Season of the Witch - The Strangelings

[@markhathaway9456]

Great arrangement and performance. Donovan's music was truly avant garde.

[@sabarca714]

Dope track, Dope Cover.

[@Scatherfirst]

Donovan littered the 60's with brilliant singles. Great cover here.

[@Treaure]

There are sooooo many covers of this song. I'm into all of them

[@BuddWolf]

A good friend of mine just sent this video to me. He knows how much I love Halloween and Samhain. Great job here. I especially like the murder of crows flying about. Black cats are my favorite also. I own a black rescue cat named Merlin.

[@ravensky23]

Budd Wolf 1966 Thank you, glad you liked it!

[@IRONHEAD12701]

Happy Samhain ☠️🐈‍⬛🎃🧙💀🤖🤡👺

[@TopoGraph8]

Amazing! Best Cover Ever of this classic song .......Witchy! Donovan would love this one.

[@GrowLLLTigeRRR]

This is my second favorite cover. Second only to that of Richard Thompson.

[@RokulaLala]

Check out Julie Driscoll's.

[@craigwalker7415]

Great Version !

[@clairedavis529]

I reckon this is the best remake of Season.. Beautiful ♥️🌿

[@ruseartifice]

BRAVO!!!!! ***standing now**** BRAVO!!!! BRAVO Production!

[@michaelmuller7605]

I'm performing Donovan's "Season of the Witch" Monday night at "Big Ed's World Famous Blues Jam at The Red Lion in NYC and ran across this totally Way Cool version...wow!

[@ldflanagan]

Just now discovered this and fell in love.

[@DJSuzieQ]

Great version; haunting harmonies! Well done.

[@ravensky23]

Thanks, Sue! I've loved this song since I first bought Donovan's "Sunshine Superman" (yep, I'm old!) This version by The Stranglings has that great funky electric guitar that just does it for me! ;-)

[@sweetarry5764]

just happen to run across this song and love it!!

[@helenalovkis9445]

SO AWESOME ❤❤❤❤❤

[@Djsullivan011]

@ravensky23 Thank you for this video. The original Donovan song was strange and freaky, but the Strangelings recording (instrumentals, harmonies etc) make it the best recording of this song - - ever. Thank you for enjoying it - even 7 months ago. I also like their performance video - such crazy instruments. I think they are playing (i'm making up the word) Electric BassoMandolelios Thank you so much (Player of Treble Ukelelian. DJS)

[@creepychick13]

Wonderful imagery and great song! Loved it :~)

[@cherylcormier5440]

Just the best version of this song

[@DUNGEONCRAFT1]

Great harmonies. So glad I found this!

[@thizizliz]

Well yeah, but when I first listened to Donovan back in the 60s I didn't know he helped knitters do better; "pick up every stitch". Loved it. Seriously though Debbie, great imagery and you are right - it's a beautiful version of a great song.

[@mlong1954]

@TheSoSoAgnostic I still find VF version the most enjoyable, and its ability to take one back to the 60's, hits home!

[@LolitaVooDooDoll]

Beautiful 🌹

[@brightphoebesays]

Great recording, great video! I've been looking through the clips for Donovan's original, and I like this one best!

[@loudestfan]

Very cool! Thanks for posting! Great job on the images! I must admit, I didn't know about The Strangelings. Great sound! I'm a fan!

[@samhain124]

Love it

[@rickwalker3290]

GREAT cover...and really great playing too!!!

[@michelzenitud5524]

Magnifique magique vidéo J'adore ! Excellente chanson aussi 👍🌹😚

[@rokluvr1]

just awesome. my favorite version i've found here.

[@slee2006]

Possibly my favorite version of a great song, and a really fine video, too! thank you!

[@dondiegodelapoya]

Thanks for sharing this. Good version of this track and great vid. I appreciate also the comments below the vid with the links and the lyrics. Great work!

[@eb311235]

I've heard a lot of remakes of this song over the years the vast majority don't even come close to the original Donovan song. It is very seldom that the remake of a song is better than the original and this is one of those rare instances. I'll be seeking out more of the Stangelings stuff if it is this good. Great work guys.

[@ravensky23]

Thanks, Clair, I've been wanting to do this version of the song since I first heard their album this summer. But then I knew you'd like the imagery! ;-)

[@Mojave888]

A great cover of a great song!

[@SuperAmos2009]

Black Cats are so adorable!!!

