LAND OF 1.000 DANCES

Created on 15/01/2005
Latest update on 01/07/2022

Artist: Chris Kenner
Author: Chris Kenner
Label: Instant
Year: 1962

With a snippet from spiritual Children, Go Where I Send Thee in the opening.

Covers:

1963:

Fats Domino

1964:

Rufus Thomas

1965:

Cannibal & The Headhunters [introducing the "na nananana" part]

1965:

Action [produced by George Martin]

1965:

Knickerbockers

1965:

Midniters

1965:

Walker Brothers

1966:

Kingsmen

1966:

Wilson Pickett [n°1 R&B]

1966:

Tom & Jerry & Les Sharks [as Ursula; ode to Ursula Andres]

1966:

Nino Tempo & April Stevens

1966:

Lucky Jones [as De plus en plus fort]

1967:

Young Rascals

1967:

Dick Rivers [as Un air me parle]

1967:

Namelosers [from Sweden]

1970:

Mr. Bloe

1970:

Bill Haley

1973:

Little Richard

1975:

Patti Smith [in Land medley]

1978:

Rezillos

1981:

Ted Nugent

1983:

J. Geils Band

1983:

Ricky Skaggs [as Children Go Where I Send Thee]

1986:

Tina Turner

1992:

Ini Kamoze [Na-nananana job copied in Here Comes The Hotstepper, later also in film Prêt-à-porter]

1993:

Mud Boy & The Neutrons [as Land Of 1000 Shotguns]

2005:

Gun Club

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:

Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)

info@originals.be

No Facebook No Twitter