Josie (Donovan song)

Infobox Single
Name = Josie


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Artist = Donovan
from Album = What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid
Released = February 18 1966 (UK)
Format = 7"
Recorded = 1965
Genre = folk
B-side = "Little Tin Soldier" (Shawn Phillips)
Recorded =
Genre =
Length = 3:28 (Side A)
3:02 (Side B) (UK)
Label = Pye 7N17067
Writer = Donovan
Producer = Terry Kennedy, Peter Eden, Geoff Stephens
Certification =
Chronology = Donovan UK singles
Last single = "Turquoise"
(10/1965)
This single = "Josie"
(1966)
Next single = "Remember the Alamo"
(4/1966, withdrawn)
Misc ="Josie" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. The "Josie" single was backed with a cover of "The Little Tin Soldier" by Shawn Phillips and released in the United Kingdom on February 18, 1966 through Pye Records (Pye 7N 17067).

Like Hickory Records in the United States, it was clear by early 1966 that Pye Records retained the rights to the tracks Donovan recorded while recording at Pye. Unlike Hickory Records, however, Pye retained the right to release future Donovan albums and singles as stipulated by Donovan's original contract. Meanwhile any new recordings from Donovan were legally barred from release.

As Hickory Records did with "You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond" and "To Try for the Sun" in the United States, Pye Records took an album track and released it as a single without Donovan's consent. "Josie" was originally released on Donovan's debut album "What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid" and was viewed as a single that could possibly sell well. Pye chose the "Fairytale" album track "The Little Tin Soldier" for the b-side. The "Josie" single became the first Donovan release to fail to chart in the United Kingdom, just as the "You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond" and "To Try for the Sun" singles failed to chart in the United States.