Sam Manning (musician)

Sam Manning (musician)

Sam Manning was one of the earliest Calypsonians who achieved international acclaim. He was born around 1899 in Trinidad and died in 1960 while traveling in Africa.

Manning served in the British West Indies Regiment in France and the Middle during World War I. In the early 1920s, he moved to New York where he recorded music that combined jazz and calypso rhythms. His song "Lieutenant Julian" commemorated the 1929 transatlantic flight by Trinidadian Hubert Fauntleroy Julian. In 1934, he moved to England, where he gave performances in London.

His companion was Amy Ashwood Garvey, Marcus Garvey's first wife. She produced "Brown Sugar," a jazz musical production at the Lafayette Theatre, which featured Manning and Fats Waller and his band. In London, she and Manning opened the Florence Mills Social Club in Carnaby Street which quickly became a gathering spot for the city's black intellectuals.

Manning returned to New York in 1941. That same year, he produced the only known calypso "soundies," film clips made for film jukeboxes located in restaurants and bars. They featured Manning and his ensemble, and Trinidadian dance legend Beryl McBurnie.In 1947, Manning wrote and directed "Caribbean Carnival", a Broadway show produced by Adolph Thenstead which was billed as 'First Calypso Musical Ever Presented." It was a lavish production which featured 50 singers and dancers, among them New York-based calypsonian, the Duke of Iron, Trinidadian dancer, Pearl Primus, and Manning himself. Manning and Thenstead also founded a record company, Cyclone.

References

* [http://www.calypsoworld.org/noflash/artists-15.htm Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Calypso: A World Music.]
* [http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/isam/S04Newshtml/Calypso/Calypso2.htm Stephen Stuempfle, Documenting Calypso in New York and the Atlantic World.]
* [http://www.nalis.gov.tt/calypsonians/calypsomusic_CALYPSOonFILM.htm National Library and Information System of Trinidad and Tobago.]
* [http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/kaiso29.htm Kaiso No 29 November 6, 1999]
* [http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/2378/Hubert_Julian_The_Black_Eagle Hubert Julian, "The Black Eagle"]
* [http://www.answers.com/topic/amy-ashwood Amy Ashwood]

External links

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