Kevin Ayers – Yes We Have No Mananas, So Get Your Mananas Today
(Harvest Records 1976 SHSP4057)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing
G&L Textured Sleeve in Nr MINT- condition
– a little light discolouration here & there
Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)
Kevin Ayers (16 August 1944 – 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter and a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement. Ayers was a founding member of the pioneering psychedelic band Soft Machine in the mid-1960s, and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene. He recorded a series of albums as a solo artist and over the years worked with Brian Eno, Syd Barrett, Bridget St John, John Cale, Elton John, Robert Wyatt, Andy Summers, Mike Oldfield, Nico and Ollie Halsall, among others. After living for many years in Deià, Majorca, he returned to the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s before moving to the south of France. His last album was The Unfairground, recorded in New York City, Tucson, and London in 2006. The British rock journalist Nick Kent wrote: “Kevin Ayers and Syd Barrett were the two most important people in British pop music. Everything that came after came from them.”
Yes We Have No Mañanas (So Get Your Mañanas Today) is the seventh studio album by Kevin Ayers, released in June 1976. This LP marked Kevin Ayers’s return to the leftfield Harvest label. Producer Muff Winwood employed a straightforward pop production that clipped some of Ayers’s usual eccentricities from the tapes.
The band comprised Rob Townsend from Family on drums, Taste’s Charlie McCrackenon bass, B.J. Cole’s steel guitar and Ollie Halsall’s guitar.
Track listing
All tracks written by Kevin Ayers except where noted.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Star” | 4:18 |
| 2. | “Mr. Cool” | 3:00 |
| 3. | “The Owl” | 3:14 |
| 4. | “Love’s Gonna Turn You Round” | 4:52 |
| 5. | “Falling in Love Again” (Reginald Connelly, Friedrich Hollander) | 2:36 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 6. | “Help Me” | 2:40 |
| 7. | “Ballad of Mr Snake” | 2:02 |
| 8. | “Everyone Knows The Song” | 2:33 |
| 9. | “Yes I Do” | 3:08 |
| 10. | “Blue” | 6:26 |
Personnel
Musicians
- Kevin Ayers – guitar, vocals
- Billy Livsey – keyboards
- Charlie McCracken – bass
- Ollie Halsall – lead guitar
- Rob Townsend – drums, percussion
- Roger Saunders – rhythm guitar
Additional musicians
- B.J. Cole – steel guitar (tracks 3, 5)
- Rick Wills – bass (track 6)
- Zoot Money – keyboards (track 6)
- Tony Newman – drums (track 6)
- Andy Roberts – guitar (track 8)
- Mickey Feat – bass (track 8)
- Nick Rowley – keyboards (track 8)
- Roger Pope – drums (track 8)
- Pip Williams – arranger (track 5)
- David Bedford – choral arranger (track 10)
Technical
- Muff Winwood – producer
- Mike Robinson – engineer
- Peter Mew – mastering
- Peter Shepherd – design
- Peter Vernon – photography
- Mark Powell – liner notes
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