballad
Wonderful, calm, pure, so Donovan...
Tears
Thx🙏 Garry .. Love
Love DONOVAN 💛💕⭐️😎⭐️💕💛
Great song and voice... but Deep Purple turned it into pure gold.
don't concur.
first cut is the deepest, though.
A truly beautiful song...stays with you all your life...
Elegiac. Donovan's voice so suited to this dreamy and sad song.
A beautiful tribute to the oldest profession.
My favorite of all❤
Best "live" version... right here.
A little too good. Think its a lip sync. But still good.
Goosebumps!!!
Fav song forever 💓 found it at 12 still my fV at 65
Voix sublime et mélodie touchante, j'ai toujours adoré
It conveys emotions in a sensitive way. Great
Spiffy. No dance moves. No screams. No rock out. Just over powering sincerity. How bout that.
A Beautiful human being.
This clip is from a show called 'Hollywood Palace'. Thanks for posting it - it is a lovely song
God, I really love it. By Donovan and by Deep Purple.
For me - first was by Deep Purple. Anyway - this song is godlike. Thank you.
A must for my channel. Thanks for this delicate song.
On this day in 1968 {September 29th} "Lalena" by Donovan entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #73; and on October 27th, 1968 it peaked at #33 {for 2 weeks} and its second week at #33 was its 6th and last week on the Top 100...
It reached #71 on the Australian Kent Music chart...
Between 1965 and 1973 the Scottish singer had seventeen Top 100 records; four made the Top 10 with one reaching #1, "Sunshine Superman" for 1 week on August 28th, 1966...
He just missed having a second #1 when "Mellow Yellow" peaked at #2 {for 3 weeks} on December 4th, 1966...
Donovan Philips Leitch will celebrate his 69th birthday come next May 10th {2015}...
How beautiful it would be to live in a time , where Sunshine Superman would be No 1 of the Billboard 100 . Not this sad and devastating times like today , with hatred for every living creature , incl. ourselves . It must have been a time when humans had reached the highest level of what it means to be human . Peace out & don' t let the bastards grind you down .
@@michaelworse6034 Mike I was 14 at the time, the music was better, no doubt, but Vietnam, Civil rights rioting, major assassinations of beloved leaders & always the cold war's sword of Damocles hanging o'erhead ! It really wasn't a picnic. The year before Sunshine, was Barry McGuire's 'Eve of Destruction & 2 yrs after was the Stones, 'Sympathy for the devil!'
So it was kinda like the 60's were the stomach infant alien, but now it's all grown up & really causing havoc upon spaceship Eartb!
And yes, NOW it is WORSE !
Sorry about that Mike ! 😊
@@jerryshunk7152 Thanks for your reply . I was a 5 year old child at that time , with no idea how great this music was . Learned it 10 years later , love it to this day . Peace out ✌️
@@michaelworse6034 Thanks Mike, yes & my age allowed me to be listening to my sisters records in the 50's when I was your age. So I really have MAJOR LEAGUE culture shock from the gradual ruination of modern American music over the decades up till now !😢
@@jerryshunk7152 That’s what I did with my dad‘s single records of which he has about 50 . Still has . 82 and still kickin“ ! Elvis / Jailhouse rock , Love me tender , Mr.Postman. Started listening when I was about 10. Wanna be your teddy baer
Will stand time so amazing song ever
La lena is Spanish for firewood. So in a sense, this is a woman who is destined to be consumed by the fire in her soul.
I love Deep Purples rendition of this song,this is good too
just wonderful
Brings back my lonely teen years
Know he’s not singing live, but the tune is beautiful. He made many great songs and he sang so well. Was influence on the Beatles.
I don’t understand both of you. Please explain. I want to understand.
How about it? Like isn’t that great
Such a pretty voice on him.
Such a beautiful song..Magical...Thanx for uploading :)
La mia favorita tra le preferite di questo meraviglioso artista!
This song was also on Deep Purples 3rd Album.
Awesome
とても、とても美しい曲。
加藤和彦が歌ってた記憶が有ります。
Wenn es in einem Lied soviel Hingabe, Leidenschaft und Liebe geben kann, soviel Reinheit, wie kann es dann sein, dass es Verderbtheit, Unmoral und Krieg quasi als Gegenpol gibt? Es ist unsere Wahl, in welche Richtung wir streben. Donovan hat gut gewählt.
memories of the happy years.........
BEAUTIFUL...
Donovan star super good luck
This is a beautiful song; Bowie's Word On A Wing is right up there with it.
I grew up with this song :)
Beautiful voice😁
Have heard Donovan play nylon and steel-string guitars.
Wish this guy had written more stuff...very talented human...
I'm not sure that Donovan wasn't too beautiful for this world.
I saw another lip synching video of Donovan doing this song. No doubt one would prefer a live performance, but don't forget, he wrote the song and he sang on the original recording, so he's not misrepresenting himself. What you see is a visual but not audio performance of the song. If you are in the music business, this is not unusual. You have a hit song and they book you everywhere possible for maximum exposure, and it costs a lot less to travel without a band.
When you find the truth in this i loved her so much but she was a free spirit
BEAUTIFUL SONG
@SAYZ I would love to pick your brain for memories! He has been an influence in my life since the 60's.