Product Code: BRONZE 24-337
Artist: Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Origin: New Zealand
Label: Bronze (1975)
Format: LP
Availability: In Stock
Condition:
Cover: VG
Record: VG+
Genre: Pop , Rock U

Nightingales & Bombers

Very smart clean vinyl with a good cover with minor creasing

Nightingales & Bombers is an album released in 1975 by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

"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'". - Manfred Mann 1975 [3]

The recording was made on 19 May 1942 by a sound engineer for the BBC. Intending to capture the nightingale's song he also, by accident, recorded the sound of RAF bombers on their way to attack Mannheim, Germany. In that raid 197 planes were dispatched and 12 were lost. [4]