Description
The Manhattan Transfer – Mecca For Moderns / Atlantic Audio CD / 7567-81482-2
UPC 075678148224
Mecca for Moderns is the sixth studio album by The Manhattan Transfer. It was released in 1981 by Atlantic Records.
This album was the highest-charting album to date for the group, peaking on Billboard magazine's Top Pop Catalog Albums chart at No. 22. With this album, the Manhattan Transfer became the first group to win Grammy Awards in both the pop and jazz categories in the same year.
| Label: | Atlantic – 7567-81482-2 |
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CD, Album
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| Country: | Europe |
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| Genre: | Jazz, Pop |
| Style: | Contemporary Jazz, Vocal, Easy Listening |
Tracklist:
| 1 |
On The Boulevard |
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4:09 |
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| 2 | Boy From New York City |
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3:40 |
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| 3 | (Wanted) Dead Or Alive |
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3:26 |
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| 4 | Spies In The Night |
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3:59 |
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| 5 | Smile Again |
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4:34 |
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| 6 | Until I Met You (Corner Pocket) |
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5:18 |
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| 7 | (The Word Of) Confirmation |
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3:15 |
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| 8 | Kafka |
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4:08 |
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| 9 | A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square |
| 3:48 |
- Art Direction – Richard De Gussi, Sarah Richardson (4), Steven Arnold
- Bass – Abraham Laboriel (tracks: 1 to 8)
- Contractor – Frank De Caro
- Drums – Mike Baird (tracks: 2), Steve Gadd (tracks: 1, 3 to 8)
- Engineer [Assistant] – Bob Bullock, Deborah Thompson
- Engineer [Mastering] – Bernie Grundman
- Engineer [Recording] – Joseph Bogan
- Engineer [Remix] – Jay Graydon
- Guitar – Al Viola (tracks: 6), Dean Parks (tracks: 2, 8), Jay Graydon (tracks: 1 to 4, 8), Steve Lukather (tracks: 1, 4, 5)
- Keyboards, Synthesizer – David Foster (tracks: 5)
- Lyricon, Saxophone – Tom Scott (tracks: 3)
- Organ, Synthesizer – Greg Mathieson (tracks: 3)
- Percussion – Alex Acuna (tracks: 3)
- Piano – David Foster (tracks: 2, 4, 5), Milcho Leviev (tracks: 7, 8), Yaron Gershovsky (tracks: 6, 8)
- Piano, Keyboards – Victor Feldman (tracks: 1)
- Producer – Jay Graydon
- Saxophone – Don Roberts (tracks: 2), Richie Cole (tracks: 7)
- Scat – Jon Hendricks (tracks: 7)
- Steel Drums, Cowbell – Andy Norell (tracks: 8)
- Synthesizer – Jay Graydon (tracks: 1, 3), Mike Boddicker (tracks: 4, 8), Steve George (tracks: 8)
- Trumpet – Jerry Hey (tracks: 2)
- Vocals – Alan Paul, Cheryl Bentyne, Janis Siegel, Tim Hauser
