''Coming Out'' is the third album by
The Manhattan Transfer
The Manhattan Transfer is a Grammy award–winning vocal group founded in 1969 that has explored a cappella, vocalese, swing, standards, Brazilian jazz, rhythm and blues, and pop music.
There have been two editions of the Manhattan Transfer, ...
, released August 19, 1976, on
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. Over its first 20 years of operation, Atlantic earned a reputation as one of the most i ...
.
The single "
Chanson d'Amour" hit the No. 1 spot in the United Kingdom for three weeks.
The song "Zindy Lou" featured
Ringo Starr
Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for the Beatles. Starr occasionally sang lead vocals with the ...
and
Jim Keltner on drums,
Dr. John on piano, and Doug Thorngren on percussion. The song "Poinciana (The Song of the Tree)" featured a solo by
Michael Brecker.
Track listing
LP side 1
# "
Don't Let Go" (
Jesse Stone
Jesse Albert Stone (November 16, 1901 – April 1, 1999) was an American rhythm and blues musician and songwriter whose influence spanned a wide range of genres. He also used the pseudonyms Charles Calhoun and Chuck Calhoun. His best-know ...
) - 2:45
# "Zindy Lou" (
Johnny Moore, Eddie Smith) – 2:50
# "
Chanson D'Amour" (
Wayne Shanklin) – 2:55
# "Helpless" (
Holland-Dozier-Holland) – 3:07
# "
Scotch and Soda" (
Dave Guard) – 2:59
# "The Speak Up Mambo (Cuentame)" (Al Castellanos) – 3:05
LP side 2
# "
Poinciana (The Song of the Tree)" (
Nat Simon,
Buddy Bernier) – 4:11
# "S.O.S." (
Ron Roker,
Gerry Shury,
Phil Swern) - 3:10
# "Popsicle Toes" (
Michael Franks) – 4:16
# "It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference" (
Todd Rundgren) – 3:30
# "The Thought of Loving You" (
David White) – 2:56
The album was re-released on CD in March 1993.
Personnel
The Manhattan Transfer
*
Tim Hauser – vocals, vocal arrangements (1-4, 6, 8, 11), song concept (7)
*
Laurel Massé – vocals, vocal arrangements (1, 4, 10)
*
Alan Paul – vocals, vocal arrangements (1, 11), song concept (7)
*
Janis Siegel – vocals, vocal arrangements (1-8, 10, 11)
Musicians
*
Paul Griffin – organ (1)
*
Dr. John – acoustic piano (2)
* John Barnes – acoustic piano (3)
* Steve Paietta –
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...
(3)
*
Clarence McDonald – acoustic piano (4, 8)
*
Bill Payne
William H. Payne (born March 12, 1949) is an American pianist who, with Lowell George, co-founded the American rock band Little Feat. He is considered by many other rock pianists, including Elton John, to be one of the finest American piano roc ...
– acoustic piano (5, 10)
* Roger Steinman – acoustic piano (5)
*
Arthur Jenkins – acoustic piano (6), arrangements (6)
*
Dave Frishberg – acoustic piano (9),
clavinet
The Clavinet is an electrically amplified clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982. The instrument produces sounds by a rubber pad striking a point on a tension ...
(9)
*
Mike Melvoin – acoustic piano (11)
*
Ira Newborn – guitar, orchestral arrangements, musical director, vocal arrangements (5, 9),
electric autoharp (10)
* Ben Benay – guitar (3)
* Bob Bowles – rhythm guitar (9, 10)
* Andy Muson – bass
* Roy Markowitz – drums (1, 6)
*
Jim Keltner – drums (2, 8)
*
Ringo Starr
Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for the Beatles. Starr occasionally sang lead vocals with the ...
– drums (2, 8)
*
Jim Gordon – drums (3, 9)
*
Rick Shlosser – drums (4, 11)
* Jim Nelson – drums (5)
*
David Kemper – drums (10)
*
Bobbye Hall – percussion (1), congas (10)
* Doug Thorngren – percussion (2)
*
Ralph MacDonald – percussion (4, 11), congas (6)
* Nicky Marrero –
timbales (6)
*
Johnny "Dandy" Rodriguez Jr – bongos (6), cowbell (6)
*
Michael Brecker – tenor saxophone (1)
*
Jay Migliori – tenor sax solo (3)
*
Jackie Kelso – baritone sax solo (4), tenor sax solo (8)
*
Randy Brecker – trumpet (1)
Production
*
Richard Perry – producer
* Tim Hauser – assistant producer
* Douglas Botnick – engineer
* Lewis Hahn – engineer
* Rick Rowe – engineer
* Howard Steele – engineer, remixing
* Dennis Devlin – assistant engineer
* Dan Latham – assistant engineer
* Tim Sadler – assistant engineer
* Allen Zentz – mastering
* Bob Defrin – art direction, design
* Abie Sussman – art direction, design
* Suze Randall – cover photography
Certifications
References
External links
Manhattan Transfer official website
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1976 albums
The Manhattan Transfer albums
Albums produced by Richard Perry
Atlantic Records albums