{"id":985,"date":"2007-11-12T12:36:05","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T17:36:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-11-12T12:40:59","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T12:40:59","slug":"two-hits-two-eras-essentially-one-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/two-hits-two-eras-essentially-one-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Hits&#8230;Two Eras&#8230;Essentially One Artist&#8230;Almost Nothing in Common!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Manfred Mann<\/strong> led bands in two eras and experienced the thrill of a big hit song in each era. His early big hit was this one.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1fh7B5zWHzw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I hear you rustling through your dog-eared copies of the <em>Billboard Top 40<\/em> book, nerdboys: a few smaller &#8217;60s hits, including his cover of Bob Dylan&#8217;s <strong>&#8220;The Mighty Quinn&#8221;<\/strong>, should also be considered from this era. I&#8217;m not calling the guy a 1-hit wonder through the &#8217;60s.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aPcfQfG5uMM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Then the &#8217;60s ended, and Manfred Mann fell out of most rock music circles until he came back with his <strong>Earth Band<\/strong> and this cover of an album cut by a &#8220;new Dylan&#8221;:<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C6AFCJ1dLdg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Has any other artist had two hits from two different eras that had so little in common?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manfred Mann led bands in two eras and experienced the thrill of a big hit song in each era. His early big hit was this one. I hear you rustling through your dog-eared copies of the Billboard Top 40 book, nerdboys: a few smaller &#8217;60s hits, including his cover of Bob Dylan&#8217;s &#8220;The Mighty Quinn&#8221;, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/two-hits-two-eras-essentially-one-artist\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}