Donovan “For Little Ones” and “Wear Your Love Like Heaven” 1967. Also released as the double-album box set (one of the first in rock) A Gift From a Flower to a Garden. For budgeting purposes, Donovan also released the double album as two single records in the US, which is what is pictured here. (These are originals from my Aunt Jeanie; we were visiting my folks recently and they tasked us with helping to clean out their vinyl collection and these came home with us.) Wear Your Love Like Heaven is electrified psychedelic folk while For Little Ones is acoustic, geared toward “the dawning generation.” Until now, I wasn’t familiar with either record, not even the single “Wear Your Love Like Heaven” which went to #23 in the US. The single’s B-side “Oh, Gosh!” is pretty decent and “The Land of Doesn’t Have to Be” isn’t too bad, but the rest of Wear Your Love Like Heaven isn’t great (sorry Aunt Jeanie); “Little Boy in Corduroy” is especially cringe-inducing and while the lyrics to “Under the Greenwood Tree” are amazing (written by Shakespeare), the musical treatment Donovan gives the bard is too childlike for my tastes (I usually like 60′s psychedelic organ but it’s way too plink-plunky). For Little Ones is super-English-folky starting off with  “Song of the Naturalist’s Wife” when I almost stopped listening at the start of the record because that track begins with an infant crying which is unbearable (I don’t think it would have bothered me as much pre-motherhood but that particular frequency now aggravates my nervous system at a cellular level) but then the next track “Voyage Into the Golden Screen” is all Maypole medieval faery castles, not my favorite but better than sobbing babies. The rest of the album is mellow acoustic strumming with some occasional flute and harmonica, OK but kinda boring (again, sorry Jeanie!).