Yes We Have No Mañanas (So Get Your Mañanas Today)

Yes We Have No Mañanas (So Get Your Mañanas Today)
Yes We Have No Mañanas (So Get Your Mañanas Today)
Studio album by Kevin Ayers
Released	June 1976
Recorded	Spring 1976
Studio	Basing Street, London
Genre	Rock
Length	35:17
Label	Harvest (UK); ABC (US);
Producer	Muff Winwood
Kevin Ayers chronology
Singles from Yes We Have No Mañanas (So Get Your Mañanas Today)
	"Falling in Love Again"; Released: March 5, 1976 (Europe only); "Star"; Released: April 22, 1977 (UK only); "Mr. Cool"; Released: 1977 (US only);

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Village Voice	^[2]

Yes We Have No Mañanas (So Get Your Mañanas Today) is the seventh studio album by Kevin Ayers, released in June 1976. This LP marked Kevin Ayers's return to the leftfield Harvest label. Producer Muff Winwood employed a straightforward pop production that clipped some of Ayers's usual eccentricities from the tapes.

The band comprised Rob Townsend from Family on drums, Taste's Charlie McCracken on bass, B.J. Cole's steel guitar and Ollie Halsall's guitar.

Track listing

All tracks written by Kevin Ayers except where noted.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Star"	4:18
2.	"Mr. Cool"	3:00
3.	"The Owl"	3:14
4.	"Love's Gonna Turn You Round"	4:52
5.	"Falling in Love Again" (Reginald Connelly, Friedrich Hollander)	2:36

Side two
No.	Title	Length
6.	"Help Me"	2:40
7.	"Ballad of Mr Snake"	2:02
8.	"Everyone Knows The Song"	2:33
9.	"Yes I Do"	3:08
10.	"Blue"	6:26

2009 CD reissue bonus tracks
No.	Title	Recording source	Length
11.	"Mr. Cool"	John Peel Show, 13 July 1976	3:01
12.	"Love's Gonna Turn You Round"	John Peel Show, 13 July 1976	4:44
13.	"Star"	John Peel Show, 13 July 1976	4:42
14.	"Ballad of Mr. Snake"	John Peel Show, 13 July 1976	2:23
15.	"Shouting in a Bucket Blues"	BBC Paris Theatre, 30 September 1976	5:26
16.	"Star"	BBC Paris Theatre, 30 September 1976	4:40
17.	"Mr. Cool"	BBC Paris Theatre, 30 September 1976	3:44
18.	"Ballad of Mr. Snake"	BBC Paris Theatre, 30 September 1976	2:39
19.	"Blue"	BBC Paris Theatre, 30 September 1976	6:24

Personnel

Musicians

Kevin Ayers – guitar, vocals
Billy Livsey – keyboards
Charlie McCracken – bass
Ollie Halsall – lead guitar
Rob Townsend – drums, percussion
Roger Saunders – rhythm guitar

Additional musicians

B.J. Cole – steel guitar (tracks 3, 5)
Rick Wills – bass (track 6)
Zoot Money – keyboards (track 6)
Tony Newman – drums (track 6)
Andy Roberts – guitar (track 8)
Mickey Feat – bass (track 8)
Nick Rowley – keyboards (track 8)
Roger Pope – drums (track 8)
Pip Williams – arranger (track 5)
David Bedford – choral arranger (track 10)

Technical

Muff Winwood – producer
Mike Robinson – engineer
Peter Mew – mastering
Peter Shepherd – design
Peter Vernon – photography
Mark Powell – liner notes

References and Sources

NME – Album review (June 1976)
Original LP sleevenotes

^ DeGagne, Mike. Yes We Have No Mañanas at AllMusic
^ Albums of the Year 1977 (Tom Hull)

[1] DeGagne, Mike. Yes We Have No Mañanas at AllMusic

[2] Albums of the Year 1977 (Tom Hull)

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Kevin Ayers
Studio albums	Joy of a Toy (1969) Shooting at the Moon (1970) Whatevershebringswesing (1971) Bananamour (1973) The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories (1974) Sweet Deceiver (1975) (1976) Rainbow Takeaway (1978) That's What You Get Babe (1980) Diamond Jack and the Queen of Pain (1983) Deià...Vu (1984) As Close As You Think (1986) Falling Up (1988) Still Life with Guitar (1992) The Unfairground (2007)
Collaborations	June 1, 1974 (1974) Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy (1974)
Singles	"Singing a Song in the Morning" "Butterfly Dance" "Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes" "Oh! Wot a Dream" "Caribbean Moon" "Star" "Mr. Cool" "Money Money Money" "Animals" "Who's Still Crazy"
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