Manfred Mann’s Earth Band

Manfred Mann’s Earth Band  are an English rock band formed by South African musician Manfred Mann.  The band’s hits include covers of Bruce Springsteen’s “For You”, “Blinded by the Light” and “Spirit In The Night”.  After forming in 1971 and despite a short hiatus in the late 1980s/early 1990s, the Earth Band has continued to perform and tour through the present.  (More from Wikipedia)

 

Several other major artists have launched their careers with Bob Dylan songs, Olivia Newton-John (“If Not for You”), the Turtles (“It Ain’t Me Babe”), and Cher (“All I Really Want to Do”) among them.  Cher’s hit version of “All I Really Want to Do” had to compete on the charts with the Byrds’ version of the same song, “All I Really Want to Do”.  Additionally, Manfred Mann and Manfred Mann’s Earth Band have salted their albums with mostly obscure Bob Dylan songs since their third release, As Is (1966). 

(March 2015)