Manson Grant
Another Great Album
Manson started piano
lessons at the age of eight. Three years later he won his first award at the
Caithness Music Festival for singing. Leaving school, Manson joined a local band
playing weekends while working maintaining the '9-to-5'. Manson joined the
Dynamos Showband at the age of 20 to go professional. At this time all the band
members, six in total, were giving up their daily jobs to make a living out of
music. During the next 7 years the band travelled all over Scotlandand England.
They recorded their first album ‘The Two Sides of the Dynamos Showband’ for
Grampian Records in Wick. Around 1980, now a 3-piece - "Manson Grant and the
Dynamos", saw Manson playing trumpet. Recording albums became an annual event,
16 in total. The second album featuring the ‘Keys in the Mailbox’ became the
most requested album on BBC Radio Scotland, the BBC recognised this with a
trophy - this accolade repeated the following year. By now the band achieved
recognition over the whole UK in country music clubs, theatres etc. winning many
awards from various clubs and magazines. Manson has supported acts such as Hank
Locklin, Porter Wagoner, Les Dennis,
Wendy
Richards and others and in Nashville Manson has shared the stage with
Charlie Daniels and
Jordanaires to name but a few.
- I’ve Got A Tiger By The Tail
- Together Again
- Second Fiddle
- My Heart Skips A Beat
- Made In Japan
- Love’s Gonna Live Here
- We Were Made For Each Other
- Cinderella
- Act Naturally
- Crying Time
- Excuse Me (I Think I’ve Got A Heartache)
- Truck Driving Man
- Let The World Keep On Turning
- Open Up Your Heart