[@Me123-c8g]

2024 and rockin this ❤

[@RaVenDaWn999]

Another great version of the spellbound song sung by so many, yes Donovan's studio version with Jimmy Page on lead, under rated, and Kooper's blues trio (lost names, hard night, yup) they made a subtle eerie version, this one has that same feel, maybe a bit too accessible, I love the song in the raw, unrehearsed and possessed, I've been conjured and allured by many a performance, won't make it to public focus, and maybe don't want to. My girlfriend back then (um-hum, I have been collecting years, and for the price of a piece of happy soul, you may have some, only to share though, these were hard earned years, an investment in my present condition, being wiser, although in disrepair, I value every moment, and always the best, shared.. connects us all), I digress, possibly to primordial, or even back so far, form was not yet en vogue, yet she was always looking just like Cleopatra in her short shorts (Bang!) or in her flowing white gown, Lisa, the High Priestess of the Wiccan one of the most honest and kindest people I ever knew, and I was 25, she was 34, so we had no barriers, I met with her local Coven, then some came for events, I was never excluded or treated so welcome anywhere else I sought to explore. The celebration of the Equinox and Solstice, very earthy and actually joyous, I guess Lisa's season was keeping me allured, conjured and loving. She was also the Class Validictorian (sp?) and a lot taller, smarter, more game than even I. It was blissful, yet the dawn kept beckoning, so no matter I've moved out CA many times, I always end up back in. I know a town of only those who are "witches and warlocks" (I guess that would be how we say it, or do we call it all, "Wiccan". No matter.), and I grew up around two roads yet nobody in town knew much or thought to go there, no chatter, no touristas, it was by its own design ...spellbound, and hidden in plain sight. One day, on the grounds where all the teachers and students study, she just sways on over in her very mini white summer dress, puts a hand on my face and lays on the biggest kiss. It was talk talk all around the U. how the leather man from the woods, could be so close to such a woman as Lisa. She seemed unapproachable. One day, we decided to tale over the arts mag at the U. and I took poetry editor, left her Chief, as she was vastly more qualified. She met me at the door out with a smile and a bottle of May Wine. Like D'Jin in the bottle, she seemed released the more we hung out. Our lit&arts mag won top awards, yet the brass wanted us out. People tend to enjoy taking on the Wiccan identity, that's ok, it's the net, everybody's everything, and yes, this is my actual name, and we call my lines just branches on the Dirty Tree (33 of us post and watch through my pass, a lot to misdirect the profilers, and most, like Lisa, will not come on otherwise.). What fruit may grow is often how one takes it all, mine is sweet! Always sweet! Lisa and her people regard that they owe the nature of this planet and the weave of existence a nourishment. Oft taken in err, due to all that Oz may show, (the good witches, ignored for the play of the flying monkeys and the crabby pointed hat, I want a flying monkey, we could make a baseball league! Cool!). If it is now the Season, then please tell Lisa, I am with her, could she wear her mini and kiss my... soul. Do we have to regard the calendar? " A Howling " Haunting visuals mixing into these slicing notes, the melancholy mouth harp, steady and severe...... blues wave into the forest here have you ever felt the need to howl out in the graveyard? Nah, me neither, howling just happens, like when you see your own name on the stone, and you come to know... is so much toil and taint, check your guns at the gate and come on in, I'll buy you a shot of yesterdays for the moments forth and the curtain falls too early, we say god bless you, answers back, “I don't take requests anymore.” Oh my I must panic and I don't know how to - it rises yes it rises no stains left where the body dropped and it rises yes it rises this monstrous urge to stop the clock, I look back and see my future there This gravel road spins out my tires Go so fast goes right past Have you howled into the night Have you howled at the wolf inside Then you know the undertow within It has a sound like metal railing It is a mix of joys and suffering It is a howling yes It is a howling. ~Tentatio mortis honore~ By RaVen DaWn The jam bound to the bayou, ghost opera in the overgrown forgotten cemetery, There deep in the dirt roads around the swamps of Jackson, the band plays on…

[@Phil-r6k]

Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield and Stephen Stills, SUPER SESSION? Or is that on THE LIVE ADVENTURES OF MIKE BLOOMFIELD AND AL KOOPER? It’s been many years, but I had both albums and I remember their version.

[@RaVenDaWn999]

@@Phil-r6k I sold my LPs now have both on CDs. Great great versions , maybe best of all, yes thank you!

[@ravensky23]

The Strangelings are a relatively new compilation group founded by The Kennedy's (Pete and Maura). If you follow the links to the right in my info section you'll learn more about them. I first saw them in this guise this past summer at The Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. Maura has her own KZbin site (link to the right. THis is from tThe Strangelings latest album, which I love...and I'm older than dirt too! ;-) Glad you liked it, I had fun making the visuals.

