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

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' return to the leftfield Harvest label. Producer Muff Winwood employed a straightforward pop production that clipped some of Ayers' usual eccentricities from the tapes.

Yes We Have No Mañanas (So Get Your Mañanas Today)
Studio album by Kevin Ayers
Released	June 1976
Recorded	Spring 1976
Studio	Basing Street Studios, London
Genre	Rock
Length	35:17
Label	Harvest (UK) ABC (USA)
Producer	Muff Winwood
Kevin Ayers chronology
Sweet Deceiver (1975) Yes We Have No Mañanas (So Get Your Mañanas Today) (1976) Rainbow Takeaway (1978)
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]

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

Side one

1. "Star" (Kevin Ayers) – 4:18
2. "Mr Cool" (Ayers) – 3:00
3. "The Owl" (Ayers) – 3:14
4. "Love's Gonna Turn You Round" (Ayers) – 4:52
5. "Falling In Love Again" (Reginald Connelly, Friedrich Hollander) – 2:36

Side two

1. "Help Me" (Ayers) – 2:40
2. "Ballad of Mr Snake" (Ayers) – 2:02
3. "Everyone Knows The Song" (Ayers) – 2:33
4. "Yes I Do" (Ayers) – 3:08
5. "Blue" (Ayers) – 6:26

2009 CD reissue

11. "Mr. Cool" (Ayers) – 3:01

12. "Love's Gonna Turn You Round" (Ayers) – 4:44

13. "Star" (Ayers) – 4:42

14. "Ballad of Mr. Snake" (Ayers) – 2:23

• Tracks 11 to 14 are studio recordings made for the BBC's John Peel Show in Maida Vale Studios, London on 13 July 1976

15. "Shouting in a Bucket Blues" (Ayers) – 5:26

16. "Star" (Ayers) – 4:40

17. "Mr. Cool" (Ayers) – 3:44

18. "Ballad of Mr. Snake" (Ayers) – 2:39

19. "Blue" (Ayers) – 6:24

• Tracks 15 to 19 are live recordings taped at The BBC's Paris Theatre in London on 30 September 1976

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 & Sources

• NME - Album review (June 1976)
• Original LP sleevenotes

1. Allmusic review
2. Albums of the Year 1977 (Tom Hull)