Dorothy
Johnson
Norma
Miller
Al
Minns
Frankie
Manning
Mildred
Pollard
Billy
Ricker
Willa
Mae Ricker
Russell
Williams
MOVIES
After
Seben
The
Big Apple
Call
Of The Jitterbug
Can't
Top the Lindy H
Cootie
Williams
Cottontail
Day
At The Races |
Billy Ricker and
his high school sweetheart and wife, Willa
Mae , were close friends with Frankie
Manning from their pre-Savoy days in the early 30's at the Rennaissance
Ballroom till Ricker's death in 1987. Ricker was a member of Whitey's
Lindy Hoppers and later worked as one of Norma
Miller's Jazzmen.
Billy Ricker is credited with creating a
style of the Lindy Hop called "Mutiny" in which a swing out is followed
by one air-step after another. When Frankie
Manning first saw Ricker doing this dance with Esther Washington, he
exclaimed, "Billy, that's mutiny!" meaning it was mutiny against the traditional
Lindy Hop. The name stuck. |
