''Manfred Mann Chapter Three Volume Two'' is the second and final album released by Manfred Mann Chapter Three. It was released in

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. Mann's next album, and most of his future albums, would be released under the name

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Track listing

Tracks written by Mike Hugg except where noted

Side one

#"Lady Ace" – 7:58 #"I Ain't Laughing" – 2:36 #"Poor Sad Sue" – 5:54 #"Jump Before You Think" – 4:52 #"It's Good To Be Alive" (

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) – 3:31

Side two

"Happy Being Me" – 15:54 #"Virginia" (Mann) – 4:52

Bonus Tracks (1999 CD re-issue)

"I Ain't Laughing" (single mono version) – 2:32 #"Happy Being Me" (single mono version) – 4:01 #"Virginia" (alternate version) (Mann) – 3:32

Personnel

Manfred Mann Chapter Three

* Mike Hugg –

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or witho ...

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musica ...

electric piano An electric piano is a musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of a piano-style musical keyboard. Pressing keys causes mechanical hammers to strike metal strings, metal reeds or wire tines, leading to vibrations ...

, arranger *

– organ, arranger * Steve York –

electric bass The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

acoustic bass The acoustic bass guitar (sometimes shortened to acoustic bass or initialized ABG) is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to, though usually larger than a steel-string acoustic guitar. Like the traditional electric bass guitar ...

* Bernie Living – alto saxophone * Brian John Hugg –

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

(tracks 2,6),

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are u ...

* Craig Collinge –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair of matching drumsticks ...

Additional musicians

* Dave Brooks –

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

* Clive Stevens –

soprano saxophone The soprano saxophone is a higher-register variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument invented in the 1840s. The soprano is the third-smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists (from smallest to largest) of the soprillo, so ...

, tenor saxophone * Sonny Corbett –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standar ...

* David Coxhill – baritone saxophone * Andy McCulloch - drums (track 5)

Technical

* Mike Hugg –

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* Manfred Mann – producer * Dave Hadfield – producer,

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* Derek Wadsworth – brass arrangements * Mike Gibbs – brass arrangements * Keith MacMillan – design,

photography Photography is the visual art, art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It i ...

References

1970 albums Vertigo Records albums Bronze Records albums Polydor Records albums Manfred Mann Chapter Three albums {{1960s-rock-album-stub