Machines

About Machines

Machines is an EP by Manfred Mann, released in 1966. The EP is a 7-inch vinyl record and released in mono with the catalogue number His Master's Voice 7EG 8942. The record was the number 1 EP in the UK number-one EP for 1 week, starting 28 May 1966.

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Contents

Track listing

Side 1

"Machines" (Mort Shuman)

"She Needs Company" (Paul Jones)

Side 2

"Tennessee Waltz" (Redd Stewart)

"When Will I Be Loved" (Phil Everly)

Background

For this EP, Manfred Mann's third and last number 1 EP, they chose several non R & B songs to cover including Tennessee Waltz, the best-known version being by Patti Page and The Everly Brothers When Will I be Loved. Jack Bruce is the bassist on these tracks.

Chart performance

The record reached the Number 1 spot on the UK's EP charts on May 28, 1966.

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Notable quotes

“If you believe that you are not a machine, but that I am (then) I do not know why you are reading this book".”
— Lewis White Beck, The Actor and the Spectator - book reviewed by Mary Midgley in The Philosophical Quarterly", Vol. 27, Issue 107, April 1977 p. 185-186 (1975), p. 29
“It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.”
— T.S. Eliot, about radio; Cited in: Robert Andrews (1987) The Routledge dictionary of quotations. p. 262.
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
— Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923.
“It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.”
— John Stuart Mill (1848); As cited in: Colin Renfrew (1972) The Emergence of Civilisation. p. 499.
“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”
— B.F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement, 1969.
“... the construction of machines, the functioning of which he can foresee, constitutes the most spectacular accomplishment of the physicist. In these machines, the physicist creates a situation in which all the relevant coordinates are known so that the behavior of the machine can be predicted. Radars and nuclear reactors are examples of such machines.”
— Eugene Wigner:

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