Tingling

[dieseldawn]

Frankie Manning died yesterday morning. Because of that I'm very depressed and I'm sitting here, watching videos of him and feeling all tingly and close to tears. Most non swing dancers (that would be 99% of you) don't know who Frankie is, or what relevance he had in our lives. kopibren does a nice tribute to him in her blog here. In brief, he was a great

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[babyflite]

I haven't been in the swing scene for a long time but I was sad when I heard the news. I remember interviewing him for one of my radio production project when he was in Sydney and he was just lovely. :(

[dieseldawn]

at Herrang i asked him about his personal life and he scolded me and told me not to pry. Silly me. But then afterwards he forgot! LUBB HIM!!

[dieseldawn]

We were lucky. Just saying we knew sing meant that he always knew us. But I was a frankie stalker and went to all the camps he was at. Lennart knew him really personally as well so I would get second hand stories. I also tap danced with his son, chazz. It's funny his class was so hard I had to drop out and chazz just made fun of me ever since!!

[kopibren]

I'm glad I've been in his classes and danced with him. He was the real deal. I remember he would always call us 'baby', no matter what girl spoke to him. Hehe.

Rest well, Frankie.