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

Yes We Have No Mañanas (So Get Your Mañanas Today)
Type:	Album
Artist:	Kevin Ayers
Cover:	YesSirWeHaveNoMananas.jpg
Released:	June 1976
Recorded:	Spring 1976
Studio:	Basing Street, London
Genre:	Rock
Length:	35:17
Label:	Harvest (UK) ABC (USA)
Producer:	Muff Winwood
Prev Title:	Sweet Deceiver
Prev Year:	1975
Next Title:	Rainbow Takeaway
Next Year:	1978

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.

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.

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