Manfred Mann - Pretty Flamingo - 45 RPM - ORIGINAL MONO MIX

[MrLowedog]

Yes, juke boxes! The silver I dropped.....Tommy James and the Shondels, the Left Bank, and Manfred Mann......wish i was young again.

[07may1946]

when this song came out i was a long distant truck driver and i would not go into a cafe if there was not a juke box there

[jugboy4159]

What kind of record player do you use?

Thanks for posting all these amazing videos!

[gtopa1]

Something about mono vinyls...good one.

[shemanic1]

aparently bass was played by jack bruce on this

[opu]

@shemanic1 Apparently Geoff Emerick was the balance engineer on this recording, his first big session? He was only 17 years old?

[spacepatrolman]

@shemanic1 jack is pictured with the group on the sheet music for this song

[zman291977]

I bet no one from my generation would know that this is actually Manfred Mann!

[rslitman]

This was the 3rd song I heard by the group, after "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" and "Sha La La". I learned a long time ago that "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" had been done by the Exciters not long before Manfred Mann did it. I found out about 5 years ago that "Sha La La" had been done by the Shirelles not long before Manfred Mann. Only recently, I learned that this was also an American original, but already I don't remember who did it earlier.

[Tuggle]

@rslitman Gene Pitney did the original version of "Pretty Flamingo".

[spacepatrolman]

@rslitman You mean thrt manfred mann didnt do this first that could be i think the writter of this song barkan is a new york writer on their pretty flamingo album was driva man a song by max roach and oscar brown

[rslitman]

@spacepatrolman I've seen the Barkan name paired in songwriting credits with other New York-based writers. I think one of them was Ellie Greenwich, who co-write "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" with her most common songwriting partner, Jeff Barry.

[spacepatrolman]

@rslitman like roy orbison said you got it

[MrGreenHornet]

I haven't heard this in a long time, thanks.