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''Manorisms'' is a 1977 album by
Wet Willie Wet Willie is an American southern rock band from Mobile, Alabama. Their best-known song, " Keep On Smilin'", reached No. 10 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in August 1974. Several other of the group's songs also appeared on the single ...
and was released on the Epic Records label. The building on the cover is
The Manor Studio The Manor Studio (a.k.a. the Manor) was a recording studio in the manor house in the village of Shipton-on-Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England, north of the city of Oxford. Overview The Manor Studio was housed in a manor house which had been est ...
in
Shipton-on-Cherwell Shipton-on-Cherwell is a village in the civil parish of Shipton-on-Cherwell and Thrupp, in the Cherwell district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. It is on the River Cherwell about north of Kidlington in Oxfordshire, England. Manor ...
where much of the album was recorded. It contains the hit single, "Street Corner Serenade" (US ''Billboard'' #30).


Track listing

# "Rainman" (Mike Duke) # "Make You Feel Love Again" ( George Jackson, Thomas Jones) # "So Blue" (Duke) # "We Got Lovin'" (Duke,
Jimmy Hall Jimmy Hall (born April 26, 1949) is the lead singer and harmonica player for the Southern rock group, Wet Willie. Hall was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and reared in Mobile, Alabama. He first gained recognition in 1970 as the lead vocalist, sa ...
, Jack Hall) # "Don't Turn Me Away" (Duke) # "Street Corner Serenade" (Duke, Jimmy Hall, Marshall Smith) # "One Track Mind" (Duke, Jimmy Hall) # "How 'Bout You?" (Duke) # "Doin' All the Right Things (The Wrong Way)" (Duke) # "Let It Shine" (Duke, Hall, Hall, Smith)


Personnel

*
Jimmy Hall Jimmy Hall (born April 26, 1949) is the lead singer and harmonica player for the Southern rock group, Wet Willie. Hall was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and reared in Mobile, Alabama. He first gained recognition in 1970 as the lead vocalist, sa ...
– saxophone, lead vocals, harmonica *Marshall Smith – guitar, backing vocals *Larry Berwald – guitar *Mike Duke – keyboards, lead vocals *Jack Hall – bass, backing vocals *Theophilus Lively – drums, backing vocals, percussion *
Fiachra Trench Fiachra Terence Wilbrah Trench (born 7 September 1941, in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish musician and composer from Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland. Trench first studied Chemistry at Trinity College, Dublin, before moving on to the ...
– orchestration on "Don't Turn Me Away" and "Let It Shine" * Mick Glossop – engineer


Charts


References

{{Authority control 1977 albums Epic Records albums Wet Willie albums