Blinded by the Light
I absolutely agree with you that Manfred Mann's version is far better than Bruce's. Bruce just does not do anything for that song. But as far as Springsteen songs that Manfred Mann recorded, "Sprits in the Night" is my favorite"
SPIRITS IN THE NIGHTSpringsteen-Intersong Music Ltd.
Crazy Janey and her mission man
Were back in the alley trading hands
Along came Wild Billy with his friend Gee Man
All duded up for Saturday night
Billy slammed on his coaster brakes, said
Anybody wanna go to Greasy Lake
It's a mile down on the dark side of Route 88
I got a bottle of rosé let's try it
We'll pick up Hazy Davey and Killer Joe and
I'll take you all out to where the gypsy angels go
They're built like light and they dance like
Spirits in the night, all night
Oh you don't know what they can do to you
Spirits in the night, all night
In the night, all night
Stand right up and let them shoot through you
Wild Billy was a crazy cat
And he shook some dust out of his coon skin cap
He said try some of this it'll show you where you're at
Or at least it'll help you to feel it
By the time we made it up to Greasy Lake
My head was out the window
Janey's fingers were in the cake
I think I really dug her, I was too loose to fake
I said I'm hurt she said Honey let's heal it
And we danced all night to a soul fairy band
And she kissed me just right
Like only a lonely angel can
She felt so nice, just as soft as a
Spirit in the night, all night
Janey don't know what she do to you
Spirits in the night, all night
In the night, all night
Stand right up and let her shoot through me
Spirits in the night, in the night
Spirits in the night, all night
Spirits in the night, in the night
Spirits in the night, all night
How the night was bright and the stars threw light
On Billy and Davey dancing in the Moonlight
Down near the water in a stoned mud fight
Killer Joe passed out on the lawn
Hazy Davey got really hurt
He ran into the lake in just his socks and a shirt
Me and Crazy Davey making love in the dirt
Singing our birthday songs
Janey said it was time to go, so we closed our eyes
And said goodbye to gypsy angel row
Felt so right together we moved like
Spirits in the night, all night
Oh you don't know what they can do to you
Spirits in the night, all night
All night, all night
Stand right up and let them shoot through you
Spirits in the night, all night
Oh you don't know what they can do to you
Spirits in the night, all night
Spirits in the night
Spirits in the night
What song was it on the Manfred Mann album that used the Nightingales and Bombers, tack in the song?? or was it just on the Album separately?? I know that was the title of the ablum. I thought that track was on there in the back round of a song.....but not sure.....<my memories from back then are a bit smokey!!!> Anyway I think that track is awesome.
I found my own answer.....
Includes a famous recording from World War 2 of nightingales singing as bombers pass overhead.
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'.
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