"There Is a Mountain," Donovan (1967)

Zen Buddhism you can dance to

Peak: #11 on the Hot 100
Streams: 3.3 million

I’ll say this for Donovan: His spiritual journey was not for show. He rose to fame in the late 60s, making trippy pop music with acid-trip lyrics and Eastern instruments. Then he kept it up. As recently as 2022, he was using his records to espouse his Goddess-driven worldview.

This affects how I hear a song li…