Bop Doo-Wopp [SEP] record label
Bop Doo-Wopp
Bop Doo-Wopp is the eighth studio album by The Manhattan Transfer, released in 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 (6 tracks) with some additional studio cuts (4 tracks). Five tracks were recorded live at the
was recorded by Eddie Jefferson on the album "The Main Main," recorded in October 1974, and was covered on The Manhattan Transfer's 1984 album "Bop Doo-Wopp". The Steve Lehman Trio recorded the song on their 2011 album "Dialect Fluorescent".
Pearson eventually retired from his position with Blue Note in 1971 after personnel changes were made; co-founder Alfred Lion retired in 1967 after the label was sold to Liberty Records the previous year, and co-founder Francis Wolff died in 1971.