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Lady of the Stars is the seventeenth studio album and nineteenth album from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United Kingdom (RCA PL 70060) and the United States (Allegiance Records AV 437) in January 1984.

History

By 1983, Donovan's albums were receiving little distribution in the United Kingdom and none in the United States. His popularity had steadily decreased throughout the 1970's and early 1980's, and mainstream record companies were not convinced that Donovan's albums could generate enough record sales to warrant release. Donovan decided that to win over the record companies and reach his American and British fans, he would record new versions of both "Sunshine Superman" and "Season of the Witch" for inclusion on his next album. Both songs were released on Sunshine Superman in 1966 and Donovan's Greatest Hits in 1969. The name recognition of these two songs would give the record companies marketing leverage and guarantee release.

In addition to "Sunshine Superman" and "Season of the Witch", Donovan updated three other songs from his canon. Two of these songs, "Lady of the Stars" (written for Donovan's wife Linda Lawrence) and "Local Boy Chops Wood" (written about Brian Jones) were originally released on Donovan in 1977. The other song, "Boy for Every Girl" was released on his 1973 album Essence to Essence. Donovan also included five new songs and titled the album Lady of the Stars for his wife Linda.

Although Lady of the Stars was released directly through RCA in the United Kingdom, the company did not distribute the album in the United States. Allegiance Records did pick up the album, however, and it became the first Donovan album to receive a U.S. release since Donovan in 1977.

Lady of the Stars has been the focus of many compact disc reissues since its original release. The reissues sometimes feature a different track order, and the album has rarely gone under its original title. One of the reissues even has the name Sunshine Superman, yet has little in common with the 1966 version of that album.

Track listing

Original album

Side 1

  1. "Lady of the Stars" (Donovan Leitch) - 4:37
  2. "I Love You Baby" (Donovan Leitch) - 3:28
  3. "Bye, Bye Girl" (Donovan Leitch) - 3:22
  4. "Every Reason" (Donovan Leitch) - 3:05
  5. "Season of the Witch" (Donovan Leitch) - 5:27

Side 2

  1. "Boy for Every Girl" (Donovan Leitch) - 4:39
  2. "Local Boy Chops Wood" (Donovan Leitch) - 3:29
  3. "Sunshine Superman" (Donovan Leitch) - 4:06
  4. "Living for the Love Light" (Donovan Leitch) - 3:44
  5. "Till I See You Again" (Donovan Leitch) - 3:14
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