Silver Bells

Rudy & Frost Medley

The Christmas Song

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Can’t Help Falling In Love

Ruby Baby

A Very Good Year

Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl)

Unforgettable

Mercy Mercy Me

Tell Mama

The Day Before the Dream [from Dumb Love Songs]

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You Are the Sunshine Of My Life

Mack The Knife

Fly Me To the Moon

Grandpa

I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry

Lowrider

Landslide

That’s The Way I Feel (Remaster)

Ain’t That Apropos

It’s Over (My Friend) (Remaster)

{I Love You} Again (unbalanced stereo, need headphones)

Baby, You’ve Still Got a Long Way To Go

Songs About Life

Never Say Never

The Day Before the Dream

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A Song For You

Little Red Riding Hood

Rainy Night In Georgia

Play Me

Just My Imagination

If You Could Read My Mind

I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)
For lyrics, just click on the <cc for subtitles> Inside the video

Wonderful Tonight

Layla

Tupelo Honey

Widely considered to be about a prostitute, Donovan talked about this song at a 2004 event to promote his album Beat Café. He explained that “Lalena” is a composite title made up from the name of the German actress Lotte Lenya, who was the wife of the songwriter Bertolt Brecht, who along with Kurt Weill composed the play The Threepenny Opera, which starred Lenya as the prostitute Jenny Diver. (Listen for Lenya’s name in Bobby Darin’s version of “Mack The Knife).

Dale’s cover of Mac the Knife

Said Donovan: “I was fascinated with The Threepenny Opera as a socially conscious musical, so when I saw the movie version with Lotte Lenya I thought, OK, she’s a streetwalker, but in the history of the world, in all nations women have taken on various roles from priestess to whore to mother to maiden to wife. This guise of sexual power is very prominent, and therein I saw the plight of the character: ‘That’s your lot in life, Lalena/Can’t blame ya, Lalena.’ Women have roles thrust upon them and make the best they can out of them, so I’m describing the character Lotte Lenya is playing and a few other women I’ve seen during my life, but it’s a composite character of women who are outcasts on the edge of society: Bohemia.”