Mecca for Moderns is the sixth studio album by The Manhattan Transfer. It was released in June 1981 by Atlantic Records.
This album was the highest-charting album to date for the group, peaking on Billboard magazine’s Top Pop Catalog Albums chart at No. 22. With this album, the Manhattan Transfer became the first group to win Grammy Awards in both the pop and jazz categories in the same year.
- “On the Boulevard” 4:08
- “The Boy from New York City” 3:40
- “(Wanted) Dead or Alive” 3:27
- “Spies in the Night” 3:59
- “Smile Again” 4:33
- “Until I Met You (Corner Pocket)” 5:17
- “(The Word of) Confirmation” 3:14
- “Kafka” 4:08
- “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square” 3:46
Cheryl Bentyne – vocals
Tim Hauser – vocals
Alan Paul – vocals, vocal arrangement (2, 4)
Janis Siegel – vocals, vocal arrangement (6)
Victor Feldman – Fender Rhodes (1), acoustic piano (1)
Jay Graydon – synthesizers (1, 3), guitar (1-4, 8), arrangements (1, 3, 5, 8), horn arrangements (2), rhythm arrangements (2, 4, 6), vocal arrangements (4, 6)
David Foster – acoustic piano (2, 4, 5), keyboards (5), synthesizers (5)
Greg Mathieson – organ (3), synthesizers (3)
Michael Boddicker – synthesizers (4, 8)
Yaron Gershovsky – acoustic piano (6, 8)
Milcho Leviev – acoustic piano (7, 8), arrangements (7)
Steve George – synthesizers (8)
Steve Lukather – guitar (1, 4, 5)
Dean Parks – guitar (2, 8)
Al Viola – guitar (6)
Abraham Laboriel – bass (1-8)
Steve Gadd – drums (1, 3-8)
Mike Baird – drums (2)
Alex Acuña – percussion (3)
Andy Narell – cowbell (8), steel drums (8)
Don Roberts – saxophone (2)
Tom Scott – saxophone (3), Lyricon (3)
Richie Cole – saxophone (7)
Jerry Hey – trumpet (2)
Bernard Kafka – arrangements (8)
Gene Puerling – arrangements (9)
Jon Hendricks – scatting (7)
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