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On this day in 1977, the Manfred Mann’s Earth Band single “Blinded By The Light” went to #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (February 19)

The song was written by Bruce Springsteen and originally appeared on his 1973 debut album “Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.”

This 1976 cover from the Manfred Mann’s Earth Band LP “The Roaring Silence” also went to #1 in Canada, #6 in the UK, #8 in New Zealand, and #11 in Australia.

Believe it or not, Manfred Mann's Earth Band's recording of "Blinded by the Light" is Bruce Springsteen's only #1 single as a songwriter on the US Billboard Hot 100; his highest charting single as a solo performer was "Dancing in the Dark" in 1984, which reached #2, and his only #1 was as part of the USA for Africa ensemble that recorded "We Are the World".

There are two other interesting elements of the song; the first was the idea of drummer Chris Slade to use the chords of "Chopsticks" (the tune had at that point already been integrated into the arrangement) as a transition between song parts, and the second was the "deuce"/"douche" confusion.

Manfred Mann recalled:

“I don't think Springsteen liked our ‘Blinded by the Light’, 'cos we sang 'wrapped up like a douche', and it wasn't written like that and I screwed it up completely. 
It sounded like 'douche' instead of 'deuce', 'cos of the technical process – a faulty azimuth due to tape-head angles, and it meant we couldn't remix it.

Warners in America said, 'You've got to change 'douche', 'cos the Southern Bible belt radio stations think it's about a vaginal douche, and they have problems with body parts down there.' We tried to change it to 'deuce' but then the rest of the track sounded horrible, so we had to leave it. 
We just said, 'If it's not a hit, it's not.'

But in the end, it was #1 in America, and so many people came up to us after and said, 'You know why it made #1?... Everyone was talking about whether it was deuce or douche.' 
Apparently Springsteen thought we'd done it deliberately, which we hadn't, so if I ever saw him I'd avoid him and cringe away like a frightened little boy!”

Springsteen has joked about confusion over the lyrics, claiming that it was not until Manfred Mann rewrote the song to be about a feminine hygiene product that it became popular…

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