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Frankie Manning: Dancers and Musicians - A Mutually Beneficial Relationship

by AAJ Staff
April 30, 2009

Editor's Note: Frankie Manning died on April 27th at New York City's Lenox Hill Hospital of pneumonia. He was 94.By Frankie Manning (with Cynthia R. Millman) I've been a Lindy hopper since the '30s, when the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem became my second home and I started working with Whitey's Lindy Hoppers. ...

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Frankie Manning Dies at 94; Helped Popularize the Lindy Hop

April 29, 2009

Frankie “Musclehead" Manning, a Harlem dancer and Tony Award-winning choreographer widely celebrated as one of the pioneers of the Lindy Hop, a breathlessly acrobatic swing dance style of the 1930s and '40s, died April 27 at New York City's Lenox Hill Hospital of pneumonia. He was 94. The effortlessly nimble Manning was a star attraction of ...

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