Barabajagal

Barabajagal is the seventh studio album and eighth album overall from British singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released by Epic Records in the United States on 11 August 1969, but was not released in the United Kingdom because of a continuing contractual dispute that also prevented Sunshine Superman, Mellow Yellow, and The Hurdy Gurdy Man from being released in the UK.

==Background== Donovan had released a series of successful singles and albums since 1965, making him one of the biggest pop stars of the era and a key symbol for the 60s "flower child" generation. He began sessions for the follow up to 1968's The Hurdy Gurdy Man directly after his second tour of North America in the fall of 1968. His original concept for the album was to be titled Moon in Capricorn, consisting of a series of gentle acoustic children's songs similar to the For Little Ones disc of A Gift from a Flower to a Garden. However, he was recording other more typical pop/rock material at the same time, and the children's folk album was eventually scrapped in favor of a pop album combined from different sessions throughout 1968 and 1969 in its stead. Most of the songs intended for Moon in Capricorn were eventually released on 1971's HMS Donovan and the 2005 box set Try for the Sun: The Journey of Donovan. It was also around this time that his relationship with producer Mickie Most began to show strain, with Donovan electing to produce some of the songs on the album himself or with other collaborators.