Manfred Mann - If You Gotta Go, Go Now - Non-Album Tracks (1965-1966)

I've got all the Manfred Mann music for the 1960s organized and ready to go, so I can post them in relatively quick succession. Here's the next in the stray tracks series for them.

This album comes almost entirely from A-sides, B-sides, BBC performances, and EP tracks. Nothing is unreleased, so the sound quality is excellent. The songs are arranged in chronological order, at least as accurately as I could manage. But the big hit for this album was the Bob Dylan song "If You Gotta Go, Go Now," so I put that at the start, as was the usual custom in those days. (It otherwise would have gone just before "Stay Around," which was the B-side.)

For the most part, this continues the rhythm and blues approach the band was specializing in for their first few years. But one can see that they were starting to branch out with a greater variety of styles. For instance, in addition to doing the Dylan song the album is titled for, they also did the Dylan protest tune "With God on Our Side." They also show off their chops with a couple of jazzy instrumentals. And let's not forget their growing songwriting skills. A good example of that is "Tired of Trying, Bored with Lying, Scared of Dying."

The album is 40 minutes long, which is right in line with album lengths from that time period.

01 If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Manfred Mann)
02 My Little Red Book (Manfred Mann)
03 What Am I Doing Wrong (Manfred Mann)
04 Parchman Farm (Manfred Mann)
05 Stay Around (Manfred Mann)
06 The One in the Middle (Manfred Mann)
07 With God on Our Side (Manfred Mann)
08 What Am I to Do (Manfred Mann)
09 Watermelon Man (Manfred Mann)
10 It Took a Little While (Manfred Mann)
11 There's No Living without Your Loving (Manfred Mann)
12 Tired of Trying, Bored with Lying, Scared of Dying (Manfred Mann)
13 Let's Go Get Stoned (Manfred Mann)
14 Tengo Tango [Instrumental] (Manfred Mann)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15264078/ManfredM_1965-1966_IfYuGottaGoGoNw_atse.zip.html

The cover art is the cover of the "If You Gotta Go, Go Now" EP as opposed to the single cover. I though it looked better. I removed the names of the three other songs on the EP. That's why there's a blank green box towards the center.