Twisted Wheel - Land Of A Thousand Dances

"The dancing is without a doubt the highest and finest I have ever seen outside of the USA – in fact I never thought I'd live to see the day where people could so relate the rhythmic content of soul music to bodily movement to such a skilled degree in these rigid and armoured Isles!" DAVE GODIN

When Dave Godin from Soul City Records, London, visited the Twisted Wheel in January 1970 he was blown away, mesmerised, by the music, the dancing and the togetherness of the emerging Northern Soul scene. It was unique, not only to the tiny basement club, but to the North. It was something that the swinging capital didn’t have and didn’t understand. This was Soul and solidarity – the yet-to-be-coined Northern Soul –and it belonged to the North. 

This compilation celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the “cellar full-of-soul” years at the famed Whitworth Street location, September 1965 – February 1971. The groundbreaking years that saw the Wheel’s playlist move from Blues and R&B to the upbeat sound of young America, or as Blues & Soul journalist Dave Godin put it “the groove up North”. It was these pivotal years and these dance tracks that lit the Northern Soul torch.

TRACKLIST LP

SIDE A

1. JACKIE LEE - The Duck
2. THE OLYMPICS - Baby, Do The Philly Dog
3. ROBERT PARKER - Lets Go Baby (Where The Action Is)
4. THE ESQUIRES - And Get Away    
5. THE SHARPEES - Tired of Being Lonely    
6. THE O'KAYSIONS - Girl Watcher
7. GENE CHANDLER - Nothing Can Stop Me
8. THE MOOD-MOSAIC - A Touch Of Velvet - A Sting Of Brass

SIDE B

1. BOBBY WELLS - Let's Copp A Groove
2. THE KELLY BROTHERS - Love Time
3. CHRIS FARLOWE - Looking for You
4. THE DU-ETTES - Every Beat Of My Heart
5. JIMMY ROBINS - I Can't Please You
6. CHRIS KENNER - Land of 1,000 Dances
7. LITTLE HANK - Mister Bang Bang Man
8. THE WATTS 103RD STREET RHYTHM BAND -Spreadin' Honey

TRACKLIST EXPANDED CD

1. JACKIE LEE - The Duck
2. THE WHSIPERS - Doctor Love
3. THE OLYMPICS - Baby, Do The Philly Dog
4. ROBERT PARKER - Let's Go Baby (Where the Action Is)
5. THE ESQUIRES - And Get Away
6. THE SHARPEES - Tired of Being Lonely
7. THE O'KAYSIONS - Girl Watcher
8. GENE CHANDLER - Nothing Can Stop Me
9. THE MOOD-MOSAIC - A Touch Of Velvet – A Sting Of Brass
10. BOBBY WELLS - Let's Copp A Groove
11. THE KELLY BROTHERS - Love Time
12. THE C.O.D.’s - Michael
13. EARL HARRISON - Humphrey Stomp
14. CHRIS FARLOWE - Looking for You
15. THE DU-ETTES - Every Beat Of My Heart
16. JIMMY ROBINS - I Can't Please You
17. CHRIS KENNER - Land of 1,000 Dances
18. BOB & EARL - Harelm Shuffle
19. LITTLE HANK - Mister Bang Bang Man
20. ROUND ROBIN - Kick That Little Foot Sally Ann
21. THE WATTS 103RD STREET RHYTHM BAND - Spreadin' Honey