''Manorisms'' is a 1977 album by

Wet Willie Wet Willie is an American 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 singles charts in the ...

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 at the village of Shipton-on-Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England, north of the city of Oxford. Overview The Manor and its outbuildings are Listed building#England and ...

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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, 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 American 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 notoriety in 1970 as the lead vocal ...

– 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 t ...

– orchestration on "Don't Turn Me Away" and "Let It Shine" *

Mick Glossop Mick Glossop is an English record producer and recording engineer. In 2009, he was awarded a Visiting Professorship at Leeds College of Music. Glossop was initially known for recording and producing for New wave music, new wave and Punk rock, pu ...

– engineer

Charts

References

{{Authority control 1977 albums Epic Records albums