Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Nightingales And Bombers [1975][2012][320 KBPS][RMSTD][LE]

Track Listings:



01. Spirits In The Night

02. Countdown

03. Time Is Right

04. Crossfade

05. Visionary Mountains

06. Nightingales And Bombers

07. Fat Nelly

08. As Above So Below (Recorded Live)

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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 "Blinded By The Light" and "Spirit In The Night". After forming in 1971 and despite a short hiatus in the late 80s/early 90s, the Earth Band has continued to perform and tour through the present.

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



"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 BBC 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.

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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