{"id":2276,"date":"2021-10-23T02:48:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T02:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2276"},"modified":"2021-10-23T02:48:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T02:48:12","slug":"the-abyssinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=2276","title":{"rendered":"The Abyssinians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vocal trio was originally formed in 1968 by Bernard Collins and Donald Manning.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Larkin_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>Their first song was &#8220;<a title=\"Satta Massagana\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satta_Massagana\">Satta Massagana<\/a>&#8220;, which was strongly influenced by Carlton Manning&#8217;s &#8220;Happy Land&#8221;. &#8220;Satta Massagana&#8221; is a Rastafarian hymn sung partly in the\u00a0<a title=\"Ethiopia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethiopia\">Ethiopian<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Amharic\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amharic\">Amharic<\/a>\u00a0language. They recruited a third vocalist, who was still at school and often unable to attend rehearsals; he was soon replaced by Donald&#8217;s brother Lynford Manning, who had previously been a member of their brother Carlton Manning&#8217;s group\u00a0<a title=\"Carlton and The Shoes\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carlton_and_The_Shoes\">Carlton and The Shoes<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Thompson_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Abyssinians\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vocal trio was originally formed in 1968 by Bernard Collins and Donald Manning.Their first song was &#8220;Satta Massagana&#8220;, which was strongly influenced by Carlton Manning&#8217;s &#8220;Happy Land&#8221;. &#8220;Satta Massagana&#8221; is a Rastafarian hymn sung partly in the\u00a0Ethiopian\u00a0Amharic\u00a0language. They recruited a third vocalist, who was still at school and often unable to attend rehearsals; he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-2276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reggae-icons","tag-facts"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions\/2278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}