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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Irish Donndubhan "dark brown."
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Total area (2000): 0.311334 sq. miles (0.806352 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20331
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Location: 40.884031 N, 87.615746 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 60931
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Wikipedia
Donovan Philips Leitch (born 10 May 1946), known as Donovan, is a Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist. He developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music (notably calypso). He has lived in Scotland, London and California, and, since at least 2008, in County Cork, Ireland, with his family. Emerging from the British folk scene, Donovan reached fame in the United Kingdom in early 1965 with live performances on the pop TV series, Ready Steady Go!.
Having signed with Pye Records in 1965, he recorded singles and two albums in the folk vein, after which he signed to CBS/Epic Records in the US - the first signing by the company's new vice-president Clive Davis - and became more successful internationally. He began a long and successful collaboration with leading British independent record producer Mickie Most, scoring multiple hit singles and albums in the UK, US, and other countries.
His most successful singles were the early UK hits " Catch the Wind", " Colours" and " Universal Soldier" in 1965. " Sunshine Superman" topped America's Billboard Hot 100 chart and went to number two in Britain, followed by " Mellow Yellow" at US #2 the following year, and then 1968's " Hurdy Gurdy Man" in the Top 5 in both countries. He became a friend of pop musicians including Joan Baez, Brian Jones and The Beatles. He taught John Lennon a finger-picking guitar style in 1968. Donovan's commercial fortunes waned after parting with Most in 1969, and he left the industry for a time.
Donovan continued to perform and record sporadically in the 1970s and 1980s. His musical style and hippie image were scorned by critics, especially after punk rock. His performing and recording became sporadic until a revival in the 1990s with the emergence of Britain's rave scene. He recorded the 1996 album Sutras with producer Rick Rubin and in 2004 made a new album, Beat Cafe. Donovan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.
Donovan is the fourteenth studio album, and sixteenth album overall, from British singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the US (Arista AB 4143) in August 1977 and in the UK (RAK SRAK 528) with a different track order in October 1977.
Donovan is a popular Scottish singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
Donovan may also refer to:
Donovan (1886–1905) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from 1888 to 1889 he ran twenty-one times and won eighteen races. He was the leading British two-year-old of 1888 when he won eleven of his thirteen starts. At three Donovan won the Epsom Derby and the St Leger: he failed to win the English Triple Crown owing to a narrow and probably unlucky defeat in the 2000 Guineas. He set a world record by earning a total of £55,443 in win prize money. Donovan was a modest success as a stallion. He died after being injured in an accident in 1905.
Donovan may be both a surname and a given name.
Some people with surname include:
- Art Donovan (1924–2013), US American football player, NFL Hall of Famer
- Bill Donovan (1876–1923), a pitcher and manager in Major League Baseball
- Bill Donovan (Boston Braves pitcher) (1916–1997), a pitcher in Major League Baseball
- Billy Donovan, head coach of Florida Gators men's basketball team
- Carrie Donovan, magazine editor
- Casey Donovan (porn star), gay porn star
- Casey Donovan (singer), Australian Idol winner
- Charles Donovan, naturalist
- Chris Donovan (ice hockey), American ice hockey player
- Chris Donovan, American television director and producer
- Christopher G. Donovan, Connecticut politician
- Daisy Donovan, English television presenter, actress, and writer
- Dan Donovan (guitarist), singer/songwriter, guitarist for Tribe of Dan
- Dan Donovan (keyboardist), keyboardist for Big Audio Dynamite and Dreadzone
- Dick Donovan (baseball player) (1927–1997), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Don Donovan (1929–2013), Irish footballer and manager
- Edward Donovan (1768–1837), Anglo-Irish zoologist
- Elisa Donovan, American actress
- Gerard Donovan, Irish novelist and poet
- Hedley Donovan, editor in chief of Time Inc.
