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Manhattan Transfer: Bop Doo-Wopp

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Label: Atlantic Recordings
Released: 1984
Time:
 29:24
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Tim Hauser, Richar Perry
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.manhattantransfer.org
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Purchase date: 1998.11.07
Price in €: 10,99



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[1] Route 66 (Troup) - 3:20
[2] Jeannine - 5:30
[3] My Cat Fell in the Well (Well! Well! Well!) - 2:45
[4] Duke of Dubuque - 2:20
[5] How High the Moon (Hamilton/Lewis) - 1:58
[6] Baby Come Back to Me (The Morse Code of Love) - 2:52
[7] Safronia B - 2:08
[8] Heart's Desire - 2:40
[9] That's the Way It Goes - 2:49
[10] Unchained Melody (North/Zaret) - 2:30

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Janis Siegel - Vocals
Cheryl Bentyne - Vocals
Tim Hauser - Vocals
Alan Paul - Vocals

Yaron Gershovsky - Conductor, Keyboards
Wayne Johnson - Guitar
Tom Kellock - Synthesizer
Art Rodriguez - Drums
Alex Blake - Bass, Drums
Don Roberts - Wind, Woodwind

Additional musicians:
John Mayer - Piano
Andy Muson - Bass, Guitar (Bass)
Jim Nelson - Drums
Ira Newborn - Guitar

Howard Steele - Engineer
Elliot Scheiner - Engineer
Richard Lush - Engineer

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6 of 10 cuts are live.



This album, released as a stopgap between major projects, is really an anthology of various studio scraps and live remote pickups, no doubt carefully curated and selected by that indefatigable collector, Tim Hauser. The rhythm track for "My Cat Fell In the Well" dates back to 1976's Coming Out sessions (the vocals are from 1984); everything else comes from the period of 1983-84, including five performances from a live gig in Tokyo that was more comprehensively documented in 1996's Live In Tokyo. In the studio tracks -- a mostly eccentric lot -- the ebullient Transfer doo wop manner is celebrated again in "Baby Come Back to Me" and a nutty, fast "Unchained Melody." Though this is a peculiar, disjointed collection that only a Transfer collector would love -- the brief sum being less than the total of its parts -- the parts are certainly worth hearing, and they are certainly a departure away from the contemporary pop-minded Bodies and Souls.

Richard S. Ginell, All-Music Guide
 

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