So "Freaked out this year..." Manhattan Transfer's "Christmas Album"from

[KoKo]

I saw a PBS Special on "Manhattan Transfer" a couple of years ago...but wasn't in the "mood" for them then.

Try to find it...Oldie DU'ers...it will remind you of your older cousins who used to listen to that "early Fifties Stuff" and sort of fits for me in my "Election Depression Mode" of today. Smooth and not confrontational in time.

Just do a Google on "Manhatten Transfer" to hear their sound...it's not for everyone...but this oldie Christmas CD has done the trick for me this year... "Let it Snow" is incredible...for "smooth jazz" and "Pop" for those of you who can't deal with Christian Religion and Current Pop...because you are too freaked out with anything "current."

There's a little jazz, strings in the Platters, etc. tradition before R&R, and more sound of the "4 Aces" and "4 Ladd's" sound with a little Henry Mancini thrown in which is the "transition."

Love IT!!!!!

[KoKo]

1. Kick...because I had to come back and edit....heavily...that's what I get

for posting "off the top of my head." :D

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. My sister had this album by them when we were kids, I really liked it!

Really liked the "Java Jive" song. Sound snippets available at the amazon link below.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002I8N/qid=1103767647/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/103-4172633-7012645?v=glance&s=music

[progmom]

3. Wow, two Manhattan Transfer threads in one week

Glad you like the Christmas Album. It's got a great sound.
They have another, all-acapella Christmas album out this year, but so far it's only been released in Japan.

[KoKo]

4. Geeze! In Japan! Whoa......I feel really "out of it." But then that's

the point of my post...I'm "out of it this year." Want to go way back...but didn't think "Manhattan Transfer" was from the 1940's or something......???