The Manhattan Transfer Meets Tubby the Tuba

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The Manhattan Transfer Meets Tubby the Tuba
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 1994
RecordedOctober 1993
Genre Jazz
Label Summit Records,
D'Note Classics
Producer Joseph Magee, Norman Newell, Timothy Russell
The Manhattan Transfer chronology
The Very Best of The Manhattan Transfer
(1994)
The Manhattan Transfer Meets Tubby the Tuba
(1994)
Tonin'
(1995)

The Manhattan Transfer Meets Tubby The Tuba is a children's studio album released by The Manhattan Transfer in 1994 on the Summit Records label. It features music by George Kleinsinger and stories by Paul Tripp. This is the group's only children's recording, offering a rendition of the 1945 children's classic that teaches the important lesson: "Be yourself; you can't be anybody else!". [1]

Track listing

  1. "Tubby the Tuba" (13:55)
  2. "Tubby at the Circus" (10:59)
  3. "Tubby Meets a Jazz Band" (11:37)
  4. "The Further Adventures of Tubby the Tuba" (16:23)

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References

  1. "TMT Meets Tubby The Tuba". The Manhattan Transfer . Retrieved March 23, 2023.