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Released
  
22 August 1975

Artist
  
Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Producer
  
Manfred Mann

Length
  
37:57

Release date
  
22 August 1975

Label
  
Bronze Records

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Recorded
  
1975 at The Workhouse, London

Nightingales & Bombers(1975)
  
The Roaring Silence(1976)

Genres
  
Rock music, Progressive rock, Hard rock, Progressive metal

Similar
  
Manfred Mann albums, Progressive rock albums

Nightingales & Bombers is an album released in 1975 by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

Contents

"The title of this album was inspired by a recording made in Surrey, England during the Second World War, by an ornithologist intending to record nightingales. The bombers flew over at the same time and were recorded by accident. The recording has been incorporated in 'As Above, So Below'". - Manfred Mann 1975

The recording was made on 19 May 1942 by a sound engineer for the BBC. Intending to capture the nightingale's song he also, by accident, recorded the sound of RAF bombers on their way to attack Mannheim, Germany. In that raid 197 planes were dispatched and 12 were lost.

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Spirits in the Night" (Bruce Springsteen) – 6:29
  2. "Countdown" (Mann) – 3:05
  3. "Time Is Right" (Mann, Slade, Rogers) – 6:32
  4. "Crossfade" (Mann, Slade, Rogers, Pattenden) – 3:38
Side two
  1. "Visionary Mountains" (Pam Nestor, Joan Armatrading) – 5:42
  2. "Nightingales and Bombers" (Rogers) – 4:53
  3. "Fat Nelly" (Mann, Thomas) – 3:20
  4. "As Above So Below (Recorded Live)" (Mann, Slade, Rogers, Pattenden) – 4:18
Bonus tracks on 1999 re-issue
  1. "Quit Your Low Down Ways" (from US Release) (Bob Dylan) – 3:25
  2. "Spirit in the Night" (single version) (Springsteen) – 3:17

Personnel

  • Manfred Mann – organ, synthesisers
  • Mick Rogers – guitars, vocals
  • Chris Slade – drums, percussion
  • Colin Pattenden – bass

    • with

  • Ruby James – backing vocals
  • Doreen Chanter – backing vocals
  • Martha Smith – backing vocals
  • David Millman – viola
  • Chris Warren-Green – violin
  • Nigel Warren-Green – cello
  • Graham Elliott – cello
  • David Boswell-Brown – cello

    • Sleeve - Dave Field

    Songs

    1Spirit in the Night6:27
    2Countdown3:06
    3Time Is Right6:33

    References

    Nightingales & Bombers Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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