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Album:
The song is on I Wish There Was a Way which entered the Australian albums chart* on 16 December 1974 and peaked at #93.
Songwriter:
Phil Manning
Producers:
John French, Phil Manning
Record label of Australian release:
Mushroom
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
BONUS VIDEOS BELOW – Phil Manning’s 1977 cover of When a Man Loves a Woman, and an interview on Nightmoves with Lee Simon
Wikipedia:
Australian blues singer-songwriter and guitarist Phil Manning has been a member of various groups including Chain and has had a solo career.
As a member of Chain, Manning co-wrote their 1971 single Black and Blue which became number one on the Melbourne charts and also Judgement, which reached number two in Sydney. The related album, Toward the Blues followed in September and peaked in the top 10 albums chart.
In December 1974, Manning released his debut solo album, I Wish There Was a Way, on Mushroom Records and Festival Records. Australian music historian, Ian McFarlane, described the album as in a “mellow, reflective singer/songwriter mode”. The album spawned two singles, Love Is the Mender in December and I Wish There Was a Way in March 1975.
I Wish There Was a Way featured Stephen Cooney on mandolin.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Manning_(musician)
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BONUS:
After Jim Keays left the Manning Keays Band, the band continued as Manning, then the Phil Manning Band. At the end of 1977, Manning recorded the 1966 Percy Sledge hit song When a Man Loves a Woman:
Phil Manning interviewed by Lee Simon on Nightmoves:
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