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{{Infobox album
| name = Donovan File
| type = [[Compilation album]]
| artist = [[Donovan]]
| cover = Donovan-The_Donovan_File.jpg
| alt =
| released = November 1977
| recorded = 1965
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[folk music|Folk]]
| length =
| label = [[Pye Records]]
| producer = Terry Kennedy, Peter Eden, Geoff Stephens
| prev_title = [[Donovan (album)|Donovan]]
| prev_year = 1977
| next_title = [[Star Discothek: Donovan]]
| next_year = 1978
}}

'''''Donovan File''''' is a [[compilation album]] from Scottish singer-songwriter [[Donovan]]. It was released in the United Kingdom (Pye FILD 004) in 1977.<ref>{{cite news |author= |date=January 26, 1978 |title=Donovan: The File |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/bracknell-and-ascot-times-donovan-the-f/174337120/ |work=[[Bracknell and Ascot Times]] |access-date=June 11, 2025}}</ref>

==History==
In 1977, [[Pye Records]] issued another set of Donovan's 1965 recordings in a double album titled ''Donovan File''. The album was part of a "File" series encompassing many bands and artists who recorded for Pye in the 1960s. The album featured nearly all of Donovan's 1965 recordings, excluding the single versions of "[[Catch the Wind (song)|Catch the Wind]]" and "[[Colours (Donovan song)|Colours]]", the French EP track "Every Man Has His Chain", and the EP version of "Ballad of a Crystal Man".

==Track listing==
All tracks by Donovan Leitch, except where noted.

#"Catch the Wind"
#"Why Do You Treat Me Like You Do?"
#"Remember the Alamo" ([[Jane Bowers]])
#"Cuttin' Out"
#"Car Car" ([[Woody Guthrie]])
#"Keep on Truckin'" (traditional; arranged by Donovan Leitch)
#"Gold Watch Blues" ([[Mick Softley]])
#"To Sing for You"
#"Josie"
#"[[You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond]]" (traditional; arranged by Donovan Leitch)
#"Tangerine Puppet"
#"[[Donna Donna]]" ([[Aaron Zeitlin]], [[Sholom Secunda]], [[Arthur S Kevess]], [[Teddi Schwartz]])
#"Ramblin' Boy"
#"Sunny Goodge Street"
#"Oh Deed I Do" ([[Bert Jansch]])
#"Colours"
#"To Try for the Sun"
#"Circus of Sour"
#"Summer Day Reflection Song"
#"Candy Man" (traditional; arranged by Donovan Leitch)
#"Jersey Thursday"
#"Belated Forgiveness Plea"
#"Universal Soldier" ([[Buffy Sainte-Marie]])
#"Ballad of a Crystal Man"
#"Little Tin Soldier" ([[Shawn Phillips]])
#"Ballad of Geraldine"
#"The War Drags On" ([[Mick Softley]])
#"Do You Hear Me Now?" (Bert Jansch)
#"Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)"
#"Turquoise"

==Personnel==
*Donovan – guitar, harmonica, vocals

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://donovan-unofficial.com/music/compilations/significant/the_donovan_file.html The Donovan File – Donovan Unofficial Site]

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