Stranded in Iowa Manfred Mann's Earth Band from the album "Chance" Trevor Rabin, later of Yes fame, was a guest guitarist on the album.
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@millerforest10 жыл бұрын
The band did a show in Davenport, Iowa when a blizzard hit and they were literally "Stranded In Iowa" when they came up with this song.
@floydflys72f14 жыл бұрын
KGGO rocked in the 70's and 80's Love this song and yes I m still Stranded In Iowa
@davishenry53049 жыл бұрын
37 years ago today this happened and the song was written in the Cedar Rapids airport!
@sonofabanker9 жыл бұрын
I was stranded in Iowa City when this was made.
@eric525646 жыл бұрын
Was stranded in Des Moines for about 24 years. Lived to tell.
@CortoArmitage12 жыл бұрын
Brings back memories of 1980, being 19 and stranded in a dead end city. Even in the tropics during a hot summer this songs gives you a sense of beign inside an existential trap. "Better get the Breakdown Squad out..." PS- Gotta love songs with weather newscasters- see Stormwatch by Jethro Tull
@Neurotripsicks13 жыл бұрын
Fort Dodge here, my Dad played this ALL the time when I was a kid
@mojavesudz7 жыл бұрын
I'm from Iowa, and could not wait to escape, so I relate to this song . I was able to escape in 1997
@09jackstraw12 жыл бұрын
Me too! Grew up in Decorah, Northest corner. I remember listening to this 30 years ago in college and thinking it so cool Manfred Mann wrote a song about Iowa!
@irishdali14 жыл бұрын
Id like to PERSONALLY THANK YOU for making this video... Im currently buried in 3 ft of snow in Council Bluffs Iowa and have been looking EVERYWHERE for this song on video for my Facebook!!! TY TY TY
@tgyk15688 жыл бұрын
Still listening to this in 2016, and it's as relevant as ever.
@terrystewart9308 жыл бұрын
I am in Cedar Falls Iowa. 11-20-2015 Big snow storm 8''-10 '' I am Stranded in Iowa!
@arweiss10013 жыл бұрын
Very cool! Thanks for this. Great to hear one of the first albums Trevor produced (and plays guitar on) for his lofelong friend Manfred Mann.
@twilightsymphony13717 жыл бұрын
I LOVE IOWA!!!! I'm guessing perhaps Manfred had a bad experience... (:/)
@mikdore91348 жыл бұрын
Back three years later,,still love it. haha
@Jasenspeed40114 жыл бұрын
I like the fact that this song means so many different things to so many people. All I picture though is a bunch of Spitfires returning from a mission over the Channel, with one or two of them damaged and thus being forced to make an emergency landing. And though it is the shipping forecast, how far removed is "7 miles, 1016, rising," to "A crescent at Angels one five."
@soapytiger12 жыл бұрын
I remember hearing this occasionally on KGGO in Des Moines when I was growing up back when they would play cuts from the album. Has this crazy spooky & haunting feel. Always wondered if it was referring to the plane that crashed in Mason City with Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, & Big Bopper.
@melissagerber72316 жыл бұрын
Kurt Lightner no, their vehicle broke down in Iowa.
@bobthomas77876 жыл бұрын
Never Thought about it till you mentioned it. Makes me Wonder !
@ASFLLM14 жыл бұрын
Oh man. Grew up in Iowa. Remember this song and haven't heard it in decades...
@kingkeef816810 жыл бұрын
I was "stranded" in Cedar Rapids for 35 yrs, now Im stranded in Illinois lol
@Krabadaque9 жыл бұрын
And Mike Heron (ex-ISB) on guest vocals!
@ROCKINHARD77200914 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this,I hav it on vinyl,currently standed in cedar falls,Iowa [ice storm]
@mikdor262211 жыл бұрын
Rockin,,have loved this for decades,,,and i am not from iowa,,,,
@503challenger10 жыл бұрын
I was stranded in ft. dodge, N.C. is home for the last 30 tears.