[@missellendiane]

oooh well done;)))( great voice

[@missellendiane]

+rane garrard listening again:)))

[@mikelangley2967]

I like that song.the video is great too.thanks.😊)

[@bugsinrug]

This was awesome. hugs, Chris

[@jrl4907]

Great cover!

[@monkmchorning]

I like the harmony singing on the chorus. Spooky.

[@ksbeditor]

This is beyond awesome.

[@bulldoggielover38]

I love it! Done so well!

[@ElspethThePixie]

Love the video! It very nicely complements the song...

[@ravensky23]

Hi Judy! Thanks for watching the vid, really glad you like the song. Aren't the videos of the crows something? I love the raven courtship flight too. But of course I would! LOL

[@geraldschafer9508]

excellent video!

[@pierluigigassino3237]

So good....!

[@apemillenaria]

So nice and well done! Great.

[@milnoid]

That was a *great* cover, thanks!

[@angelkiss877]

That's a good cover

[@ravensky23]

Thanks❣️

[@Sunzu49]

You know, when I first heard this, I thought it sounded too...happy, compared to the original. But since my little sister has been listening to the original over and over again (she's obsessed with the thought of witchcraft right now), I started listening to this version more, and now, I love it. ;)

[@ravensky23]

I know! What a great song, eh? Maura even liked my tribute! Yeah! ;-) Thanks for stoping by!

[@MichaelSmith-lv6lg]

Nice cover! Very bluesy.

[@TigershifterG]

Love it sister

[@methesponge]

yea this on is a keeper !

[@TheNeonRabbit]

Awesome version

[@philsteakfreeman]

Great version. I especially like the Coral sitar lead!

[@toreckman8899]

Bravo.

[@WreckingCrewSos]

Fantastico!

[@Wolfen443]

@sweetqueento3, yeah I agree great video compilation of images to go alone with music.

[@sirchristopherlycan3264]

1:36 whoa there dancing birds

[@independentmusicstage]

Added to the Independent Music Stage “Happy Halloween” playlist (in October!)

[@TheNeonRabbit]

The Coral electric sitar gives it a tasty "retro" flavor.

[@darkspider5700]

Great

[@muskyme]

amazingly yum

[@CATALEPSIACATALEPSIA]

name of the cartoons at the beginning please?

[@ravensky23]

Sorry, I made this video over 16 years ago and can’t find, or remember, the name of the witch cartoon at the beginning.

[@KristaAMartin100]

Cool!

[@im4out]

cool...

[@gerrilynne2651]

.Like with anything and everything Humans go to extremes a lot with regard to their religions. I've read an in depth study on the Salem Witch trials before, and it showed a lot about human frailty. Much of the same kind of ignorance happened to complex wise women with great knowledge of the earth and her plants. True, I think, some go off the deep end with their worship, but for the most part I am quite convinced those who the self-proclaimed righteous called witches did themselves and society more harm than good.

[@Fylgja13]

hi sister . thank you for this video :o)

[@ravensky23]

@TheSoSoAgnostic Thanks! It never gets old, I even like it better than the original ;-) It was fun to put the images to the song too.

[@The_DC_Kid]

Very interesting rendition. Sounds almost like cats singing. Kinda eerie.

[@steeloned]

Wayne Cameron You know, that's exactly what it sounds like now that you mention it. From the amount of cat shots, I think their version is meant to be from felines point of veiw.

[@starfishsystems]

The harmonic interval they're using is based on the major second (it moves around a bit.) It's the same interval as you hear in train horns. And it's also - constructed the other way, the dominant seventh, the blues seventh. Yeah, and it sounds like both eh.

[@amen4ramen]

cool

[@macpotts8474]

I love this cover!! Where was the scene with the witch walking through the ruins filmed?

[@JommyCross]

Donovan cover, I say perfect like that performed by Bloomfield and Kooper: good!

[@5deadfox980]

Niice

[@ravensky23]

You can't imagine how much I wanted to make a knitting video fit in there for 'pick up every stitch' LOL

[@westgoten]

Check out Sam Gopal - Season of the witch for another awsome cover of this. Youll be surprised when you see who does the vocals on that one. :)

[@Djsullivan011]

@TheSoSoAgnostic Agree, agree, agree. Lou Rawls was bluuusier (you can't beat someone with a horn section, and who sang backup for Sam Cooke) - But this version is the most strange and mysterious, as follows (expands) the intent of donovan (i think).

