What Is The Name Of This Song And The Singer

[mr_june]

I only know a few words from the song but It's a guy singing and you can tell that he has a country accent by the way he pronounces children as chilrun. Here goes:

Come on children, I want to show
This little place, across the track
The name of this place is I like it like that
The name of this dance is the ?????

I don't think this song was obscure back in the day but even so I haven't heard it since the time it was on the air waves.

Thanks,

[jillfoster]

Are you talking about Chris Kenner?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVJZKb9SCLA

[mr_june]

Thanks Jill, that's another one that I haven't hear in years but it's not the one.

[milven]

Could it be another one by Chris Jenner called Land of 1000 Dances? Fats Domino and Roy Orbison also recorded it.

[milven]

I just found the lyrics on line and it has some of the lyrics you mentioned

Chris Kenner — Land Of 1000 Dances
Children, go where I send you
[[How will you send me)
I'm gonna send you to that land
The land of a thousand dances

You gotta know how to pony
Like boney maronie
You gotta know how to twist
Stroll like this

Mashed potato
Do the alligator
Twist the twister
Like little sister

Then you get your ya yo
Say, hey, let's go, go
Get out on your knees
Do the sweet peas

Roll over on your back
Say I like it like that
Do the watusi
Do the watusi

Can you do the fly
With a hand jive
Can you do the slot
The chicken in the pot

Can you do the fish
Slow, slow twist
Can you do the flow
Got to move so low

Can you do the tango
It takes two to tango

Bye bye, children
Bye bye, children
Bye bye, children
Come on, children

I wanna show you
This little place
Across the track
The name of this place
Is I like it like that

The name of band
The Twistolettes

Come on, children
I wanna show you
I wanna show you
I wanna show you
Come on, children

[milven]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDxfCywWgaE

[mr_june]

That's it Milven and thanks a lot. Jill thanks for being warm! Haven't heard this in many a year and it still sounds good. It's a good dance song and you gotta love the background singers [[lol).

[Soul Sister]

Wilson Pickett did it too.
That's the version your thinking of [[?).


S.S.
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[tamla617]

The wicked pickett's 1000 dances is the only version I ever heard before this thread.

[roger]

The wicked pickett's 1000 dances is the only version I ever heard before this thread.

It sounds like you have some catching up to do here then Tamla617 as back in the 1960s there were no less than FIVE versions of this tune that made the U.S. Billboard Hot-100. :)

Apart from the original by CHRIS KENNER [[which got to #77 in 1963) there was ...

CANNIBAL & THE HEADHUNTERS [[#30 in 1965) ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlTPFERD8zs

THE THREE MIDNIGHTERS [[#67 in 1965) ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md0WsKC-IvU

WILSON PICKETT [[#6 in 1966 and also charted here in the U.K. of course) ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mz_EXHKGHs

And an instrumental by ELECTRIC INDIAN [[basically the philly session musicians who later became MFSB) [[#95 in 1969) ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6PYK76fJ30

There were also versions by RUFUS THOMAS [[can't find it on youtube unfortunately) ..

ROUND ROBIN ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D_0qZOwpiA

And a very Motownesque version by JACKIE LEE ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnAIgSwabDM

It seems that the na-na-na-na bits first came in with the version by CANNIBAL & THE HEADHUNTERS in 1965, they had seen RUFUS THOMAS perform the song in concert and wanted to record their own version but they had forgotten some of the lyrics ... or at least that is according to the booklet notes for this CD ..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Land-1000-Dances-Vol-1-Compilation/dp/tracks/B00000I7WV/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1

:)

Roger

[Soul Sister]

WILSON PICKETT had the big hit on "R & B stations" in N.Y.-N.J. area in 1966 and I think it may have even crossed over.

S.S.
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[mr_june]

I'll have to check the other versions out but I like the original better than Pickett's version. It's got a steady dance groove going on big time. One of those songs you can't sit still to.