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55 unusual facts about Manley "Sonny" Carter


A. P. Carter

On her 2008 album All I Intended to Be, Emmylou Harris includes the song "How She Could Sing the Wildwood Flower", co-written with Kate and Anna McGarrigle, about the relationship between A.P. and Sara, inspired by a documentary that the three of them saw on television.

The A. P. and Sara Carter House, A. P. Carter Homeplace, A. P. Carter Store, Maybelle and Ezra Carter House, and Mt. Vernon Methodist Church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as components of the Carter Family Thematic Resource.

Albert E. Carter

He taught school six years and then was graduated from the law department of the University of California, Berkeley in 1913.

Amon G. Carter

The Southern Air Transport terminal at Fort Worth Meacham International Airport, now Atlantic Aviation, was dedicated to Amon Carter in 1933.

Arthur L. Carter

In 1967, he married Dixie Carter, and they eventually had two daughters, Ginna and Mary Dixie.

Bruce Carter

Bruce W. Carter (1950–1969), Vietnam War veteran and Medal of Honor recipient

Bruce W. Carter

He received his early schooling at Queens Elementary School in Pasadena, Texas.

Charles E. O. Carter

He served in the army during the First World War and it was at this time he became interested in astrology after requesting one of Alan Leo's famous "one-shilling reports".

Curtis L. Carter

His greatest accomplishment at Marquette was the creation of the Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art.

Dan T. Carter

Dan T. Carter (born Florence County, South Carolina) is an American historian.

Drew Correa

Initially struggling with relatively little work as a producer, Correa received his first major label placement, Lil Wayne's "Mr. Carter", featuring American rapper and mogul Jay-Z.

Duane M. Carter

In 2008, Duane signed with ISMS Records, an Austin, Texas based record label owned by Fito Kahn; subsequently Duane's CD "Never Say Never" was release in October of that year.

Edward Carter

Edward A. Carter, Jr. (c. 1917–1963), U.S. Army Medal of Honor recipient for actions during World War II

Edward W. Carter

In 1945, he served as an executive of Broadway Stores, later endowed with 150 stores and sales of $7.5 billion a year.

Gebhart v. Belton

Gebhart was filed in 1951 in the Delaware Court of Chancery by lawyers Jack Greenberg and Louis L. Redding under a strategy formulated by Robert L. Carter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

George Carter

George F. Carter (1912–2004), American geographer and anthropologist

George F. Carter

He cites Hannes Lindemann's solo crossing of the Atlantic in a dugout canoe as evidence that humans could in fact have made the same journey in past.

George R. Carter

Roosevelt eventually appointed him Secretary of the Territory in 1902, and then Territorial Governor in 1903, succeeding Sanford B. Dole who resigned to become a federal judge.

His mother was Sybil Augusta Judd (1843–1906), daughter of Gerrit P. Judd, and his father was businessman Henry Alpheus Peirce Carter.

H. E. Carter

In recognition of his contributions at the National Science Board, a mountain ridge in Antarctica, Carter Ridge, was named after him.

Harold A. Carter

Among the people who have been raised going to New Shiloh Baptist Church was Byron Pitts who spend some time speaking of Carter in his memoir.

Henry A. P. Carter

His brother Joseph Oliver Carter (1835–1909) married Mary Ladd (1840–1908), daughter of the founder of early trading company Ladd & Co. William Ladd (1807–1863).

Also during this time, the free trade treaty was renewed, with a controversial clause that guaranteed the use of Pearl Harbor as a US Navy base.

Henry Carter

Henry A. P. Carter (1837–1891), American diplomat in the Kingdom of Hawaii

Henry H. Carter

For most of his professional life he was interested in the translation of 12th- and 13th-century manuscripts, written by monks, about the stories of Joseph of Arimathea and the Holy Grail, and the legend of El Cid.

Herbert Carter

H. E. Carter (Herbert Edmund Carter, 1910–2007), American biochemist and educator

James Carter

James G. Carter (1795–1849), American state legislator and education reformer

Jill P. Carter

Jill P. Carter is the daughter of the late Walter P. Carter, who was a civil rights activist and leader in the desegregation movement in Maryland in the 1950s and 1960s.

