Manfred Mann: 'Down the Road a Piece' - 1964

Reaganite Republican ^ | 16 January 2013 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

Down the Road a Piece is a boogie-woogie-style jam written by Don Raye. In 1940, a version was put to vinyl by the Will Bradley Trio that went on to be a Top Ten hit in the US. The song was subsequently recorded by a variety of jazz, blues, and rock artists.

British band Manfred Mann -a beat/R-n-B group- released their cover version of it in 1964, on the album 'The Five Faces of Manfred Mann', a critically-acclaimed record that has been called "one of the great blues-based British invasion albums; it's a hot, rocking record that benefits from some virtuoso playing as well".

Me? I love 'em- and this early stuff blows 'Blinded by the Light' away, imho...

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[Reaganite Republican]

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[KGeorge]

Heh. Of all people. Angel Station is one of my most favorite albums. (I like his stuff from the 60s, too)

[Berlin_Freeper]

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Angel Station ( Full Album )

[KGeorge]

Omigosh. I didn’t know the whole album was on YT. Thank you!

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Oh wow I was talking to my brother the other day about that, how they got whole albums on Youtube and even whole movies. How is that legal? I mean anyone can download that stuff and covert it to any kind of file, there’s even a website that will convert these album videos to MP3 like this one....

http://snipmp3.com/

I just find it odd that the RIAA goes after websites like Piratebay and sues the hell out of people yet here is Youtube with the same amount of music probably more even as just about every song I look up is on there. And even if a person does not intentionally download they still are because the video is stored in their temp files.

[Revolting cat!]

I’m surprised anyone remembers this version when Ian Stewart’s band recorded the definitive cover around the same time.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Will Bradley (born Wilbur Schwitchenberg) and his Trio, plus the incomparable Freddie Slack on piano;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX8TPanPKzU

[Fiji Hill]

Will Bradley (born Wilbur Schwictenberg) and his Trio, plus the incomparable Freddie Slack on piano;

"Down the Road Apiece" is a reet, voot, solid hummer--and the follow-up to Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar, from the early fall of '40.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I have the 78s. Matter of fact, I have a huge collection of piano Boogie Woogie. Ammons is my favorite player.

[Fiji Hill]

I have “Beat Me, Daddy” on a 78, but it seems they cut part of it out so it could fit on both sides of the record.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

3 versions of Ammons’ “Swanee River Boogie.” The last was the one released. The vids aren’t really him playing SWB, but you can see the joy he got from playing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcvvUWhckww

[Reaganite Republican]

Superb, FH... I also like Commander Cody’s version of ‘Beat Me Daddy’, it’s the b-side of the Hot Rod Lincoln 45

[Berlin_Freeper]

video grabber

[Berlin_Freeper]

JOHNNY RIVERS- "ROCKIN' PNEUMONIA AND THE BOOGIE WOOGIE FLU"

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

The real thing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUrASJk5WBU&feature=related

[Fiji Hill]

JOHNNY RIVERS- "ROCKIN' PNEUMONIA AND THE BOOGIE WOOGIE FLU"

Flip the disc over, and you'll get a McGovern campaign song!

Come Home, America--Johnny Rivers (1972)

[Fiji Hill]

A song obviously inspired by "Rockin' Pneumonia" as well as the Sputnik and Explorer satellites and the 1957-1958 Asian flu epidemic was Lonnie Miley's Satellite Fever and the Asiatic Flu (1958). I prefer Paul Perryman's version, but I can't find a decent recording of it on the Internet.