Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Musical Interlude: Land of 1000 Dances (1965)

 This is where Vince McMahon got the idea to cover "Land of 1000 Dances" in 1985.

20 years earlier, Cannibal & the Headhunters, out of Los Angeles, recorded "Land", which was co-written & originally recorded by Chris Kenner 3 years earlier, but missed the top 40. Not all of the lyrics made it into Wilson Pickett's cover a few months later, and Pickett's version is considered the definitive version.


Cannibal was never heard from again, unfortunately.

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