[@Oceana57]

Thank you ravensky! Just a question tho, I'm older than dirt and I don't remember the Strangelings. How far back do they go? Is all their music so fine? Thanks again.

[@darxsxi9]

Where did you find that beginning cartoon of Brothers Grimm The 7 Ravens? That used to creep me out as a kid.

[@AStarryKnight]

*WICKED A+++++WESOME Witchy video...purrfect video and very enjoyable to watch. I loved your video, but not too crazy for this version of this song. I would post this same video with a few different songs; I put a spell on you by Bette Midler or even the original sung by a black voodoo woman would work and be cool, Dangerous Type (New cover on The Craft soundtrack) ect. This is just a GREAT video I think to waste on a so-so song! Great job visually and it does go & work great with the song too

[@shadowjammer]

A murder of crows 🦅🐦‍⬛

[@SuperRydawg]

lol> this is so killer its not even funny! this is my new favorite vers of this song! > i think the guy who wrote it has one of the worst lol>> love this!!>> posted to facebook on 10/31/12 11:25pm> ;-)

[@mrsSukiJones]

@TheSoSoAgnostic have you heard Joan Jett's version? It's cool as well =)

[@ergbudster3333]

Nice overdub on her vocal. (Later) Oh. Just looked at the other video posed by Christina Thompson. Not dubbed. There was three women in this band. Actual harmony. Well. Even nicer, yeh?

[@psynapsurfa]

nicely done... the vocal double tracking works well.. it all works very well. my only suggestion would be this... try making the vocal delivery a little more husky. a little more smokey.. this delivery is faultless, the singer is wonderful, just for me, it seems a little too smooth.. i am being incredibly picky tho. all in all it is brilliant. one of, if not the, best cover of this tune i have ever heard.

[@wesriggins]

kick ass girlz

[@rayraygearhart]

As mention before, the Mike Bloomfield and Alan Keeper version is the best, I believe.

[@FranciscoRodriguez-ue2by]

Can anyone tell me what the animation at the very beginning was?

[@merlinfarmer]

hot very very hot,,,thanx

[@ravensky23]

Hey girl, where did you go? It says your channel has been removed. Say it ain't so! :~(

[@Howinoshawa]

I hear Julie Driscoll diggin' this....

[@JommyCross]

Donovan cover, I say perfect like that performed by Bloomfield and Kooper...

[@RocksRolf]

best version since Julie Driscoll*s

[@Sunzu49]

Can you please tell me the sources of these video clips & pictures?

[@toofunnytowatch809]

sexy voice

[@glambee07]

Love the song Donovan version is better :p

[@robertschreiber8099]

+Valerie Garcia I like both. THIS one's kind of jazzy, mixed with some blues. IMHO, though.......

[@jeffreybetustak8361]

Valerie Garcia, Ya THINK??!!

[@chumptown259]

This version does it form me, in a way the original doesn't, likewise Pete Townshend's cover of save it for later

[@ergbudster3333]

Better shmetter. It's different that's all. Judging is for squares.

[@RaVenDaWn999]

