Track Listings

1	Land of 1000 Dances
2	Come Back and See
3	How Far
4	Time
5	Come and See About Me
6	Packing Up
7	Something You Got
8	I Like It Like That PT 1
9	I Like It Like That PT 2
10	Go Thru Life
11	A Very True Story
12	That's My Girl
13	Johnny Little
14	What's Wrong with Life
15	Never Reach Perfection
16	Anybody Here Seen My Baby
17	Cinderella
18	All Night Rambler PTS 1 & 2
19	Shoo Rah
20	Stetch My Hands to You
21	Fumigate Funky Broadway
22	Wind the Clock
23	Mini Skirts and Soul
24	Sad Mistake
25	Grandma's House
26	Don't Let Her Pin That Charge
27	Sick and Tired
28	Nothing Will Keep Me from You
29	Rocket to the Moon
30	Mini Skirts and Soul
31	Sad Mistake

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2012 collection. The song 'Land of 1000 Dances' has become a 'standard' across various music boundaries over the decades, with Wilson Pickett's high-energy smash hit version from 1966 perhaps best known, but the original version was by Chris Kenner from New Orleans, who adapted Gospel song 'Children Go Where I Send You' into an ear-catching, rhythmic anthem to score a local hit in 1962 on Instant Records. Kenner previously charted in 1961 with 'I Like It Like That Pt. 1 (Instant)', covered for international success by UK group the Dave Clark Five in 1965, and some four years earlier with his original version of 'Sick and Tired' on Imperial, revived in 1958 by label-mate Fats Domino. The success of 'Land of 1000 Dances' prompted Atlantic Records to take interest and release a now very collectable LP gathering together a selection of Kenner's Instant singles, with production by Allen Toussaint. Shout Records is pleased to present a re-issue of this hard-to-find item.

Product details

Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.92 x 5.59 x 0.51 inches; 3.32 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Shout
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ August 31, 2012
Label ‏ : ‎ Shout
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0093N2XEG
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Milton A. Dugger Jr.

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Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2016

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As reviewed and advertised; just a slow delivery but I have it now!!!

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2015

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if you like new orleans r&b this is the real deal.

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George O'Leary

Now The Best Chris Kenner Compilation Available

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2013

First of all, the listing of the contents of this CD above are wrong. The correct list of 31 tracks (not 29) also showing the time lengths, is shown in the Comments below. Having corrected that, even with a key missing side, let me say that this becomes the single best compilation covering R&B singer/songwriter Chris Kenner (born in Kenner, Louisiana on Christmas Day 1929) on the market, with very good sound reproduction and interesting and informative liner notes by Clive Richardson.

Kenner may have had what can best be described as a "modest" career when you look at it solely in terms of nationally-charting singles, posting just three over a span of six years. But two of those, which he wrote or co-wrote, have become much-covered Oldies standards as have a few others of his compositions. His first record, both sides of which he wrote, came out in 1956 for the New York City-based Baton Records with the rocking Grandma's House (enhanced by a great unidentified piano solo) on Baton 220 b/w with an eerily predictive (and bluesy) Don't Let Her Pin That Charge On Me since, some 12 years later, he would be convicted of the statutory rape of a minor and sentenced to 3 years in Angola Prison in Louisiana. Eight years after that, on January 28. 1976, he would die at age 46 following a heart attack.

But before all that went down, he next turned up at Imperial Records in 1958 where he had the first crack at Dave Bartholomew's Sick And Tired, taking it to # 13 R&B in August 1957 b/w Nothing Will Keep Me From You (unfortunately one of his songs omitted here despoite it being the B-side of one of his three hits) on Imperial 5448. A year later, Fats Domino's cover would peak at # 14 R&B but also cross over to the more lucrative Billboard Pop Top 100 at # 22 on Imperial 5515. However, after the 1958 follow-up Will You Be Mine?/I Have News For You (neither side included) went nowhere on Imperial 5488, he and Imperial parted ways.

