| The Best of the Manhattan Transfer | |
| Type: | greatest |
| Artist: | The Manhattan Transfer |
| Cover: | The Best of the Manhattan Transfer.jpg |
| Released: | November or December 1981 |
| Genre: | Vocal Jazz |
| Label: | Atlantic |
| Prev Title: | Mecca for Moderns |
| Prev Year: | 1981 |
| Next Title: | Bodies and Souls |
| Next Year: | 1983 |
The Best Of The Manhattan Transfer was released in 1981 on the Atlantic Records label by The Manhattan Transfer for the Holiday Season.[1] It contained the "best of" their hits from their early Atlantic years (1975–1981). All of the tracks had been previously released on four of their five Atlantic studio albums: The Manhattan Transfer (1975), Pastiche (1978), Extensions (1979), and Mecca for Moderns (1981). No songs from their second studio album, Coming Out (1976), were included on US or international releases, except on early Australian and New Zealand vinyl releases where a slightly different track order omitted "Nightingale" in favour of "Chanson D'Amour" and "Where Did Our Love Go."
The album cover art is an adaptation of A.M. Cassandre's 1927 Nord Express poster.[2]