DESCRIPTION:
From '' Bang, Bang You're Terry Reid ''
Label: Epic ‎-- BN 26427
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1968

Tracklist
A1 Bang, Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
A2 Tinker Tailor
A3 Erica
A4 Without Expression
A5 Sweater
A6 Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart
B1 Season Of The Witch
B2 Writing On The Wall / Summertime Blues
B3 When You Get Home
B4 Loving Time

Guitar, Vocals -- Terry Reid
Keyboards -- Eric Leese
Drums -- Keith Webb

Producer -- Mickie Most

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"Season of the Witch" is one of the first psychedelic songs, written by Donovan and first released in September 1966 on his Epic Records (USA) album, Sunshine Superman.

In the United Kingdom, a cover version by The Pandamonium was released as a single in November 1966 (CBS 202462), while Donovan's version was finally released in June 1967 on the Pye Records compilation Sunshine Superman.

The recording features Bobby Ray on bass and "Fast" Eddie Hoh on drums.

Background music in television and film

The song played faintly during a scene in the 1998 TV series "From the Earth to the Moon" -- Episode 2.
It appears in the 1978 film More American Graffiti and appears on the soundtrack album as well.
It was played over the end credits of the Gus Van Sant film To Die For.
It was used repeatedly in the series Crossing Jordan.
It was featured in the House episode "Words and Deeds".
It played at the end of the Grimm episode "The Thing with Feathers".
It was used in the witchcraft-themed Simpsons episode "Rednecks and Broomsticks".
It was included in the 2010 film The Other Guys at 1:12 into the film.
It was used in a 2010 ad for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.
It was also featured in the HBO documentary Reagan during a montage of footage of demonstrations in California during the late sixties.
The song is also featured in the first official teaser trailer for the 2012 animated film ParaNorman
It is on the soundtrack of Tim Burton's Dark Shadows.
It was used in an episode of Supernatural.

Cover versions

The song has been covered by many artists:

Julie Driscoll covered the song in 1967 along with Brian Auger on their album Open
Al Kooper and Stephen Stills covered the song on their album Super Session in 1968; the album's other featured guitarist, Mike Bloomfield, performed a version with Kooper at a New York "Super Session" concert eventually released on disc in 2003 as The Lost Fillmore Concert Tapes 12-13-68.
The Kooper-Stills version has been sampled in a number of hip-hop songs.
This version also features "Fast" Eddie Hoh on drums, who played on Donovan's original recording.
Sam Gopal covered the song on their album Escalator.
The acid rock band Vanilla Fudge achieved mild success with a cover of "Season of the Witch" in the late 1960s.
Terry Reid performed a ten minute cover of this song on his 1968 debut album, Bang Bang, You're Terry Reid.
Pesky Gee! (pre-Black Widow psychedelic rock band) covered the song on their album Exclamation Mark in 1969.
Suck recorded a version of the song on their album Time to Suck in 1970.
Stephen Stills covered the song on a solo album.
Hole covered "Season of the Witch" during their MTV Unplugged session.
Heretix covered the song on their EP "AD" in 1990.
Luna released it as a single (1996).
The Masked Marauders performed the song on their lone LP, with vocals by Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger impersonators.
Robert Plant covered it several times live. The first was in the medley "That's Why I'm In The Mood" in 1993, and in 1999 when he toured with his short lived project Priory Of Brion.
Dr. John On the Blues Brothers 2000 Soundtrack.
Lou Rawls recorded the song for his 1999 album Brotherman!: Lou Rawls Sings the Hits.
Babylonian Tiles.
Joan Jett on her released-in-Japan album Naked.
Richard Thompson on the Crossing Jordan soundtrack album Jordan Crossing; this version was used in opening sequence of an episode of the television series, Crossing Jordan.
Jenny Devivo on the Hed Kandi Nu Cool 4 album in 2000.
Vanilla Fudge on the album The Return from 2002.
Bobby Hughes in May 2005
The Strangelings in 2007.
Karen Elson as a b-side to her first single from her 2010 debut album
Alan Pizzarelli as "Boneyard, Ghoul of the Blues" on his 2010 debut album, Voices from the Grave.
Tea Leaf Green covered it many times live.
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