The Manhattan Transfer
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Oct 28, 2026
Janis SiegelGUEST
I'm Janis Siegel.
Janis SiegelGUEST
I am a founding member of the vocal group The Manhattan Transfer and sang Harmony for 50 years as the alto in the group.
John ClaytonGUEST
I'm John Clayton.
John ClaytonGUEST
I'm a bass player, also a writer, arranger, composer, and pedagogue, teacher, whatever.
Chuck CampbellHOST
He's next after Madonna.
Chuck CampbellHOST
Manhattan Transfer.
Chuck CampbellHOST
That's a long
Wayne BledsoeHOST
conversation and then a really short
Jerry SmithGUEST
Because A&M would have been a great label, too.
Jerry SmithGUEST
Aaron ended up with a subsidiary record label that he called Kinetic Records, and Manhattan Transfer was on that.
Jerry SmithGUEST
Yeah.
Jerry SmithGUEST
So he had that, plus...
Adam ReaderHOST
Bruce Coburn was at number 27 with the folky Wonder Where the Lions Are.
Adam ReaderHOST
And more diversity with the Spinners, Neil Sedaka, Bob Seger, the Manhattan Transfer, there was Kenny Rogers, Tom Petty, even Frank Sinatra was in the chart with New York, New York.
Adam ReaderHOST
Perhaps the biggest shock was the punk and new wave acts who were once very much underground.
Adam ReaderHOST
Just a few years before that, we're starting to flood the charts.
Hunter StairHOST
Listen, what's that band that your aunt liked to fuck to?
Steve HueyHOST
Manhattan Transfer? Yeah,
Hunter StairHOST
it sounds like that.
JD RyznarHOST
Yeah.
JD RyznarHOST
Yeah.
JD RyznarHOST
This song's annoying.
David LyonsHOST
I mean, the Manhattan Transfer kind of are a little annoying.
David LyonsHOST
Yeah,
Vangie Gunn GoodwinHOST
Yeah, there's something about opening your view.
Vangie Gunn GoodwinHOST
I started out, of course, in gospel music, and then, um, only listened to vocal stuff, Manhattan Transfer, um, and loved disco and all of that.
Vangie Gunn GoodwinHOST
And I really didn't listen to instrumental music until my late 20s.
Andrew KeslerHOST
Mm.
speaker_0HOST
Tim Houser passed away in 2014 at the age of 72 from cardiac arrest.
speaker_0HOST
singer for the Manhattan Transfer, the jazz group.
speaker_0HOST
As a matter of fact, he founded the group.
speaker_0HOST
They won a whole bunch of Grammy Awards throughout the decades.
Melissa Robinson-WinemillerHOST
Yeah.
Melissa Robinson-WinemillerHOST
I mean, it's not like these are people that are in my orbit or I ever would have met, you know, Mannheim steamroller and Chip Davis and Manhattan transfer and Gus Van Zandt and like, just, you know, really, really cool, interesting people.
Chason ForehandHOST
Welcome back to time to change.
Chason ForehandHOST
My name is Jason forehand.
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Chason ForehandHOST
That's incredible.
Melissa Robinson-WinemillerHOST
Yeah.
Melissa Robinson-WinemillerHOST
I mean, it's not like these are people that are in my orbit or I ever would have met, you know, Mannheim Steamroller and Chip Davis and manhattan transfer and gus van zandt and like just you know really really cool interesting people
Chason ForehandHOST
that's awesome
Stu WeissmanGUEST
And then she left at the end of s- the first semester to continue her music career.
Stu WeissmanGUEST
That was obviously, well predated the Manhattan Transfer.
Jeff MiersHOST
Yeah.
Stu WeissmanGUEST
But, uh, you know, I met Jay from there.
Sid GribetzHOST
Uh, Richie Cole, fine bebop alto saxophonist from the '70s and '80s, he did an album on the Muse label in 1979 called Hollywood Madness, where he actually did an instrumental version of Hooray for Hollywood.
Sid GribetzHOST
And as a finale for the album, though, he brought together Tom Waits, Eddie Jefferson, and the Manhattan Transfer, uh, to sing a little paean to Hollywood.
Sid GribetzHOST
Hollywood Madness, Richie Cole on the Muse label.
Sid GribetzHOST
Continuing our show on Johnny Mercer, we turn now to a real fun song that Mercer did.
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