Manhatten Transfer Ep. 1 8-10-1975

With Commercials

[@sandybarner1301]

Thank you, George, for showing this. I’ve been a TMT fan for forty years. I have all the albums, then cd’s, and I’ve watched one-song performances as they’re shown on RUclips. This was bliss! They’ve been at this fifty years! I’m seventy-nine and they have always been my Number One. Thanks!

[@rogerd3051]

This is just so wonderful , I have been a fan since Tim's first album , sad to think he is no longer with us , they were best vocal band I heard in my life , thank you for posting this

[@mjstrat]

I remember this show, their first as a summer replacement for the Cher show. Became a fan from that point forward, almost 50 years now.

[@JeffChase]

We became fans at the same time, Mike. I still remember coming home from riding my bike and watching this.

[@ohiosharon8945]

Me too!❤❤❤❤

[@mlbrooks4066]

I loved their show. Hearing Tuxedo Junction brings back so many happy memories. My husband was friends with Laurel's grandparents and we visited them often. Her grandfather, Leonard Kronendonk was with Fred Waring's Pennsyvanians, one of the finest bass-baritones of his era.

[@topherv4229]

I have wanted to see one of their shows again for sooooo long! I remember this as a summer replacement and just fell in love with the group! AND the music!
Thank you for posting!!!!!!!!

[@ohiosharon8945]

First Tv show we were in a motel room in New Mexico on vacation. I fell in love with them and have been a fan ever since. One of their concerts was the best concert i ever went to!❤❤❤❤😊

[@roberthoffhines5419]

Ran across this when I was 11. Tuxedo Junction gave me chills. Loved them ever since. Looking forward to this. Oh, the band is rippin...

[@user-ct6sp1rw7x]

Lucky to see them in 1974 at Reno Sweeneys in NYC just before their 1st album released
Each talented on their own but together fantastic!

[@charleslopez3924]

I'm old enough to remember watching this show on CBS, New York City back in 1975. I thought this TV show was way ahead of it's time. and extremely talented for it's Their vocal harmonies we're Soo perfect. 12:40

[@swbbreps8464]

pre-Cheryl Bentyne, that’s Laurel Masse!

[@michaellazzeri2069]

THhs show was a summer replacement & I saw as much of them as i possibly could. There was such talent, you never knew just what they would sing.

[@gionmusic]

Been looking for this for ages. Many thanks for proving it did exist :)

[@tolwyn_official]

Front row, center when they performed in Wenatchee, 2023. Wow.

[@michaellazzeri2069]

Ohhh, how I've loved this group ! Through all iterations & musical changes. Such talent ! ----------RIP, Tim Hauser, & Eldorado Caddy .-----------------MJL, 76 y/o

[@maha77]

Wow this is so great to see, I had no idea such a show existed

[@bocaymon]

OMG! Incredible! This is my fab upload since ... I don't know when!

[@Sparkjean]

Alan so elegant...and Jon Voight when he was 'sane'.

[@mawgateway]

Jon Voight has always been sane.

[@mmffxx]

They performed like this every week?? WOW

[@square-on-wheels]

Fabulous!

[@mthivier]

I can remember watching this when it aired back during the summer of '75. So much fun, and the Bicentennial Minute at the end was a nice bonus. They advertised "The Dick Cavett Show" as airing on Saturday nights at 10 p.m. Carol Burnett must not have moved to that timeslot yet.

[@swbbreps8464]

Laurel Masse!

[@jnadle1]

Personally, the musical director should've been Peter Matz. Those orchestral arrangements seem so like Peter on his days with Carol Burnett.

[@michaeljarosz4062]

He also arranged Streisand's first five albums.......

[@hor2kulture]

How glamorous was Laurel Masse'? She was the true star of the group.

[@baldrbraa]

More surreal than The Residents.

[@slix96]

Such talent...today’s music uses so much technology to make the singer sound “decent “.

[@jnadle1]

No wonder people are walking away from today's music. No wonder why there's no artist out there that has "longevity." Time to shut the music industry down... permanently.

[@lainey3521]

Wow, what a gem!!!! Here in the UK I had no idea such a show existed. Was it weekly? How many episodes? Are any more available now?! I fell in love with the ManTran when Chanson d'Amour hit the charts here in '76, and I avidly bought and devoured all their early albums. In fact Chanson and then Je t'attends lit the spark for French in me and determined the entire direction of my life to this day. God bless ManTran (and the wonderful Laurel Massé, who was such a loss to the group) - now finished their final tour, but I pray they'll be tempted to return from retirement someday 🙏❤❤

[@donnabillen2407]

Snitches 😆😆😆, that cat is low. I love them 💗 💓 ♥️

[@nygardon]

Any idea who that is playing Doug the Duck? I don't see that the actor is credited anywhere

[@diamondsmusic6413]

Archie Hahn is the actor. (You might recognize him as the Room Service waiter from This Is Spinal Tap.)

[@caryt59]

On "Gloria", Alan is summoning his JOHN TRAVOLTA alter ego!

[@isuriadireja91]

it's the other way around. Travolta in Grease was hugely BORROWING and channeling Alan Paul, who WAS in the original Grease, on Broadway.

[@roberthoffhines5419]

Indeed, this aired the summer before Welcome Back Kotter hit in September. JT may have picked up more Alan Paul than we realize.

[@m.e.d.7997]

Angelina Jolie was only a few months old.

[@isuriadireja91]

i totally did NOT expect Jon Voight would, in a million years, ever connected to The Manhattan Transfer.
man, how times've changed. He used to be an okay dude.

[@ImogenC-rt3fm]

Sorry but all I can hear is her eyeshadow…😊

[@ImogenC-rt3fm]

Who’s seeding my YT feed? Cleetus have ewe married me yet?

[@ImogenC-rt3fm]

I don’t mean that! This is GOLD!!!!

[@ImogenC-rt3fm]

Thanks to this poster! I must admit to having seen the original broadcast. So be kind to an old, olde cat lady. We’re a dying breed. Now there are non-binary semi-cis-gendered feline-preferring persons of potentially pre-surgical transgender presentation-if you will, guvna. Now what? Why, Manhattan Transfer (Brad, GET OUT OF MY AUTOCOMPLETE! You’re already well-rooted in my heart, mind, and soul. And yet, and yet: Have our mutually yearning lips EVER met? And yes, I ran away. But did YOU give chase? Yeah. There it is. I’m broken AND broke. You’ve proven you know how to find me. HELP! Now would be the time.

[@ImogenC-rt3fm]

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