Another day I may change my opinion, yet I will always favor the grind of the Donovan version, that Jimmy Page lead, really gives it a raw pulse, yet with the harmonic and eerie imagery in sound and sight, this is a fantastic mix. I see someone feels that judging is an error, yet we all do, when ever we decide which songs we may favor for the time we have. When time is tight (yeah, Booker T. Jones!) I may favor shorter songs, depending on my sometimes drastic tasks, I psych with special songs, ( Jimi , Tom Petty, some positive verse about challenges. ) Donovan is underrated. Never met him, seems like a great guy. I would love to bare the vocal of Gil Heron or Aida Victoria, (I should see if maybe...) although the crisp I think original Donovan version, still stands out, this is more a slow burning blues fuse, like the witchy dance covers of Paint It Black by Ciara and Marie, they stand on there own, almost as completely different songs, yet the originals are raw, gutsy, impact in tact, hits me like a wrecking ball. I so much agree dear Valerie, as a comparison, not a rating, so please excuse what petty things may be written, I think they just mean, everything and everyone is so unique, perhaps, we mortals make a rating or a contest out of everything. So you look like a "10". I guess that may be judgemental, to compliment someone on their beauty or an insight I may have missed, I guess we can no longer express, Valerie, there are buttons for it all! "LIKE" "ENJOYED" even "ETC..." and tiny cute emoji cats that hug with red heart shaped images, pretty awful when you've seen the movie TOURISTAS!!! My soul will find a way through this maze, I will slay the minotuars, critics, cynics, and most attorneys, many doctors, put our politicians in one sleeve jackets and watch laughing as we agree to let them sign their own checks, no toes now, and one sleeve fits all, I'm on a roll, uh- honor roll! I like something about your expression Valerie, so I layer down that maybe you will see what other would not go so far to reach for. Then again, is only worth the value of its Season. Thus I place this here for your amusement, maybe substantial, maybe just sunscreen to shield the silky skin from the soap and spin, we wash our brains, and strain the remains, yet the soul so eternal, and unbound, honors us with visions of truth, visions of dreams we can build, often just to see beyond the circus mirrors. I am hyponotized, oft beguiled, yes... " Gypsy Eyes " Nothing apt to Tether me aft Naught the farce Of the given spin Nor the face of faces within~ Perverse vortex My kiss is hither Thine eclipse solar Mine eclipse lunar~ Doubt as thou must~ Core to cover Inferno my lust Eternal my love~ Lest ne’er a past Nary can own us~ Thus time is nigh To let to pass Iron in fire my Desires to swim Warmly within your Deep gyspy eyes. ~by RaVen DaWn~ For lovers in mystique, And the moon is howling… Posted playlist for Arts Videos; High brow and low brow, even some no-brow, so pull up a vintage stout, some classy Mezcal (I eat the worm) and please be open, as I have compiled some curios of value in their own right, and often especially compelling with the new and classic art or "lyric" that is used, such as when Bob Marley fashioned WAR, ingenious and here soon if not already, the versions by his sons and daughters, with collaborators and versions such as Yankee B or Sly-And-Robbie, IV; again, talented to their levels in their own right, I have met and enjoyed some reggae talents, known and never-to-be, both all around especially town here and Montego!... the Carribean/Afro-Island/Africa/LatAm/JAMAICA AND, yes AND (is that "Acquisition N' Development" or is it "Amateurs Night In Dixieland" could be "Asking Naught of Deities") &... here in the Cruz, ( a Hole In The Wall for reggae, blues and "world" music, uh-huh, we have the best surfer dudes and dudettes! Hippies, hippies, yes we have hippies! 420 the Dudes like all abide! Vaping vaping, we are vaporous, obnoxious, give you a contact high driving by and our girls are all pearly divers, smell like oysters and do not shave their armpits, coz they like their muscles bearded, clams and billy-goats too, know-wut-i-mean-jellybean! -yes, that, no not that, the other thing, let's just face it. what ever you said, it was the other thing, oh gee, so course correct, a fella can change their mind, as often as they change their drawers, assuming we do not ride commando, and I often do (wink...) so I always carry an extra pair just in case I need to "go" in public, such as when I jumped up on that bad driver's car, rage, what rage, you want RAGE! oh, yes, xanax nation for sometimes good reasons, I joke and jest as the incurable we must, say ahhh, fuck it we are not here yet for a short time, so we must not live and be lost in false oasis and nursery rhymes! Yes life, ahh life and lemonade; fractured fairytales leaving us sunburnt in the shade, we grew up in the projects playing baseball with a dud grenade, until one day: ...damn thing went off and, lost K-man's arm, -put his bro, Lil' K, in a coffin, so I say I was born under tanks, take me quite literally, for what you come to know may be more than you are willing to believe, and so the dudes abide, some say it kills the pain inside, I think it only obscures the agony, what dwells inside of me, that I defy, with intensity, with my verse and my ways and my personal brand of insanity, for I am driven quite to madness and this is not a joke naught a jest, not for a poke and never just for FX, I am one sleeve, bees-in-the-brain, wake-with-a-woody (uh-huh), daffy, goofy, nothing like Disney, Clockwork Orange and One-flew-east-one-flew-west-one-I-flew-over-the-cuckoos'-nest, just call me Chief Broom if'n y'all want see glory 'fore ya' time... and anything of course that exhibits good jams with great oils and watercolors, sketches and photos, video displays and any damn kind of creativity I may file under "arts, crafts and culture" (+stuff)... so I post layered in and layered down for the hot-wired, the weird and inspired the evolutionary revolutionaries and all manner of dissident patriots of humanity,as Grandpa said, "Nobody knows nobody." to which we both grinned at my reply, "Then I must be Nobody, because I know them all." I place this here for you and must apologize that I've no time to repair the auto-scramble on my format... thank you and be well... ~RaVen DaWn~

[@umorusany]

i look in your window : )

[@moygo2]

Who is that at the 1:20 mark? She looks so much like my mom it's freaky!!! =)