Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann’s Earth Band (1976) Album Version
Blinded By The Light was released on the seventh studio album by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, The Roaring Silence, on 27 August 1976. I’ve had this video sitting around for awhile and hadn’t uploaded it yet because I was contemplating a re-do with a better source video and to refine some of the effects I was playing around with, but I don’t think the motivation is there for another go at it though, so here is what I had. The audio is the best version you’ll hear on Youtube, taken from a 192KHz/24 bit FLAC vinyl rip. I have numerous versions of this song, remasters, I gave them all a listen to version is the very best. This video features the album version which contains the full lyrics.
The Midnight Special performance is a very different version, and though it has nearly the exact running time as the studio version, there is a whole verse that’s missing (beginning with “Some brimstone baritone“ through “Reminding him of romance“) which is replaced by a full minute of extended intro. It’s a great version in its own right, but i prefer the studio album version and the missing verse:
Like other Earth Band albums, this includes material by other composers. “Blinded by the Light“, which reached number one the Billboard Hot 100 is a cover version of a song by Bruce Springsteen; “Questions“ is based on the main theme of Franz Schubert’s Impromptu in G flat Major (1827); “Starbird“ takes its theme from Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird (1910); and “The Road to Babylon“ is based on the canon “By the Waters of Babylon“ by Philip Hayes. This album marked the arrival of vocalist/guitarist Chris Hamlet Thompson, and Dave Flett who replaced longtime guitarist/vocalist/composer Mick Rogers. It is also the last album recorded with founding member Colin Pattenden.
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Madman drummer bummers
Indians in the summer
With a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps
As the adolescent pumps
His way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder
Feeling kinda older
I tripped a merry-go-round
With this very unpleasing
Sneezing and wheezing
The calliope crashed to the ground
The calliope crashed to the ground
But she was blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
Some silicone sister
With her manager mister
Told me I got what it takes
She said, I’ll turn you on sonny to something strong
Play the song with the funky break
And go-kart Mozart
Was checking out the weather chart
To see if it was safe outside
And little Early Pearly
Came by in his curly-wurly
And asked me if I needed a ride
Asked me if I needed a ride
’Cause she was blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
She got down but she never got tight
She’s gonna make it to the night
She’s gonna make it through the night
But mama, that’s where the fun is
But mama, that’s where the fun is
[Solo]
Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun
But mama, that’s where the fun is
Some brimstone baritone
Anticyclone rolling stone
Preacher from the east
Says, “Dethrone the Dictaphone
Hit it in its funny bone
That’s where they expect it least.“
And some new mown chaperone
Was standing in the corner
Watching the young girls dance
And some fresh-sown moonstone
Was messing with his frozen zone
Reminding him of romance
The calliope crashed to the ground
But she was blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
(Madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat)
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
(With a boulder on my shoulder feelin’ kinda older I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing the calliope crashed to the ground)
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
(And now Scott with a slingshot finally found a tender spot and throws his lover in the sand
And some bloodshot forget-me-not whispers daddy’s within earshot save the buckshot turn up the band.)
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night
(Some silicone sister with her manager mister told me I got what it takes
She said I’ll turn you on sonny to something strong)
She got down but she never got tired
She’s gonna make it through the night
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