The Very Best Of The Fontana Years: Manfred Mann
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Artist: Manfred Mann
Label: Umvd Import
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 731455237528
EAN: 0731455237528
ASIN: B0000071VT
Release Date: 2000-06-06 |
The Very Best Of The Fontana Years: Manfred Mann
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Tracks:
- The Mighty Quinn
- Ha! Ha! Said The Clown
- The Vicar's Daughter
- Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James
- I Wanna Be Rich
- My Name Is Jack
- A 'B' Side
- Fox On The Run
- It's So Easy Falling
- Ragamuffin Man
- Trouble And Tea
- Box Office Draw
- Sweet Pea
- Up The Junction
- Feeling So Good
- So Long Dad
- Each Other's Company
- Just Like A Woman
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Album Description
18 track collection featuring their hit covers of Dylan's 'Just Like A Woman' & 'Mighty Quinn', plus 'Ha! Ha! Said TheClown', 'Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James' & more. 1997 release on Spectrum.
Customer Reviews:
The Evolution Of Mann.......2006-10-21
Someone compared this album to The Zombies "Odessy And Oracle". Hardly, first, it is a collection, besides that, "Odessey" may be one of the greatest works of that era. A better comparison would be to the Hollies "Evolution". Although I prefer The Manfreds featuring Paul Jones, Mike D'Abo helped them turn the corner from a blues band to a pop act. His best work still is the loan album with Mike Smith of The Dave Clark Five. Also, he penned a great tune for Rod Stewart "Handbags And Gladrags". All in all, this is pretty good stuff if you like the British Invasion.
You ain't seen nothing like the mighty Quinn.......2005-03-01
So sang Mike D'Abo as Manfred Mann rose to the top of the UK charts in 1968 for the third and last time. This compilation is book-ended by two Bob Dylan songs (Mighty Quinn, Just like a woman), both of which were among the seven top ten UK hits that Manfred Mann clocked up with Mike D'Abo as lead singer between 1966 and 1969 following the departure of the original lead singer, Paul Jones.
Another of their big hits, Fox on the run, has since become popular in bluegrass music circles. On reflection, it's easy to understand why - its simple, driving rhythm and the rural references in the lyrics makes it ideally suited for adaptation to that style of music. You may not be able to find many pop and rock covers of Fox on the run, but you'll find plenty of bluegrass covers if you look for them.
The other big UK hits during this period were Semi-detached suburban Mr James, Ha ha said the clown, My name is Jack and Ragamuffin man. Two other singles failed - Sweet pea (an instrumental cover of a Tommy Roe song) was only a minor hit while So long Dad (a Randy Newman song) missed the charts completely.
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