Original Songs

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Over Manfred's whole career he has been best known for his arrangements of other artists songs, in many cases taking obscure album tracks and putting his own indelible stamp on them.  Below are links to the originals so you can hear just how much they were re-arranged.

Album: Stepping Sideways (1971)

Ned Kelly (Trevor Lucas)

Album: Stepping Sideways (1971) / Manfred Mann's Earth Band (1972)

Living Without You (Randy Newman)

Album: Stepping Sideways (1971) / Manfred Mann's Earth Band (1972)

Jump Sturdy (Dr John)

Album: Stepping Sideways (1971)

Holly Holy (Neil Diamond)

Album: Manfred Mann's Earth Band (1972)

Captain Bobby Stout (Lane Tietgen)

Album: Manfred Mann's Earth Band (1972)

Please Mrs Henry (Bob Dylan)

Album: Glorified Magnified (1972)

It's All Over Now Baby Blue (Bob Dylan)

Album: Messin' (1973)

Get Your Rocks Off (Bob Dylan)

Album: Messin' (1973)

Mardi Gras Day (Dr John)

Album: Get Your Rocks Off (US version of Messin') (1973)

Pretty Good (John Prine)

Album: Solar Fire (1973)

Father of Night, Father of Day (Bob Dylan)

Album: The Good Earth (1974)

Give Me The Good Earth (Gary Wright)

Album: The Good Earth (1974)

Launching Place (Mike Rudd)

Album: The Good Earth (1974)

I'll Be Gone (Mike Rudd)

Album: Nightingales and Bombers (1975)

Spirits In The Night (Bruce Springsteen)

Album: Nightingales and Bombers (1975)

Visionary Mountains (Joan Armatrading)

Album: The Roaring Silence (1976)

Blinded By The Light (Bruce Springsteen)

Album: The Roaring Silence (1976)

Singing The Dolphin Through (Mike Heron)

Album: Watch (1978)

California (Sue Vickers)

Album: Watch (1978)

Davy's On The Road Again (John Simon, Robbie Robertson)

Album (Watch (1978)

Martha's Madman (Lane Tietgen)

Album: Watch (1978)

Mighty Quinn (Bob Dylan)

Album: Angel Station (1979)

Don't Kill It Carol (Mike Heron)

Album: Angel Station (1979)

You Angel You (Bob Dylan)

Album: Angel Station (1979)

Hollywood Town (Harriet Schock)

Album: Angel Station (1979)

Waiting For The Rain (Billy Falcon)

Album: Chance (1980)

For You (Bruce Springsteen)

Album: Chance (1980)

Stranded (Mike Heron)

Album: Chance (1980)

Hello, I Am Your Heart (Dennis Linde)

Album: Chance (1980)

Heart On The Street (Tom Gray)

Album: Somewhere in Afrika (1982)

Eyes of Nostradamus (Al Stewart)

Album: Somewhere In Afrika (1982)

Third World Service (Anthony Moore)

Album: Somewhere In Afrika (1982)

Demolition Man (Sting)

Album: Somewhere In Afrika (1982)

Redemption Song (Bob Marley)

Album: Criminal Tango (1986)

Going Underground (Paul Weller)

Album: Criminal Tango (1986)

Who Are The Mystery Kids (Garland Jeffreys)

Album: Criminal Tango (1986)

Banquet (Joni Mitchell)

Album: Criminal Tango (1986)

Do Anything You Wanna Do (Edwin Hollis, Graham Douglas)

Album: Criminal Tango (1986)

You Got Me Right Through The Heart (Robert Byrne)

Album: Criminal Tango (1986)

Bulldog (Lennon/ McCartney)

Album: Masque (1987)

What You Give Is What You Get (Paul Weller)

Album: Masque (1987)

Telegram to Monica (Denny Newman)

Album: Masque (1987)

Billy's Bounce (Charlie Parker)

Album: Masque (1987)

We're Going Wrong (Jack Bruce)

Album: Masque (1987)

Geronimo's Cadillac (Michael Martin Murphy)

Album: Soft Vengeance (1996)

Pleasure and Pain (Holly Knight / Mike Chapman)

Album: Soft Vengeance (1996)

Play With Fire (Nanker Phelge)