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Jukin' by The Manhattan Transfer

Jukin'

Release Date: 7/18/1993

Recording Date: 1/1971

Tracks: 10

Length: 00:28:06 Hrs

Label: One Way Records

Type: CD

Genre/Styles:
Pop/Rock, Jazz, Bop, Adult Contemporary, Contemporary Jazz, Vocalese, Mainstream Jazz, Vocal Jazz, AM Pop, Harmony Vocal Group

Album Tracks (10)

Song Title
Length
1.
Chicken Bone Bone
03:20
2.
I Need a Man
03:12
3.
You're a Viper
01:59
4.
Fair and Tender Ladies
02:41
5.
Rosianna
03:03
6.
Sunny Disposish
01:41
7.
Java Jive
02:34
8.
One More Time Around Rosie
04:20
9.
Guided Missiles
03:25
10.
Roll Daddy, Roll
02:21

What the Critics Say

This was the Manhattan Transfer before they become The Manhattan Transfer, an altogether different vocal group from which founder Tim Hauser was the sole holdover. Released by Capitol in the 1970s on LP, and now on a related label in its CD version, Jukin' is an accumulation of scraps recorded over a period of two years in New York and Nashville. Back in those days, the Transfer seemed to be one of several hippie groups (like Spanky and Our Gang and Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks) that looked at the past ironically with arched eyebrows, not like the later Transfer which affectionately celebrated old music at its face value. Hence the pure country treatment of "Fair and Tender Ladies," ain which there is a strong whiff of condescension in the group's nasal accents; even the doo wop tribute "Guided Missiles" reeks of barely concealed contempt. Then as now, the Transfer was unpredictably eclectic in their tastes, while also very much aware of the then-current rock marketplace. Hauser's version of Fats Waller's "You'se a Viper" bears some resemblance to the later Transfer manner, and one number, "Java Jive," appears in the same arrangement as the one the 1975 Transfer used, if rougher in vocal texture. For all of the careful production, there is a casual looseness about these tracks that is typical of its time, the heyday of the hippie -- and as such, today's Transfer fans are in for a surprise if they want to check out the group's beginnings. ~ Richard S. Ginell, Rovi

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