Nightingales & Bombers

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Nightingales & Bombers
Studio album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Publication
(s)

August 22, 1975 (UK & Europe)
August 24, 1975 (USA)

admission

1975

Label (s) Bronze Records (UK & Europe)

Warner Bros. Records (USA)

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

Rock , progressive rock

Title (number)

8th

running time

38:57

occupation

production

Manfred Mann and Earth Band

Studio (s)

The Workhouse, London

chronology
The Good Earth (1974) Nightingales & Bombers The Roaring Silence (1976)
Single release
July 25, 1975 Spirits in the Night

Nightingales & Bombers is the sixth album by the British rock band Manfred Mann's Earth Band . It was released in 1975 and is the last album in the original line-up of the Earth Band.

The album

The title of the album comes from the recording of an ornithologist who wanted to record the voices of nightingales in Surrey during the Second World War and recorded the engine noise of a bomber squadron that happened to be flying overhead. This recording was used in the last track of the album As Above, So Below .

On the album, four songs alternate with four instrumental pieces, whereby the instrumental pieces in particular are dominated by Manfred Mann's synthesizer playing. The first song on the album Spirits in the Night is a cover version of the Bruce Springsteen album Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ. Mann used this album twice later; Blinded by the Light on the album The Roaring Silence a year later and For You on Chance from 1980. Another cover version is the rather calm Joan Armatrading song Visionary Mountains .

reception

Richard Foss writes on allmusic that turning to shorter tracks than on previous albums and using the Springsteen covers was an important step in the band's career. With the title track Nightingales and Bombers , Manfred Mann seems to be trying to get the crown of progressive rock . He gave the album four stars out of five.

Track list

page 1

  1. "Spirits in the Night" ( Bruce Springsteen ) - 6:29
  2. "Countdown" (man) - 3:05
  3. "Time Is Right" (Man, Slade, Rogers) - 6:32
  4. "Crossfade" (Mann, Slade, Rogers, Pattenden) - 3:38

Page 2

  2. "Visionary Mountains" (Pam Nestor, Joan Armatrading ) - 5:42
  3. "Nightingales and Bombers" (Rogers) - 4:53
  4. "Fat Nelly" (Man, Peter Thomas) - 3:20
  5. "As Above, So Below" (Mann, Slade, Rogers, Pattenden) - 4:18
Remarks
  • The US edition of the album contains the cover version of the Bob Dylan song Quit Your Low Down Ways (3:17) as an additional second title on the B-side.
  • This song was included on the 1999 CD release along with the shorter single version of Spirits in the Night .

More musicians

  • Singing: Ruby James, Doreen Chanter, Marta Smith
  • Viola: David Millman
  • Violin: Chris Warren-Green
  • Violoncello: Nigel Warren-Green, Graham Elliott, David Boswell-Brown

proof

  1. ↑ a b c d Greg Russo: Mannerisms - The five phases of Manfred Mann . 2nd Edition. Crossfire Publications, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-9791845-2-9 , pp. 201 .
  2. ↑ a b Greg Russo: Mannerisms - The five phases of Manfred Mann . 2nd Edition. Crossfire Publications, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-9791845-2-9 , pp. 196 .
  3. ↑ The album at Manfred Mann's Earth Band ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.manfredmann.co.uk
  4. ↑ Richard Foss album review at Allmusic (English)
  5. ↑ Track list of the US album
  6. ↑ Title list on the CD

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