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| | RollingStone.com: Manhattan Transfer Music, Biography, Influences, Followers, Related Projects, Contemporaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | The band started in the late 1960s and had little national success until member Tim Hauser stepped up and took artistic control of the group. |
 | | Hauser upped the jazz quotient considerably (often using the bop vocal act Lambert, Hendricks and Ross as his template) while still leaving plenty of room for nostalgic doo-wop and gentler musical styles. |
 | | In the early '70s, the band had a Top 10 hit with the Sha Na Na-esque "The Boy From New York City," and then had almost equal success with an ode to the jazz mecca Birdland, based on a Weather Report instrumental. |
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