The Manhattan Transfer - Mecca for Moderns

The fifth record, containing the Top Ten Hit, "Boy from New York City," (which won a Grammy for Best Pop Performance) and "Until I Met You (Corner Pocket)," which won a Grammy for Best Jazz Performance, the first time a group had won awards in both the pop and jazz categories in a single year! Of course, those two songs are worth the price of the CD, but, in addition, you'll hear "A Nightingale Sung in Berkeley Square," sung a cappella, from the Gene Puerling arrangement. (Gene won a Grammy for this one!) Also: The Caribbean-influenced "(Wanted) Dead or Alive," with it's steel drums and cowbell-infectious-and Charlie Parker's "Confirmation," which predicates the group's exploration of vocalese.

1) On the Boulevard
2) Boy from New York City
3) Dead or Alive (Wanted)
4) Spies in the Night
5) Smile Again
6) Until I Met You (Corner Pocket)
7) Confirmation (The Word of)
8) Kafka
9) Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square a