Manifest Destiny is the second album by The Dictators and their first after switching to the Asylum label. Trouser Press praised the album as "another helping of brilliant Shernoff originals".

Track listing

Personnel

The Dictators

Handsome Dick Manitoba – lead vocals

Ross "The Boss" Friedman – lead guitar, 12-string guitar

Scott "Top Ten" Kempner – rhythm guitar

Andy Shernoff – keyboards, lead and backing vocals

Mark "The Animal" Mendoza – bass guitar

Richie Teeter – drums, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Sleeping with the TV On" and "Hey Boys"

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Additional musicians

Petronius Wood – additional keyboards

Production

Murray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman – producers

John Jansen – engineer

Andy Abrams, Corky Stasiak, Gray Russell, Jay Krugman, Rod O'Brien, Thom Panunzio – assistant engineers Steve L. Schenck – production coordinator Anne Garner, Roni Hoffman, Veronica Drew Ink - art direction, design Eric Meola - photography

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References

The Dictators albums

1977 albums

Asylum Records albums

Albums produced by Murray Krugman

Albums produced by Sandy Pearlman

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