Territory: U.S.
Label: Hickory Records
LP - LPM 123     mono?    
LP - LPS 123     fake stereo?    
Release date: April/June? 1965
Chart:
Billboard: 30th October 1965 / #30 / 23 weeks ?
Cash Box: #23 / 28 weeks ?
Record World: #25 / 25 weeks ?
Duration: 31.50 ?
Producer(s): Terry Kennedy and Eden-Stephens
Comment: What's Bin Did And What's Bin Hid retitled Catch The Wind for the American market

Territory: U.S.
Label: Sequel Records

CD - 1005-2     mono    
Re-release date: 26th February 1996
Chart: ?
Duration: 31:50 + 7:23 = 39:13
Producer(s): Terry Kennedy and Eden-Stephens ?
Comment: re-issue of original album with three bonus tracks
Listing for CD
1. Josie (3:27)
2. Catch The Wind (Version II) (2:57)
3. Remember The Alamo (3:05) [Jane Bowers ?]
4. Cuttin' Out (2:19)
5. Riding In My Car (The Car Song) (1:31) [Woody Guthrie]
6. Keep On Truckin' (1:52) [?]
7. Gold Watch Blues (2:32) [Mick Softley]
8. To Sing For You (2:45)
9. You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond (4:03) [?]
10. Tangerine Puppet (1:50)
11. Dona, Dona (2:55) [Aaron Zeitlin/Teddy Schwartz/Arthur Kevess/Sheldon Secunda/Sholom Secunda]
12. Ramblin' Boy (2:34)
    Bonus tracks
13. Why Do You Treat Me Like You Do (2:56)
14. Catch The Wind (Version I) (2:18)
15. Every Man Has His Chain (2:09)

Donovan's U.K. debut, What's Bin Did And What's Bin Hid was retitled Catch The Wind for the U.S. market, presumably to alert buyers to the fact that the hit single, Catch The Wind was on the LP and hence you could expect similar quality.

It is a cropped version of the cover of What's Bin Did And What's Bin Hid, made by chopping everything off from the title downwards on the U.K. cover.

Inside the CD booklet is a modified version of the photograph on the back cover of the U.K. LP (and maybe Catch The Wind - I don't own the original release so I don't know) and a reprinting of the liner notes to the original LP - this is Donovan. The CD has concentric circles etched onto the picture side, to attempt to make it look like a record. A nice touch, but not very convincing.

At the end of Keep On Truckin' on the CD, there is a tiny bit of Donovan saying, "I didn't know what I was singin' ..." before being abruptly cut off and then repeated. Turn it up loud to hear!

The album features a superior version of Catch The Wind to that previously released in the U.K. as a single two months before and also contains Donovan's only officially released instrumental, Tangerine Puppet. The U.K. original vinyl is worth about £10-£15 in good condition.

Notes (pertaining to the CD re-issue):

• Previous releases list Remember The Alamo as The Alamo and there it is credited to `arranged by Donovan Phillips Leitch', rather than Jane Bowers.
• Previous releases list Riding In My Car (The Car Song) as Car Car and other permutations.
• The CD booklet says Keep On Truckin' and You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond are written by Donovan, rather than arranged by him (which is what the original LP, What's Bin Did And What's Bin Hid states)
• ASCAP's files list Gold Watch Blues by Mike Softley, not Mick Softley.
• Previous releases list Dona, Dona as Donna Donna and list the writer credits as `Traditional - Arrangement unknown'. This is probably wrong. In addition, the CD sleeve changes the order of the authors as listed in ASCAP's files and changes the spelling of Teddi to Teddy. Are you interested in these details at all? Am I?
• ASCAP's files list Ramblin' Boy as The Ramblin Boy but you probably don't care about that at all.

Territory: U.S.
Label: Hickory Records