Jonathan Carter

Jonathan H. Carter (died 1887), North Carolina-born planter, sailor, and Confederate States of America gunboat builder

Jonathan H. Carter

Low water levels in the Red River prevented the Missouri from participating in the defense of western Louisiana when the army of Union General Nathaniel P. Banks and the fleet of Admiral David Dixon Porter advanced on Shreveport in April 1864.

Joseph C. Carter

In 1978 he joined the Boston Police Department where his positions including patrol officer, detective, patrol supervisor, Deputy Superintendent, Superintendent, Chief of Staff of the department and Chief Administrative Hearing Officer, presiding over all departmental disciplinary trial boards.

Louis Lambert

The disappointed Fitzmorris and three other major Democratic gubernatorial candidates all endorsed Treen: Secretary of State Paul J. Hardy, originally from St. Martinville, state Senator Edgar G. "Sonny" Mouton, Jr., of Lafayette, and outgoing House Speaker Edgerton L. "Bubba" Henry of Jonesboro in Jackson Parish in north Louisiana.

Luther C. Carter

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1860 to the Thirty-seventh Congress.

Matt Carter

Matthew G. Carter (1913–2012), first African-American Mayor of Montclair, New Jersey

Matthew G. Carter

His running mates were three incumbent Senators, Michael Giuliano, James Wallwork, and Milton Waldor, as well as North Caldwell Republican Chairman Frederic Remington.

Professionally, Carter also held positions as the assistant director of the YMCA publishing house, based in New York City, and the Department of Community Affairs for LaRoche.

Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art

The museum opened in 1984 following a university collaborative effort that was chaired by professor Curtis L. Carter.

Question P

The effort to gather signatures to put Question P on the ballot, in the first place, was spearheaded by a grassroots political action coalition that included Community and Labor United for Baltimore (CLUB), the Baltimore Green Party, the Baltimore office of ACORN and state delegates Curt Anderson and Jill P. Carter.

Raymond H. A. Carter

He joins then the United-Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2000 as Head of the International Police Task Force High Commissioner’s cabinet of the high-commissioner; he will take, in particular, the lead of the anti-terrorism cell of Nations United in Sarajevo there and will also work against the Transnational Organized Crime prevention and war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Richard B. Carter

Richard Burrage Carter was born on April 8, 1877, in West Newton, Massachusetts, the son of John W. Carter, the head of Careter's Ink, and Helen (Burrage) Carter, his wife.

Robert G. Carter

He was preparing to enter Phillips Academy when Carter enlisted as a private in the 22nd Massachusetts Infantry at the start of the American Civil War and remained with the Army of the Potomac from August 5, 1862 until October 4, 1864.

Samuel D. Wonders

He was elected president in 1949 after the death of president Richard B. Carter and served until 1955.

Samuel P. Carter

Carter was born in Elizabethton, Tennessee, the eldest son of Alfred Moore Carter, a direct descendant of the early settlers for whom Carter County is named.

Temple, Oliver P. Notable Men of Tennessee, New York: Cosmopolitan Press, 1912, p.

Sarah Mae Flemming

Mr. Wittenberg decided not to handle a second appeal and turned the case over to Thurgood Marshall and Robert Carter of the NAACP.

Sonny's Blues

Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker are mentioned during a conversation between Sonny and his brother.

Steve Carter

Steven A. Carter (born 1959), American author of non-fiction and humor

Steven A. Carter

Men Who Can't Love had its most recent on-screen appearance in the Katherine Heigl/Gerard Butler film The Ugly Truth (July 2009).

T. K. Carter

He is also known for playing slightly nervous characters, such as the rollerskating chef, Nauls, in John Carpenter's The Thing, as well as the unfortunate National Guard, Cribbs, in Walter Hill's Southern Comfort.

Tears on Tape

The album's artwork, created by Daniel P. Carter, consists of a snake, circling the heartagram which is encased in a heptagram, or more specifically the Seal of Babalon.

The Culture of Disbelief

The Culture of Disbelief (ISBN 0-385-47498-9) is a 1994 book by Stephen L. Carter.

Timothy Carter

Timothy J. Carter (1800–1838), United States Representative from Maine

Trane's Blues

It comprises recordings from sessions for Blue Note and United Artists Records as a sideman for Paul Chambers, Sonny Clark, Johnny Griffin, and Cecil Taylor that were issued respectively on their Whims of Chambers, Sonny's Crib, A Blowin' Session, and Hard Driving Jazz albums.

