There Is a Mountain

Infobox Single
Name =There is a Mountain


Cover size =
Caption =
Artist =Donovan
from Album =
A-side =
B-side ="Sand and Foam"
Released =Aug 1967 (USA)
October 1967 (UK)
Format =7" single
Recorded = July 1967, CBS Studios, London
Genre = Pop music
Length =
Label = Epic 5-10212 (USA)
Pye 7N17403 (UK)
Writer = Donovan Leitch
Producer = Mickie Most
Certification =
Chronology= Donovan (UK)
Last single = "Mellow Yellow"
(10/1966)
This single = "There is a Mountain"
(1967)
Next single = "Jennifer Juniper"
(2/1968)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist =Donovan (USA)
Type =singles
Last album ="Epistle to Dippy"
(2/1967)
This album ="There is a Mountain"
(1967)
Next album ="Wear Your Love Like Heaven"
(12/1967)

There is a Mountain is a song and single by Donovan, released in 1967. It charted in the USA (Billboard: #11) and UK (#8).

Featured musicians are Donovan (vocals and acoustic guitar), Tony Carr on percussion , Harold McNair on flute and arrangement and Danny Thompson on bass.

Chart positions: # 11 (USA Billboard), # 9 (USA Cashbox), # 11 (USA Record World), # 8 (UK)

The Allman Brothers Band's "Mountain Jam" (1972) is a long, improvised jam song based on this song.

The Allman Brothers were inspired to improvise on "There is a Mountain" after hearing the Grateful Dead jam on the song's main riff. The Dead can be heard quoting a few bars of "There is a Mountain" in their song "Alligator," from the Dead's "Anthem of the Sun" album, released in 1968. An example of the Dead jamming live on the "There is a Mountain" riff can be heard at the 4:53 mark on the version of "Alligator" they performed at their Aug. 21, 1968 show at the Fillmore West. [http://www.archive.org/details/gd68-08-21.sbd.cotsman.17355.sbeok.shnf]