The Manhattan Transfer Meets Tubby the Tuba

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Meets Tubby the Tuba
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 1994
RecordedOctober 1993
StudioPhilharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, Florida (music)
Signet Sound Studios, LA, CA (voices)
Genre Jazz
Length53:19
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)
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] This album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children. [2]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
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
Total length:53:19

Personnel

The Manhattan Transfer

The Jazz Band (3)

Production

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References

  1. "TMT Meets Tubby The Tuba". The Manhattan Transfer . Retrieved March 23, 2023.
  2. "Manhattan Transfer". The Recording Academy . Retrieved August 3, 2024.