Welcome Back, Carter

Peter then interjects his hatred of PBS, after viewing a nine-part series on traffic signs by director and producer Ken Burns, the fourth of which on the yield sign.

It was watched by 7.02 million viewers, according to Nielsen ratings, despite airing simultaneously with Desperate Housewives on ABC, The Amazing Race on CBS and Sunday Night Football on NBC, and falling only 15% from the previous week's broadcast.


Abubadika Sonny Carson

A black nationalist, he was best known for his autobiography, The Education of Sonny Carson (1972), which was made into a 1974 film and is the father of hip-hop artist Professor X.

Agustín Creevy

Creevy is known as a mobile hooker with some very good ball handling skills for a hooker, his good offloading skills have led him to become called "Sonny Bill" Creevy (after the All Blacks centre Sonny Bill Williams who's trademark is offloading) by some Montpellier fans.

Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311

Former Texas senator John Tower, 65, his daughter Marian, astronaut Manley "Sonny" Carter, and American College of Physicians president-elect Dr. Nicholas Davies, and N.A.T.O. liaison Dr. June T. Amlie, were among the 23 passengers and crew killed.

Bodyguard Kiba

Karate Kiba or Bodyguard Kiba, a 1973 film directed by Tatsuichi Takamori, starring Sonny Chiba

Bullet train

The Bullet Train (Shinkansen Daibakuha), a 1975 Japanese movie starring Sonny Chiba

Carlos Padilla, Sr.

From a famous family of actors and politicians, he is the brother of actor José Padilla, Jr., father to international boxing referee Carlos "Sonny" Padilla, Jr.

Donald McGill

McGill's Kipling joke is used in a 1962 episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, "Pygmalion and Elly", in a scene with Elly May Clampett (Donna Douglas) and Sonny Drysdale (Louis Nye).

East Harlem Purple Gang

In The Godfather movie, Sonny Corleone beat up Carlo on Pleasant Avenue.

Edsel Ford Fong

Fong's was a regular recurring character in Armistead Maupin's series of Tales of the City novels, and was played by Arsenio 'Sonny' Trinidad in the 1993 BBC miniseries.

Flersguterjunge

"Flersguterjunge" contains samples of "Ein Mann Armee" by Bushido, "Komm klar, Spast" by Bushido & Fler (alias Sonny Black & Frank White) and the "Yeah! Woo!" from "Think (About It)" by Lyn Collins

Hally Wood

As a singer she had two solo albums in early 1950s (Stinson "Hally Wood Sings Texas Folksongs"; Elektra "Oh Lovely Appearance of Death"), appeared on several concert/compilation albums, sang in concerts with Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Jean Ritchie, & others in the NYC area, including a concert at Carnegie Hall on Saturday, December 21, 1957 with Sonny Terry and Dave Sears.

Hostages Trial

The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal V, were Charles F. Wennerstrum (presiding judge) from Iowa, George J. Burke from Michigan, and Edward F. Carter from Nebraska.

Howard Thurston

Thurston is mentioned and appears briefly in Glen David Gold's novel Carter Beats the Devil (ISBN 0-7868-8632-3), concerning fellow stage magician Charles J. Carter and the Golden Age of magic in America.

IlyAIMY

I Love You And I Miss You was originally a 4 member musical ensemble that formed in the mid-1990s, the members were rob Hinkal, William Schaff, Carin Wagner (now Sloan) and Sonny Roelle all of whom were students at The Maryland Institute College Of Art at the time and released a two cassette (90 min each) collection of songs and recorded another that was not released.

Jarmo Savolainen

Jarmo Savolainen Quartet & Quintet: True Image (1995; with Dave Liebman and Sonny Heinilä (sax), Tim Hagans (trumpet), Ron McClure (bass), and Billy Hart (drums))

Jimmy Forrest

In his 2000 book, The Devil and Sonny Liston, author Nick Tosches noted that Forrest's music was a favorite of heavyweight boxer Sonny Liston, also from St.Louis, who would listen to "Night Train" and other Forrest music during training sessions and before fights.

Junjun Cabatu

Known by many because of his father Santiago "Sonny" Cabatu, Sr., who is a former PBA player and was the very first draft pick of the league in 1985.

