Released on Capitol Records in 1971, it was also the only album by the first version of the group, which consisted of Tim Hauser, Erin Dickins, Marty Nelson, Gene Pistilli, and Pat Rosalia.

The album was reissued in the UK by EMI's Music for Pleasure under the title The Manhattan Transfer and Gene Pistilli.

The revised Manhattan Transfer line-up (Tim Hauser, Laurel Massé, Alan Paul and Janis Siegel) signed to Atlantic Records in 1975 and resumed the group's recording career with much greater success.

Issued on a different label than their future successes, with a different line-up and sound from what became their trademark, Jukin' is not acknowledged on the band's official website, nor have any of its tracks been anthologized on compilations.

A European reissue was entitled A Touch of Class and featured misleading packaging and credits that wrongly implied that the songs were performed by the later (post–1972) version of The Manhattan Transfer.