Singer: Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Title: Nightingales & Bombers
Label: Air Mail Archive ‎– AIRAC-1110
Series: Manfred Mann's Earth Band Paper Sleeve Collection – Vol.1
Type: CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Papersleeve
Country: Japan
Date of released: 25 May 2005
Category: Rock
Style: Prog Rock
Size MP3 zip: 1269 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1524 mb
Rating: 4.0✭
Format: MP3 DXD XM MP3 MPC AAC AU DTS FLAC

Tracklist Hide Credits

1	Spirits In The Night Written-By – Bruce Springsteen	6:25
2	Countdown Written-By – Manfred Mann	3:06
3	Time Is Right Written-By – Slade*, Mann*, Rogers*	6:32
4	Crossfade Written-By – Slade*, Pattenden*, Mann*, Rogers*	3:38
5	Visionary Mountains Written-By – Joan Armatrading, Pam Nestor	5:42
6	Nightingales And Bombers Written-By – Mick Rogers	4:54
7	Fat Nelly Written-By – Mann*, Thomas*	3:20
8	As Above So Below (Recorded Live) Written-By – Slade*, Pattenden*, Mann*, Rogers*	4:21
9	Quit Your Low Down Ways Written-By – Bob Dylan	3:25
10	Spirits In The Night (Single Version) Written-By – Bruce Springsteen	3:21

Companies, etc.

• Distributed By – Air Mail Recordings
• Manufactured By – Air Mail Recordings
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Petbrook Ltd.
• Copyright (c) – Petbrook Ltd.
• Pressed By – Victor Entertainment, Inc.
• Printed By – Ichikudo Printing Co., Ltd.
• Recorded At – The Workhouse Studios
• Mastered At – I.B.C. Studios

Credits

• Backing Vocals – Doreen Chanter, Martha Smith, Ruby James
• Bass – Colin Pattenden
• Cello – David Boswell-Brown, Graham Elliott, Nigel Warren-Green
• Coordinator [Cd Artwork Coordinator] – Masashi Yamashita
• Cover [Cover Printing] – Ichikudo Printing Co., Ltd.
• Design [Sleeve Design] – Logo
• Drums, Other [Concussion] – Chris Slade
• Engineer – Laurence Latham*
• Guitar, Vocals – Mick Rogers
• Liner Notes [Japanese Liner Notes] – Masato Wakatsuki
• Mastered By – Melvyn Abrahams
• Organ, Synthesizer – Manfred Mann
• Photography By – Lillian Bron*
• Producer – Manfred Mann And Earth Band*
• Remastered By – Yoshiro Kuzumaki
• Tape Op [Tape Operator] – Alastair Crewe
• Viola – David Millman
• Violin – Chris Warren-Green*

Notes

Originally released in 1975 as Bronze ILPS 9337.
24-bit Remaster 2005.
Recorded at The Workhouse, Old Kent Road, 1975.
Mastering: IBC Studios, London.
Thanks to Mick Whelan, Alan White, Chris Cockeran.

9 & 10 are bonus tracks.

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'.

℗ & © 1975 Petbrook Ltd.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode (On OBI): 4 571136 371006
• Barcode (String): 4571136371006
• Mastering SID Code: IFPI L235
• Mould SID Code (Opposite): IFPI 4011
• Matrix / Runout: AIRAC-1110 1R V
• Rights Society: JASRAC
• Other (JASRAC#.): R-0540388

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
ILPS 9337	Manfred Mann's Earth Band	Nightingales & Bombers ‎(LP, Album)	Bronze	ILPS 9337	UK	1975
CECC-00122	Manfred Mann's Earth Band	Nightingales & Bombers ‎(CD, Album)	Century Records	CECC-00122	Japan	1990
COMMECD8	Manfred Mann's Earth Band	Nightingales & Bombers ‎(CD, Album, RE, Unofficial)	Cohesion	COMMECD8	Russia	Unknown
M5 2877	Manfred Mann's Earth Band	Nightingales & Bombers ‎(Cass, Album)	Warner Bros. Records	M5 2877	US	1975
DELUXE 30952, ILPS 9337	Manfred Mann's Earth Band	Nightingales & Bombers ‎(LP, Album)	Bronze, Bronze	DELUXE 30952, ILPS 9337	Israel	1976

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