Laclede's Landing, St. Louis

Bobby "Blue" Bland, Henry Townsend, Bo Diddley, Mavis Staples, Johnnie Johnson, Ike Turner, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Fontella Bass, Oliver Sain, Hubert Sumlin, Shemekia Copeland, Little Milton, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Dr. John, Royal Southern Brotherhood, Joe Louis Walker, Roy Gaines, Sonny Landreth, and Ana Popovic!

Miami Vice: The Game

Therefore, the likeness of the narcotics officers Crockett and Tubbs are based on that of Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx, respectively.

Michael Ochs

Interviews with Ochs and his sister Sonny were featured in the film, which focuses both on Phil's life and the turbulent times in which he lived.

Mon Ilagan

It was during this time when Fr Sonny Ramirez, OP, asked Mon Ilagan to work for him in Radio Veritas.

Nathaniel Thayer

For a number of years, Thayer was involved in a dispute with James G. Carter, then-Deacon of Thayer's congregation and later a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, over the latter's refusal to return funds donated toward the establishment of an instructional academy that failed to materialise.

Out Where the Buses Don't Run

It featured guest star Bruce McGill as an eccentric retired police officer attempting to aid Metro-Dade detectives James "Sonny" Crocket and Ricardo Tubbs in the search for a missing drug lord.

Pearl G. Curran

Her song Sonny Boy was transcribed into Braille for the blind during her lifetime, indicating its popularity at the time.

Rebel Records

The label was founded in Mount Rainier, Maryland in 1959 by Dick Freeland, Bill Carroll and Sonny Compton.

Sharks Keep Moving

The first recorded output for Sharks Keep Moving came in the form of a split 7” with fellow Seattle natives The Kentucky Pistol (which featured brothers Sonny and Rocky Votolato, later members of Bugs In Amber and Waxwing, respectively).

She Thinks She Needs Me

"She Thinks She Needs Me" is the title of a song written by Shane Minor, Sonny LeMaire and Clay Mills, and recorded by American country music artist Andy Griggs.

Sonny Boy Williamson

Sonny Boy Williamson I (1914–1948), John Lee Curtis Williamson, "The Original Sonny Boy Williamson", born in Tennessee and associated with Bluebird Records (recordings from 1937 to 1948)

Sonny Everett

Sonny appeared several times on TV's Mike Douglas Show and was featured in a principal acting role in the films Cloud Dancer (1980) starring David Carradine and Oscar-winner Jennifer O'Neill, and stunt performer in Moving Violations (1986) starring Sally Kellerman and Robert Conrad.

Sonny Malone

Sonny Malone is a film editor who has twice won the AVN Award for "Best Editing - Film": in 2005 for The Masseuse and in 2006 for The New Devil in Miss Jones.

Sonny Moorman:Live at the Cincy Blues Fest

Sonny Moorman:Live at the Cincy Blues Fest is a 2006 blues album by Sonny Moorman recorded during the Cincy Blues Fest on July 28, 2006.

Sonny Nevaquaya

Sonny Nevaquaya is a Comanche flute player and maker from Oklahoma.

Sonny White

Ellerton Oswald White (November 11, 1917, Panama City, Panama - April 28, 1971, New York City), better known as Sonny White, was a jazz pianist.

Sunny Side of Life

Sunny Side of Life is a documentary film from 1985 about the musical Carter Family focusing on the children of A.P and Sara who still live in the mountains and are trying to keep the legacy of their ancestors alive, at the Carter Fold near Maces Spring, Virginia.

Terri Lyne Carrington

The album features Nancy Wilson, Les McCann, George Duke, Kirk Whalum, Everette Harp, Christian McBride, Jimmy Haslip, Greg Phillinganes, Robert Irving III, Patrice Rushen, Chuck Loeb, Walter Beasley, Anthony Wilson, Lawrence Fields, Ray Fuller, Dwight Sills, Lori Perry and Chris Walker, with a special appearance by Sonny Carrington.

Virgil Sollozzo

Sollozzo, realizing that Vito's eldest son and Corleone family underboss Sonny (James Caan) would be more receptive to the heroin trade, decides to murder Vito.

Wandering Detective

Wandering Detective: Black Wind in the Harbor, the follow-up to the above film, also directed by Kinji Fukasaku and starring Sonny Chiba.

West Riding of Lindsey

It consisted of the north western part of the county, and included the Isle of Axholme and the Aslacoe, Corringham, Manley, Lawress and Well wapentakes.