Great clip. Thanks for posting. In those days Donovan was often seen as a Dylan wannabee, complete with harmonica and pookie hat. I liked them both. Saw Donovan (Atlantis) in concert in Albuquerque. Good concert. Joan Baez, Stones too. Excellent comments on youtube!
Donovan definitely had a better voice than Dylan. His early stuff sounded a lot like Dylan but by the late 60’s he had a very different sound than Dylan - very mystical and mysterious. I was a total Donovan fan in the late 60’s when I was in Junior High School and had all of his albums. I didn’t get into Dylan until High School. I saw Donovan in a big stadium concert in Seattle sometime in the 80’s or 90’s. I saw Dylan in Seattle in the late 70’s - I think that’s when he was touring with his “Slow Train Coming” album and going through his “Jesus stage.” I remember he had black female gospel singers on that tour. I think he was briefly married to one of them. I also remember seeing Joan Baez sometime in the 80’s or 90’s.
(This was written when Donovan was in India with the Beattles studying Trancendental Meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It’s rumored that George Harrison helped to write it, although he is not credited in the copyright.)
Thrown-like-a-star-in-my-vast-sleep
I open my eyes to take a peep
To find that I was by the sea
Me gazing with tranquility
It was then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man
Came singing songs of love
Then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man
Came singing songs of love
“Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, gurdy”, he sang
hurdy-gurdy-man/Hurdy-gurdy-hurdy-gurdy-hurdy-gurdy-gurdy-he-sang)
“Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, gurdy”, he sang
“Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, gurdy”, he sang
Histories of ages past
Unenlightened shadows cast
Down through all eternity
The crying of humanity
It is then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man
Comes singing songs of love
Then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man
Comes singing songs of love
“Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, gurdy”, he sang
Here comes the Roly Poly Man and he’s singing songs of love
“Roly poly, roly poly, roly poly, poly”, he sang
“Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, gurdy”, he sang
“Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, gurdy”, he sang
This is a hurdy gurdy - a medieval instrument.
I agree. His mellow yellow prompted many kids to dry and smoke banana peels.Note: Quite rightly voiced by Paul McCartney . . .
I remember that! They were talking & joking about it on the top 40 radio stations. I even tried it myself, but it just made me cough. No other noticeable effects. 
Also on Boy Scout campouts we would make cigars by rolling toilet paper into cigar shaped rolls and smoke these. But I never inhaled. Very harsh! 
No oregano? 
No but I think we did try some dried ferns one time!
There was a hippie eagle scout, older than the rest of us, whom we thought was really cool because he had long hair and played guitar and sang a lot of the top hits of the day. He might have added some weed to his toilet paper cigars. 
In the Air Force I heard that guys used to steal the “poppers,” smelling salts, from the planes to get high. Next you’ll be telling me you kids tried mushrooms!
No, but we might have tried them if we found some growing wild. We probably would have tried smoking them. For some reason we were obsessed with smoking.
p.s. Carlos Castaneda talked about smoking psilocybin mushrooms with Don Juan. I actually tried to smoke some in the 90’s to see if it had an effect, but it didn’t. Apparently the fire destroyed the psilocybin, even though it is molecularly close to DMT (which is smoked).
Yet, I believe people smoked peyote, though I may be misremembering.
If they smoked peyote, I’ve never heard of that.
Some 90’s Donovan (with a 60’s sound) based on the Tao Te Ching.
Some recent Donovan. “Yeah man, I am shaman.”
Old hippies never die, they just trip out.
today i found out that you can hear Peyote!..
Peyote sounds trippy.
hahaha! how strange… hihihi 
Yeah it sounds exactly like it is! Totally trippy! 
Sounds kind of like this:
Trippy hippie peyote music from the 60’s.
Paramahansa Yogananda’s Lake Shrine survived the L.A. fires. Some of Gandhi’s ashes are kept here. Music by Michael Henry Dunn.
Words written by Rabindranath Tagore. Music by Paramahansa Yogananda,
Sung by Michael Henry Dunn.