In 1961 he turned up at Barry DeVorzon's Valiant Records where he recorded one of his two most enduring and covered sides, I Like It Like That, on Valiant 3229 and with the label chaged to the new name Instant Records (3229) in mid-pressing, Part 1 reached # 2 on both the Billboard Pop Hot 100 and R&B charts in June/July b/w Part 2. That same year The Bobbettes would come up with the same tune in the form on an "answer" song called I Don't Like It Like Hta, taking it to # 72 Hot 100 on Gone, in 1965 The Dave Clark Five would have a # 7 Hot 100 with it for Epic, and in 1975 a cover by Loggins & Messina would re4ach # 84 for Columbia.

His third and final charting single, and his most covered, was Land Of 1000 Dances which not only staggered to a mediocre # 77 Hot 100 in July 1963 b/w That's My Girl on Instant 3252, but it inexplicably made no impact whatsoever on the R&B charts! In 1965, Cannibal & The Headhunters would do considerably better taking their rendition to # 30 Hot 100 while Thee Midnighters would see theirs go to # 67 Hot 100. The best version came from Wilson Pickett in 1966 when it peaked at # 1 R&B/# 6 Hot 100. Other charted versions include the 1969 # 95 by Electric Indian, and the 1983 # 60 by The J. Geils Band.

The rest of his singles for Instant are also shown in the Comment with an asterisk (*) preceding those sides NOT included here. One of the sides you do get, his composition Something You Got, may not have charted for Chris, but 1964 covers by Alvin Robinson (# 52 Hot 100) and The Ramsey Lewis Trio (# 63 Hot 100) did, also keeping in mind that Billboard had suspended the R&B charts from late 1963 and through all of 1964, when elements of the British Invasion ruled the upper regions of the Hot 100. In early 1965, a cover by Chuck Jackson & Maxine Brown made it to # 10 R&B and # 55 Hot 100.

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デタコイズ

踊れる曲を歌う踊れない歌手のニューオーリンズ楽曲集

Reviewed in Japan on February 12, 2013

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　ウィルソン・ピケットによるヒットで有名な「ダンス天国」の原作者で、自らもI Like It Like That で一発当てたニューオーリンズの歌手、クリス・ケナーの50年代から60年代末にかけて録音した曲を集めたものです。

　アラン・トゥーサンが大きく関わった60年代のはじめのインスタント時代の曲を集めてアトランティックで66年に発売されたアルバム Land of 1000 Dances (「ダンス天国」）がこの盤の最初の12曲を曲順通りに占めています。今回は彼のベストで公式では初めて50年代や小レーベルでの活動も一緒に収めていて、彼のシングルデビューの曲やファッツ・ドミノでヒットしたデイヴ・バーソロミューのバンドのバックがご機嫌な Sick and Tired なども聞くことができます。アルバムの「ダンス天国」はレイ・チャールズを思い起こさせるコール・アンド・レスポンスにトゥーサン流のアレンジを施したものが多く、トゥーサンが抜けた直後のインスタント録音を含めてそののどかな感じがクリス・ケナーの少しハスキーな声にしっくりします。

　また彼のベストでは人となりを記して今までで一番充実したライナーノーツが書かれていて、「ダンス天国」に最初に「ナーナナナナ」をつけたと思われるカニバル＆ザ・ヘッドハンターズのことや、ファッツ・ドミノとの因縁、彼のもう一つの名曲 Something You Got のニューオーリンズ内外での広がりなども窺えます。本人は踊れないのにダンス曲が多く、私生活も声質もブルースがふさわしいものの、発売当初はカットされた「ダンス天国」のイントロにも現れているゴスペルのルーツも入り交じったクリス・ケナーの人生にも思いが馳せます。

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Corbin Gérard

un grand interprète trop méconnu

Reviewed in France on November 21, 2013

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créateur d'au moins deux succès mondiaux -land of thousand dances et I like it like that - Chris Kenner fait partie de la grande famille de la soul funky de la Nouvelle Orleans.
Moins connu et célébré que Lee Dorsey, il est pourtant digne représentant de cette musique vraiment festive.
redécouvrez cet artiste ressuscité grâce à cette compilation géniale !

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saynomore

at last

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 20, 2013

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I love it like that.i've been after this cd (title track) for sometime so am well happy.blame the dfs advert.

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