Manfred Mann's Earth Band

montage · January 06, 2017, 05:32:40 PM

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songs in this topic from Manfred Mann's Earth Band 1.= Davy's On The Road Again
2.= The Mighty Quinn
3.= Ha! Ha! Said the Clown
4.= Do wah diddy diddy
5.= If You Gotta Go

Manfred Mann's Earth Band are an English rock band formed by South African musician Manfred Mann. The band's hits include covers of Bruce Springsteen's "For You","Blinded by the Light" and "Spirit In The Night". After forming in 1971 and despite a short hiatus in the late 1980s/early 1990s, the Earth Band has continued to perform and tour through the present.
Mann started in the 1960s with the self-titled British invasion band that had such hits as "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" and "The Mighty Quinn" and then moved on to jazz fusion-inspired Manfred Mann Chapter Three before forming the Earth Band in 1971. In his 2003 biography, Klaus Voormann, former member of original Manfred Mann group and Beatles-associate, is alleged to have inspired the Earth Band's name by having suggested several times throughout the 1960s that Mann's soft pop style of those days had to become "earthier" and rockier, not least of all because of the seemingly effeminate image of Mann's earlier band which had led to a number of close encounters with violence, particularly in Ireland.[1] According to the officially approved version however, the name was chosen on suggestion of drummer Chris Slade in September 1971 and is related to the ecological movement ongoing at the time.[2]
The original line-up consisted of Mick Rogers (guitar and vocals), Manfred Mann (organ, synthesizer and vocals), Colin Pattenden (bass guitar) and Chris Slade (drums and vocals). In its very earliest stages, the band was simply billed as "Manfred Mann" and thus a continuation of the 1960s group. The quartet released their first single, "Please Mrs. Henry", in 1971. Their second single, Randy Newman's "Living Without You," was also released by "Manfred Mann" in Europe, but by "Manfred Mann's Earth Band" in the USA, where the track became a minor chart hit. On two non-charting single releases in the UK in 1972/73, the group was billed simply as "Earth Band", but otherwise, from 1972 forward "Manfred Mann's Earth Band" was the band name used on all releases. The membership of the Earth Band was stable between 1971 and 1976, during which time they released their first six albums.

montage · January 06, 2017, 05:42:05 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jPtWu-OYJI
[move][glow=red,2,300]i also love this song to much wow so good[/glow][/move]

The group's sixth album, 1975's Nightingales and Bombers, took its title from a World War II naturalist's recording of a nightingale singing in a garden as warplanes flew overhead; the recording appears in a track on the album (the US version included an extra track, a cover of Bob Dylan's; 'Quit Your Low Down Ways' sung by Mick Rogers).
The U.S. breakthrough for the band came in the third week of February 1977, when they charted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with a cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light" from The Roaring Silence. Before this hit, Mick Rogers had left the band (after the 'Nightingales And Bombers' album of 1975) and Chris Thompson (lead vocals, guitar) and Dave Flett (Lead guitar, backing vocals) had been quickly recruited to replace Rogers (although Rogers still contributed backing vocals to the album). While the Springsteen original from 1973's Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. has a folky, acoustic sound, the Earth Band's version is driving rock, combining Mann's Moog synthesizer and organ work with Flett's guitar.
The Roaring Silence also featured a guest appearance by jazz saxophonist Barbara Thompson, and Watch included two stand-out recordings from the band's live performances of "Davy's on the Road Again" and "Mighty Quinn". Taking advantage of the publicity of their hit song, the band re-released another Springsteen song, "Spirit in the Night", which the band had released the previous year on Nightingales & Bombers in a vocally re-cut version with Chris Thompson taking a new lead vocal in place of Mick Rogers vocal on the original album version. Following this popular success, the Earth Band released Watch which produced another hit single in "Davy's on the Road Again".
The 1980s[edit]

montage · January 06, 2017, 05:46:08 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxe0WRT_cck

"Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)" is a folk-rock song written by Bob Dylan and first recorded during The Basement Tapes sessions in 1967. The song was first released in January 1968 as "Mighty Quinn" by the British band Manfred Mann[2] and became a great success. It has been recorded by a number of performers, often under the "Mighty Quinn" title.
The subject of the song is the arrival of the mighty Quinn (an Eskimo), who changes despair into joy and chaos into rest, and attracts attention from the animals. Dylan is widely believed to have derived the title character from actor Anthony Quinn's role as an Eskimo in the 1960 movie The Savage Innocents.[3] Dylan has also been quoted as saying that the song was nothing more than a "simple nursery rhyme." A 2004 Chicago Tribune article[4] also claimed that the song was named after Gordon Quinn, co-founder of Kartemquin Films, who had given Dylan and Howard Alk uncredited editing assistance on Eat the Document.

montage · January 06, 2017, 05:49:38 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QN7kmOhBMw
"Ha! Ha! Said the Clown" is a song by Manfred Mann from 1967 which made #4 on the UK Singles Chart,[2] #10 on the Australian Singles Chart,[3] #1 on the Austrian Singles Chart,[4] #1 on the German Singles Chart,[5] #1 on the Netherlands Singles Chart,[6] #1 on the Norwegian Singles Chart,[7] #5 on the Swedish Singles Chart[8] and when covered by Keith Relf of the Yardbirds[9] made #45 on the Billboard Hot 100.[10]

montage · January 06, 2017, 05:54:00 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iTwlfDuG2s
Do wah diddy diddy is een nummer geschreven door Jeff Barry en Ellie Greenwich en oorspronkelijk in 1963 opgenomen door de Amerikaanse groep The Exciters. Het werd al snel gecoverd door de Engelse R&B, beat- en popgroep Manfred Mann. Het nummer is in Nederland en Vlaanderen vooral bekend door de versie van de Dolly Dots uit 1982.

montage · January 06, 2017, 05:57:19 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YBcZPtxwzk
"If You Gotta Go, Go Now" (sometimes subtitled "(Or Else You Got to Stay All Night)") is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1964. The first released version was as a single in the US by the UK group The Liverpool Five in July 1965, but this went uncharted in the US despite receiving much airplay, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. It was another English band, Manfred Mann, who then issued the song as a single in September 1965. This version reached number 2 on the UK charts.