Manorisms

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Manorisms
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Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 14, 1977 [1]
Studio The Manor Studio & Chipping Norton Recording Studios, Oxfordshire, England
Genre Rock
Label Epic
Producer Gary Lyons
Wet Willie chronology
Greatest Hits
(1977)
Manorisms
(1977)
Which One's Willie?
(1978)

Manorisms is a 1977 album by Wet Willie and was released on the Epic Records label. The building on the cover is The Manor Studio in Shipton-on-Cherwell where much of the album was recorded. It contains the hit single, "Street Corner Serenade" (US Billboard #30).

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Rainman" (Mike Duke)
  2. "Make You Feel Love Again" (George Jackson, Thomas Jones)
  3. "So Blue" (Duke)
  4. "We Got Lovin'" (Duke, Jimmy Hall, Jack Hall)
  5. "Don't Turn Me Away" (Duke)
  6. "Street Corner Serenade" (Duke, Jimmy Hall, Marshall Smith)
  7. "One Track Mind" (Duke, Jimmy Hall)
  8. "How 'Bout You?" (Duke)
  9. "Doin' All the Right Things (The Wrong Way)" (Duke)
  10. "Let It Shine" (Duke, Hall, Hall, Smith)

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1978)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [2] 93
US Billboard 200 [3] 118

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References

  1. ("...set for release Monday".) (November 12, 1977). "Signings". Billboard . Billboard Publications, Inc. p. 49. Retrieved June 11, 2011.
  2. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 335. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  3. "Billboard 200 Chart: March 4, 1978". Billboard . Retrieved September 11, 2020.