I'll Take Manhattanthe Boys (and Girls) From the Manhattan Transfer Head Down Route 66 to the Bcpa

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You just never know who might take you for a ride when you hail a cab in New York. Take the case of ex-cabbie Tim Hauser, piloting the streets of Manhattan in the early '70s.

Countless thousands were shipped from here to there by the man who had a thing for a 1925 novel by John Dos Passos, "Manhattan Transfer" - one of the author's typically dense and kaleidoscopic urban chronicles set during the highs and lows of New York's Jazz Age.

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I'll Take Manhattanthe Boys (and Girls) From the Manhattan Transfer Head Down Route 66 to the Bcpa

Once before, the musically inclined Hauser had tried to form a singing quintet named after the book. The result was a hybrid country-R&B sound that Capitol Records sold as the 1971 album, "Jukin'."

But alas, the members' personalities weren't as synchronized as thei...

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