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Manhattan Transfer: Cafe Carlyle, New York NY

Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 8 February 1975

NEW YORK: While nostalgia for the 'fifties seems to have run its course, nostalgia for the 'thirties has taken a jolt in New York with the arrival of Manhattan Transfer, a slick cabaret quartet whose routine of songs from an era forty years past is making them the talk of the city.

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