PHILIP COHEN COLLECTION: ALL MANN
Here was a band struggling to break out of its pop image to find success on its artistic merit.
MANFRED MANN
The Fontana Tapes [no label, 4 CDs]
All material on Manfred Mann - The Fontana Tapes are unreleased mixes or songs, because even for the hits and album tracks in that collection you are hearing different mixes that show the various overdubbing stages and have the raw, unfaded endings. Excellent stereo soundboard recordings.
At an early stage of tape research towards what later became the two-CD set “The Ascent of Mann”, an American compiler who worked for both Universal Music & EMI (who prefers that his name not be mentioned publicly) took a large batch of Manfred Mann three-track and four-track tapes to Abbey Road Studios, to listen to the tapes and make rough stereo mixes. In the end, the compiling job went to another compiler, and so none of these mixes were ever released.
Super big thanks to Phil Cohen for letting them free.
CD1
1. Just Like A Woman (stage 1)
2. Just Like A Woman (stage 2)
3. I Wanna Be Rich (stage 1)
4. I Wanna Be Rich (stage 2)
5. Trouble And Tea
6. A Now And Then Thing
7. Each Other’s Company
8. Box Office Draw (stage 1)
9. Box Office Draw (stage 2)
10. Dealer Dealer
11. Morning After The Party
12. Another Kind Of Music
13. Acoustic Guitar Instrumental
14. As Long As I Have Lovin’
15. Autumn Leaves
16. Superstitious Guy
17. You’re My Girl (stage 1)
18. You’re My Girl (stage 2)
19. Let It Be Me
20. Semi-Detached Surburban Mr James (stage 1)
21. Semi-Detached Surburban Mr James (stage 2)
22. Each & Every Day
23. The Vicar’s Daughter
24. All I Want To Do (stage 1)
25. All I Want To Do (stage 2)
26. Ha Ha Said The Clown (stage 1)
CD2
1. Ha Ha Said The Clown (stage 2)
2. Feeling So Good (stage 1)
3. Feeling So Good (stage 2)
4. Sweet Pea (stage 1)
5. One Way
6. So Long Dad (stage 1)
7. So Long Dad (stage 2)
8. So Long Dad (stage 3)
9. Funniest Gig
10. The Mighty Quinn (stage 1)
11. The Mighty Quinn (excerpt of stage 2)
12. By Request - Edwin Garvey
13. Session talk
14. Happy Families
15. Everyday Another Hair Turns Grey (stage 1)
16. Everyday Another Hair Turns Grey (stage 2)
17. Everyday Another Hair Turns Grey (stage 3)
18. Country Dancing (stage 1)
19. Country Dancing (stage 2)
20. Big Betty (stage 1)
21. Big Betty (stage 2)
22. Cubist Town (stage 2)
23. Harry The One-Man Band
CD3
1. Happy Families
2. Morning After The Party (alt take)
3. Eastern Street
4. Mohair Sam
5. Loverbird
6. Miss J.D.
7. Each And Every Day (alt take)
8. Brown And Porters (alt backing track)
9. Harry The One-Man Band (remake)
10. Seasons In The Sun (stage 1)
11. Seasons In The Sun (stage 2)
12. Brown And Porters
13. I Love You (stage 1)
14. I Love You (stage 2)
15. I Want To Be Wanted
16. Last Train To Clarksville
17. Sunshine Superman
18. Keep On Running
19. El Footle
20. Sweet Pea (stage 2)
21. Hanky Panky
CD4
1. Mellow Yellow
2. Golden Flower
3. Rainbow Eyes (stage 1)
4. Rainbow Eyes (stage 2)
5. Budgie (stage 1)
6. Budgie (stage 2)
7. Budgie (stage 3)
8. Budgie (stage 4)
9. She Once Was My Love
10. I Think It’s Gonna Rain Today (stage 1)
11. I Think It’s Gonna Rain Today (stage 2)
12. Sleepy Hollow (demo)
13. Up The Junction (version 5)
14. Sleepy Hollow (alt take)
15. Sitting Alone In The Sunshine (stage 1)
16. Sitting Alone In The Sunshine (stage 2)
Plus
17. Jimmy Page - She Just Satisfies (instrumental stereo)
18. Jimmy Page - Keep Moving (stereo)
* The descriptions “Stage 1″, “Stage 2″, etc. refer to four-track to four-track or three-track to three-track reductions that were necessary to accommodate all of the overdubs.
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