Domino agreed, with the proviso that he receive half the publishing rights and be listed as co-writer of the song. That ought to get the song some attention. So, he approached Fats Domino, hoping to persuade him to record it. But Kenner still liked the song and was determined to take it a little further. The name of the place is the Land of a Thousand Dances.' It failed to chart it was a bomb. The original introduction by Chris Kenner goes like this: 'I'm gonna take you, baby, I'm gonna take you to a place. Nowhere in the lyrics is there any mention of a Land of 1,000 Dances, although many different dances are mentioned in the lyrics. That introduction, however, explains the title of the song. It is interesting to note that in the popular version of this song Kenner's original introduction has been eliminated. Kenner took the song to noted New Orleans record producer Allen Toussaint and recorded it in 1962. Kenner was inspired by an old spiritual that was sung in the South named 'Children Go Where I Send Thee.' It is a song where the narrator enumerates all the places where he can 'send thee:' 'Children go where I send thee, how shall I send thee. The song made it into the top ten nationally.

In 1961 he had written and recorded I Like It Like That, Part 1.

Following the lead of Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and others who had come before him, Kenner was a hard-working, frenetic singer, songwriter and performer. In 1962 songwriter/performer Chris Kenner decided to write his own dance song. Following the success of Chubby Checker's The Twist, which had reached the number one spot in the charts on two different occasions, there was a proliferation of dance songs: the Locomotion, the Pony, the Mashed Potatoes and others. In the early 60's dance songs were very popular in rock-and-roll. Land Of 1000 Dances is a song from the Sixties that has an interesting history and has been recorded by a variety of different artists. Land Of 1000 Dances Page Land Of 1000 Dances

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