Vocal group transferred to ‘Twilight Zone’
Over the years, vocal group Manhattan Transfer have had a number of awards and chart successes for their music, in both the jazz and pop categories. However, you shouldn’t be surprised that my favorite song of theirs is “Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone,” an unusual pop hit that included a Rod Serling impression, and a dance groove built around the original show’s theme.
The song comes from 1979’s Extensions, the fifth studio album by The Manhattan Transfer. Group member Alan Paul talked to New Jersey Stage about the song: “I was always a big fan of Twilight Zone and, early on, I used to do a Rod Serling impersonation when we would play live. And so I just had this idea. The theme for Twilight Zone kind of became something that was ‘beyond’— it sort of became a point of view. If anything unusual — maybe hinting of the supernatural — would happen, people would go [sings] Da-na-na-na, na-na-na-na and everybody understood what that was.”
Follow the link above for the whole interview.