@lmt6125114 жыл бұрын
Anyone who thinks that Bumfuck Egypt is the far end of the earth hasn't been to the Cedar Rapids airport in blizzard.
@ace76112 жыл бұрын
to see this much snow again..
@sinbadnatas14 жыл бұрын
That is one bad-ass snowman at the end.
@RobertBroderson9 жыл бұрын
yep,stranded in iowa.....still
@andymonaghan75017 жыл бұрын
Absolutely Mantastic. Please play the UK
@ace76112 жыл бұрын
i have lost this CD, need to find it for my Mum
@nw7us12 жыл бұрын
@ZiggyTheHamster They have just remastered the CD and re-released it. It is now also on Rhapsody and Amazon. I just got it. This is one of my most-favorite songs from that period. Has Morse code - S E E T S and other shortwave sounds.
@cbear333312 жыл бұрын
iowa rules
@mirzafofy14 жыл бұрын
Great TUNE
@Gina2705639 жыл бұрын
Thank you! :o)
@prairiehawker12 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU!!!!!
@craigsmith493910 жыл бұрын
it got us again........frosty frosty frosty!
@wjn656511 жыл бұрын
me too since 1965
@mikdor262210 жыл бұрын
stranded on planet earth,,,
@breenbradysmom9 жыл бұрын
CLINTON IOWA ! ! ! STRANDED PLEASE SEND HELP ! !
@michaelwthalman10 жыл бұрын
It happens.....Like right now.
@crosspatch12 жыл бұрын
These are shipping weather reports, not aviation. The ship's name wind direction and speed, visibility, barometer in millibars, and any precipitation.
@personanongratano18 жыл бұрын
Somebody PLEASE tell me the real story behind this song!!! Is it true? Were they really stranded here? I grew up hearing this constantly on the rock station - bc I'm in IOWA! I love MM so much. I have to know; I've been going crazy for 3 decades over this. At first I thought they were literally stranded here during a concert and snowstorm in the 70's but I don't even know. TELL MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! But don't make shit up.
@diceportz71076 жыл бұрын
grew up just south of Dubuque!
@smilemore7113 жыл бұрын
I'd just like to say that Manfred Mann's Earth Band is the greatest band of all time.
@andymonaghan75017 жыл бұрын
dawn thompson You are absolutely correct Dawn
@jeanlafitte26810 жыл бұрын
I always visualized something a bit more high tech than a simple breakdown on an Iowa highway.... the background vocals obviously refer to mile distances in Britain (hence the place names), but the sound effects and lyrics imply something different, like space travel (the call signs aren't anything from American CB radio, that's for sure). And "MAYDAY" (corruption of "M'aidez!" or "help me!") is an old radio distress signal.
@olizug7 жыл бұрын
was in my walkman
@michaelwthalman6 жыл бұрын
I think they dreamt up this song driving on hwy 20 and had to stay at the Boonedocks motel..
@ha7pc9 жыл бұрын
The heard morse code is not really SOS ( ... - - - ... ) It is SEETS ( ... . . - ... ) Maybe because of the rythm... :)
@luckybob69214 жыл бұрын
stranded in iowa city
@majcorbin12 жыл бұрын
The Morse Code found in this song is 3 dots-3 dashes-3 dots....S O S
@Neurotripsicks13 жыл бұрын
Fort Dodge thumbs
@dennisgt7412 жыл бұрын
found the cd on ebay.....it's available from the U.K
@Hornadayfan12 жыл бұрын
Been there, done that for 20 years. That's why on no longer live there...
@kenpeverill14 жыл бұрын
I been stranded in Iowa for 30 years.......lol
@user-ro4ux2pi9w8 жыл бұрын
Seems like nobody have been here for a long time. That's why ✪✪✪✪✪✪✪✪✪✰
@greglorious12 жыл бұрын
hotel echo, this is mike november
@miller80377 жыл бұрын
pip pip .I say ,old chap. Hope this is a secure telegraph.Wouldn't want the Nazis to hear.
@crosspatch12 жыл бұрын
These are shipping weather reports, not aviation.
