Bop Doo-Wopp


Bop Doo-Wopp is an album by the Manhattan Transfer, released at the end of 1984 on the Atlantic Records label. Six of the ten tracks on Bop Doo-Wopp are live performances.
The album contains the song "Route 66" which originally appeared on the soundtrack to the Burt Reynolds film Sharky's Machine.
The album is essentially a live album with some additional studio cuts. Five tracks were recorded live at the Nakano Sun Plaza in Japan in November 1983. Songs from these concerts were also released in 1996 on their album Man-Tora! Live in Tokyo. The other live cut, "Duke of Dubuque", was recorded for the Evening at Pops series on PBS. The song "Safronia B" was recorded in Sydney, Australia in December 1983. The other three songs were recorded in New York City.

Charts

This album spawned another Billboard Hot 100 single in "Baby Come Back to Me " which reached #83 on the chart in February 1985. The song was dedicated to the Capris who wrote and recorded it in 1982, and whose single "There's a Moon Out Tonight" was a top 10 hit in 1961.

Awards

"Route 66" hit the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982, reaching #78, and earned the group another Grammy Award in the category of "Grammy Award for [Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group|Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group]."

Personnel

The Manhattan Transfer
Musicians
  • Yaron Gershovsky – keyboards, conductor, musical arrangements
  • Jon Mayer – acoustic piano
  • Tom Kellock – synthesizers
  • Ira Newborn – guitars, musical arrangements
  • Wayne Johnson – guitars, musical arrangements
  • Alex Blake – bass
  • Andy Muson – bass
  • Jim Nelson – drums
  • Art Rodriguez – drums, additional backing vocals
  • Don Roberts – woodwinds, additional backing vocals
  • Al Capps – vocal arrangements
  • Richard Cole – vocal arrangements
  • Phil Mattson – vocal arrangements
  • John Cutcliffe – additional backing vocals
Production