All Day And All Of The Night was released 1980
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| Catalogue |
| Type |
Cat No. |
Label |
Country |
| 7″ |
ARIST397 |
Arista |
UK |
| On Time Tells No Lies CD |
HV-1001 |
High Vaultage Records |
Germany |
| On Time Tells No Lies CD |
PCCY-01289 |
Pony Canyon |
Japan |
| Track List |
| Title |
Writers |
Length
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| 01. All Day and all of the night |
Ray Davies |
2′ 56″ |
| 02. Beads of Ebony |
T.Troy |
5′ 20″ |
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| What |
Source |
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| Additional Information |
| Studios |
Engineering |
| •Battery Studios, London |
•Mike Shipley |
| Mixer/Producer |
Artwork |
| •Tim Friese-Green |
•Simon Fowler |
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This was the first Mantis I heard, aged 13, and bought for 30p after finding it in a Bristol record shop bargain bin in October 1981.
Ray Davies wrote a great song, Praying Mantis made it sound like an anthem. It scorches from start to finish. If Mantis had made it big, imagine what this would have sounded like in Madison Square Gardens. Beads of Ebony showed a softer side – I never knew it was about
a seal, thinking instead it was about a discarded lover (that’s living in sheep country for you!). I wrote for the fan club letter the next day, but it never arrived… Yet 22 years later, I can’t get rid of the record.