Monday, May 26, 2014

Frankie Manning and the Lindy Hop

Comeback for the Lindy Hop (Give Credit to Sweden).  (The New York Times, 5/23/2014)

The Lindiest.  It was there that he met Mr. Manning, a legend among Lindy hoppers who died in 2009 at age 94.

The festival in New York was named Frankie 100 because Monday would have been Mr. Manning’s 100th birthday, and the events include a parade on Lenox Avenue in Harlem.

He Lindied from Harlem to Hollywood when he was a young man, appearing in the 1941 comedy “Hellzapoppin” in a marathon sequence that many Lindy hoppers revere as the best such performance ever filmed.

Frankie Manning & Ann Johnson at 1:56.


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