@johnboy18288 жыл бұрын
I first heard this back in '83 from the "Heavy Metal" movie/soundtrack I believe. Am I mistaken???
@ZiggyTheHamster14 жыл бұрын
The info on this video is wrong. The correct info: Artist: Manfred Mann's Earth Band Album: Chance Song: Stranded I have on vinyl; had to download this CD though. It's impossible to find.
@chriswalton206112 жыл бұрын
Love Manfred Mann. Out of all the bands this is one of the most interesting one. This is what makes them so unique. This is a very good song. I love the different ways Chris Thompson used to make his voice sound different. Vibratone? Or Monophone? Correct me if I'm wrong. I just love the strange ways they can do things with their instruments.
@Krabadaque6 жыл бұрын
I can hear Mike Heron's voice there, too!
@drfreud6513 жыл бұрын
@mw21bb23 They still do. ;-)
@familyvlogs91056 жыл бұрын
KRNA played it all the time.
@olivers.96066 жыл бұрын
What is the meaning of "need to feel the stars sleep by at night"? I do not understand that sentence but it is in my mind. Thanks in advance.
@ace76112 жыл бұрын
AH HELL!! i just relized that the meldoly of the song is S.O.S. ... --- ... i have been listing to it for 16 years ( i am 21 if any was wondering) and it takes me drinking to relize it I know poeple say they do things better drunk but i fell retarded
@ASFLLM14 жыл бұрын
Those aren't ICBM anything. Those are aviation weather reports. It's "mist", not "missed" along with the visibility "4 miles".
@utuber11196314 жыл бұрын
@kubrick681 Stranded in Iowa, USA but missing his girl in the UK (the UK shipping forecast from BBC World Service Radio) which is closed in under deep depression. As for the clowns who think it has anything to do with ICBMs they certainly have to be merkins. Who have never even looked at an atlas of the waters around the UK or they would recognise the names of the shipping areas. Nothing to do with aircraft either. Mr quick off the draw. ID your target next time
@floydflys72f13 жыл бұрын
dr. please enlighten us to the morse code I am very interested!!!
@writingfool773414 жыл бұрын
Here I am in central Iowa...we made it through the last round of snow...another round even worse is on the way + ice! Would I want to live anywhere else? Not a chance. : )
@eoppen14 жыл бұрын
My. this looks familiar...*grin*
@ace76112 жыл бұрын
@floydflys72f it is s.o.s. why is my stuff not being posted?!
@kubrick68114 жыл бұрын
What is with the shipping forcast? I never understood why the lyrics say stranded in Iowa and there is a shipping forcast playing.
@Jack69714 жыл бұрын
Thanks! mw21bb23
@drfreud6513 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know the morse code in it? I do, and I'm a chick. ;-)
@RyanM19726 жыл бұрын
drfreud65 sos
@MrQuickdraw41714 жыл бұрын
First, it is not a shipping forcast. If you grew up during the Cold War (50's and on), you might recognize that as missle launch data, hits & misses and the may-days as "Stranded" troops.
@RickWrong11 жыл бұрын
Shipping reports? Kind of an odd thing to put in a song about being stranded in the middle of the continent. lol
@suekillip7 жыл бұрын
It seriously sucks
@MrQuickdraw41714 жыл бұрын
Ok, first this is not a weather forcast. Anyone who lived thru the cold war knows this is a description of missle launches, apogees and fallings. Nuclear winter!
@MrQuickdraw41714 жыл бұрын
@kubrick681 It's not a shipping forcast. You must be post Cold-war born as these are ICBM missile launches, hits, misses and everything in between!
@Neurotripsicks13 жыл бұрын
Fort Dodge here, my Dad played this ALL the time when I was a kid
@Jasenspeed40114 жыл бұрын
I like the fact that this song means so many different things to so many people. All I picture though is a bunch of Spitfires returning from a mission over the Channel, with one or two of them damaged and thus being forced to make an emergency landing. And though it is the shipping forecast, how far removed is "7 miles, 1016, rising," to "A crescent at Angels one five."