Ladies and gentlemen, i'd like to present to you- My new favorite song.
Manfred Mann - What You Gonna Do?
The B-side of the mega hit 'Do Wah Diddy', which i probably would have passed on if 45s didn't have two songs. Luckily for me they do, so i took a chance and spent the 40 cents. Glad i did too, because this tune is a killer.
When i saw the title, "What you gonna do?", i thought it might be a version or variation on The Small Faces "What you gonna do about it?", because of the way that British Invasion R&B groups of that era loved to cover each others songs, but this ones an original and one of the most punk rock songs i've heard in a good long while. This thing is full of attitude. Just dig the little laugh at about 1:40. You gotta be kidding me..!
The perfect two and a half minutes of sound. My new favorite song -for now.
From July 1964
What You Gonna Do?
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4 shout outs:
Nice find. I never heard it before.
Ya know, I just listened to a bunch of early Manfred Mann cause you got me started....and it's much better than I remembered.
Thanks for that too.
Yeah, after hearing this one i'm hell-bent on finding a classic M.M. LP. As of right now, this is all i got!
I actually recorded this off the 45 onto a little reel-to-reel tape recorder in 1964 and sent it to a friend in El Centro, CA telling him this was my band and that was me singing.
I don't understand why he didn't believe me, however.
This is also on their first LP, "Manfred Mann," probably one of the greatest releases of the era.
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