Manhattan Transfer - Bop Doo-Wopp (1984) and 44 similar items

Catalog Number: 7-A1-81233 Condition Details: Vinyl plays nicely (play-graded). Cover looks good; light-scuffing, discoloration spots, and surface impressions (front/back); a few creases near edges on back. Inner-sleeve is original (generic white). Spine is easy-to-read with mild-wear. Minor shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge; some wear to corners. Developing split near center of top-edge. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. Columbia House pressing. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: Route 66 Jeannine My Cat Fell In The Well (Well! Well! Well!) The Duke Of Dubuque How High The Moon Baby Come Back To Me (The Morse Code Of Love) Safronia B Heart's Desire That's The Way It Goes Unchained Melody About The Record: Six of the ten tracks onBop Doo-Wopp by Manhattan Transfer are live performances. The album contains the song Route 66 which originally appeared on the soundtrack to the Burt Reynolds film Sharky's Machine. Five tracks were recorded live at the Nakano Sun Plaza in Japan in November 1983. Songs from these concerts were also released in 1996 on their album Man-Tora! Live in Tokyo. The other live cut, Duke of Dubuque, was recorded for the Evening at Pops series on PBS. The song Safronia B was recorded in Sydney, Australia in December 1983. The other three songs were recorded in New York City. This album spawned another Billboard Hot 100 single in Baby Come Back to Me (The Morse Code of Love) which reached No. 83 on the chart in late 1984. The song was dedicated to The Capris (an Italian vocal group from Queens) who wrote and recorded it in 1982, and whose single There's a Moon Out Tonight was a top 10 hit in 1961. Route 66 hit the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982, reaching No. 78, and earned the group another Grammy Award in the category of "Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group."