Extensions (Manhattan Transfer album)
- Extensions (Manhattan Transfer album)
Infobox Album
Name = Extensions
Type = studio
Artist = The Manhattan Transfer
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Released = October 31, 1979
Recorded =
Genre = Jazz
Length =
Label = Atlantic Records
Producer = Jay Graydon
Reviews =
Last album = "The Manhattan Transfer Live"
1978
This album = "Extensions"
1979
Next album = "Mecca for Moderns"
1981
"Extensions" was released by The Manhattan Transfer on October 31, 1979 on the Atlantic Records label.
This album began a new era for the group: This album was the first one with Cheryl Bentyne, who replaced Laurel Massé. It was also the first album that contained songs that were hits in both the jazz and pop categories. The disco hit song "Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone" reached #12 on Billboard's Disco chart, and on the Hot 100 reached #30. "Trickle, Trickle" reached #73 on the Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 chart. Overall, the album reached #55 on the Billboard Magazine Top LP's chart.
The most widely known song from this album, Joe Zawinul's "Birdland," won the group its first Grammy Award for Best Jazz/Fusion Performance, Vocal or Instrumental in 1980. [ [http://theenvelope.latimes.com/factsheets/awardsdb/env-awards-db-landing,0,3713019.htmlstory LA Times Grammy winners database] Accessed 2008 April 14.] Jon Hendricks wrote lyrics for the vocalese version on the album and Janis Siegel received a Grammy for her vocal arrangement of "Birdland". Eddie Jefferson was writing the new lyrics for the song "Birdland", but he was killed before finishing them.Fact|date=April 2008 This album is dedicated to him. "Birdland" was the most played Jazz track in 1980Fact|date=March 2007 and many regard "Birdland" as the "signature song" of the group.
Charts
"Extensions" debuted on Billboard's Top Pop Album chart on December 8, 1979.
Track listing
# "Birdland" (6:00)
# "Wacky Dust" (3:10)
# "Nothin' You Can Do About It" (4:25)
# "Coo Coo U" (2:13)
# "Body And Soul" (4:26)
# Twilight Zone / Twilight Tone
## "Twilight Zone" (1:08)
## "Twilight Tone" (4:57)
# "Trickle Trickle" (2:19)
# "Shaker Song" (4:30)
# "Foreign Affair" (3:54)
References / Sources
* [http://www.manhattantransfer.org/ The Manhattan Transfer Official Website]
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