Cannibal and the Headhunters

Land Of 1000 Dances

Category:

Music

Tags:

• 1960s
• beat
• soul
• garage
• nuggets

[dedebelle]

Goodbye Scar! You're not forgotten. And seriously, this is THE version of Land of a 1000 Dances.

[MrRonnieG]

Dude! I graduated from Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe Springs, California on 16 June 1965 and I can remember crusing Bob's Big Boy, on Whittier Blvd., in Whittier, California in my 1957 Chevy and my punkass AM radio was playing so loud I thought the windshield would crack! But it was such a fun time to be young and alive. The music, the friends, the times ~ it was all such an experience.

[57highland]

@qui164 If Frankie added the "nah nah" (even accidentally), he should get co-writing credit.

[57highland]

@jazzdad47 I wonder if Paul McCartney got the idea for the "Nah Nah's" at the end of "Hey Jude" from this song.

[57highland]

@Robert0087able I thought you were gonna say because it got wet and moldy in the storage space. I'll give my stuff away before I ever use one of those things again.

[jazzdad47]

These guys opened for the Beatles at Metropolitan Stadium in Minneapolis in July of 1965. I was there. Came across some of them in the 90's when "The Legends Of Rock and Roll" performed at our school fundraiser.

[Robert0087able]

I once found a unopened copy of this album in a used records store only to lose it cause I didn't pay my storage rent damnnnnnnnnnnnn.

[TL250Rider]

Great ole East Los Angeles Rock N Roll Thank you Richard Lopez

Thank you very much

[ActionReplayPerson]

I've been searching for this song for a long time. A little less for me to worry about in my life.

[MaceMn]

If this tune doesn't make you move see your doctor immediately!

[mayej]

Around 1964, a Los Angeles group called Bobby and the Classics brought in a new lead singer named Frankie Garcia who had earned the nickname "Cannibal" after he had bitten someone during a street fight in his younger days. After changing their name to Cannibal and the Headhunters, the group would go on to score a US Top 30 hit with "Land Of 1000 Dances".

[CherzieBear]

hey phonetrick, I can dig it! I played this tune on+on! It's such a bummer to hear a member of one of your lotsa-listened-to groups died. God Bless Richard.