"Atlantis," Donovan
The Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan turned eighty years ago this past Sunday (May 10), so here's clip celebrating his birthday - images of aquariums and ocean waves set to his song "Atlantis."
Donovan wrote "Atlantis" about the mythical continent of the same name and included it on his 1969 album Barabajagal after having released it as a single the previous year. the description of Atlantis in the song's lyrics draws greatly from Ignatius L. Donnelly's 1882 book, "Atlantis: The Antediluvian World." The myth of Atlantis was popular with the hippies Donovan was one of back in the day, and the idea of a lost continent from the days of antiquity would continue to fascinate people. It fascinated French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, who searched the seas, mainly the eastern Mediterranean, for the lost continent in the mid-1970s before concluding that the story of Atlantis was just that - a story.
As for Donovan's song "Atlantis," it reached number seven on the Billboard singles chart when it was first released. Thought filled with a long spoken verse and repetitive lyrics in a long fade-out that sounds like the result of too much marijuana, it may be one of the greatest records ever made. Enjoy this Music Video Of the Week.
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