Every obit I'm reading this morning portrays the Transfer as a jazz group, but writers forget that they were a prettty big deal on the pop scene in the early to mid-'80s. They scored a Top 10 hit in 1981 with (and won a Grammy for) their cover of The Ad Libs' "Boy From New York City" and VH-1 heavily rotated their videos, many of which I remember as being pretty creative. I'm going to memorialize Hauser with the band's 1980 Top 40 hit "Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone" in which the band did a fine job of incorporating New Wave Devo fashion and a neon disco beat. (It also gives me an excuse to recognize that this month marks the 55th anniversary of the debut of the Zone TV show.) Here's the original video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3eN0e60Zco