- Jacquelyn Piro Donovan, American musical theater actress and singer
- James B. Donovan (1916–1970), lawyer and sailor
- James G. Donovan (1898–1987), Democratic politician, former New York State Senator and US congressman
- James H. Donovan (1923–1990), Republican politician, former New York State Senator
- Jason Donovan, Australian pop rock singer and actor
- Johannah Leddy Donovan, American politician
- John J. Donovan, American entrepreneur and former university professor
- John Thomas Donovan (1878–1922), Irish nationalist politician
- Kevin Donovan, English football player
- Landon Donovan, American soccer player
- Lisa Donovan, American internet actress
- Mark Donovan, Welsh actor
- Martin Donovan, American actor
- Michael Donovan, voice actor and Emmy-nominated voice director
- Mike Donovan of Powell and Donovan, an Isaac Asimov character
- Patsy Donovan, Irish-American professional baseball player
- Raymond J. Donovan, US Secretary of Labor
- Roy Donovan, Australian rules footballer
- Shean Donovan, Canadian ice hockey player
- Stacey Donovan (Kelley Howell), model and porn star
- Tara Donovan, American artist
- Tate Donovan, American actor
- Terence Donovan (actor), Australian actor
- Terence Donovan (photographer), British photographer
- Tim Donovan, political editor for the BBC
- William Joseph Donovan, American lawyer and Office of Strategic Services chief in World War II, known as "father of the CIA"
Some people with given name include:
- Donovan Bailey, Canadian sprinter, former 100 meter world record holder
- Donovan Blake, American cricketer
- Donovan Frankenreiter, American singer-songwriter
- Donovan Gans, American football player
- Donovan Phillips Leitch, Scottish folk musician (professionally known simply as Donovan)
- Donovan Leitch, Jr., actor and son of Donovan Phillips Leitch
- Donovan McNabb, American football player, quarterback for the Washington Redskins
- Donovan Ricketts, Jamaican soccer player, goalkeeper with the Los Angeles Galaxy
- Donovan Slacks, leader of a militant British fishermen's uprising in the 1920s
- Donovan Simmonds, English football (soccer) player
Usage examples of "donovan".
Donovan was waiting near a cluster of people by the Aer Lingus off-ramp.
A half-hour from the time he set his foot in Beni Hassan two dancinggirls issued from the house of the ghdzeeyeh, dressed in shintiydn and muslin tarah, anklets and bracelets, with gold coins about the forehead --and one was Dicky Donovan.
Donovan recruited lawyers to start up the OSS, but the Brits used bankers to screw over people.
The charge combed my hair, it missed me that close, and Donovan crashed down on top of Hoolihan, who stroked his whiskers with a right that nearly tore his useless head off.
When a teenage hustler turns up a minidisc player that contains clues to a headline-grabbing missing persons case, he seeks out Donovan, the only man named on the tape.
It was possible that the Montegeau rubies Faith Donovan was designing into a necklace had come from one or more of the long, long list of stolen heirlooms, but he doubted it.
Father Donovan had made a point of keeping him well supplied with reading material - mostly The Farmer and Stockbreeder and innocuous stories of the saints.
Donovan had interviewed Storm on the Appalachia campus in June of 2016, waving job offers around.
For a big healthy male with everything going for him, he had to be the glummest man Donovan knew.
Donovan had driven up to pick him up in the Cadillac, and Olivia had the house in perfect order for him.
In it, I have one character, Gregory Powell, say to another, Michael Donovan: , look, let start with the Three Fundamental Rules of Robotics--the three rules that are built most deeply into a robot positronic brain.
I am glad to think that, whatever he thought of the book as fiction, he did not find it necessary to grant absolution as to the facts and the details of incidents in character and life pourtrayed in Donovan Pasha.
Her dreams last night had been a tangle of ageless jade shrouds and the immediate sexual reality of Kyle Donovan.
And if somebody wanted the snitching to stop, Patrick was in even greater danger than Donovan.
After seeing to the amenities, and setting Donovan loose in all the bathrooms with a wrench in each hand, to tighten and loosen whatever needed it, she had Petrie drive her to the flower market on Sixth Avenue and Twenty-eighth Street, and she returned two hours later with a carful of beautiful asters, and fragrant lilies.