From '' D'Swooner's Plays R&B Golden Hits ''
Label: Philips -- FS-8019
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Japan
Released: 1968

Tracklist
A1 Hold On I'm Coming
A2 Sunny
A3 Boo-ga-loo Down Broadway
A4 It's A Man's World
A5 Baby Now That I've Found You
A6 Stone Free
A7 Whiter Shade Of Pale
B1 Nobody But Me
B2 My Girl
B3 Knock On Wood
B4 Woman Woman
B5 Fire
B6 Purple Haze
B7 Land Of A Thousand Dances

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"Land of a Thousand Dances" (or "Land of 1000 Dances") is a song written and first recorded by Chris Kenner in 1962.
The song is famous for its "na na na na na" hook, which Cannibal & the Headhunters added in their 1965 version, which reached thirty on the Billboard chart.

The song's best-known version was Wilson Pickett's 1966 recording on his album, which became an R&B #1 and his biggest ever pop hit.
Some releases of the song credit Antoine "Fats" Domino as a co-author of the song with Kenner.
Domino agreed to record the song in exchange for half of the song's royalties.

The "na na na na na" hook happened by accident when Frankie "Cannibal" Garcia, lead singer of Cannibal and the Headhunters, forgot the lyrics.
The melody to this section was also created spontaneously, as it is not in Chris Kenner's original track.

The original Chris Kenner recording mentions 16 dances : the Pony, the Chicken, the Mashed Potato, the Alligator, the Watusi, the Twist, the Fly, the Jerk, the Tango, the Yo-Yo, the Sweet Pea, the Hand jive, the Slop, the Bop, the Fish, and the Popeye.

The lyrics mention many dances, but don't contain the song's actual title. Kenner's original recording included a brief, gospel-influenced, a capella introduction with the words: "Children, go where I send you / (How will you send me?) / I'm gon' send you to that land / the land of a thousand dances."
This eighteen seconds was left off the single release to facilitate radio airplay, and the phrase "Land of 1000 Dances" never appeared in any subsequent recording.

Covers

Major Lance (1963)
Thee Midniters (1965)
The Action (1965)
Johnny Rivers - Meanwhile Back at the Whisky à Go Go (1965)
Bill Haley & His Comets (1966)
Danny & The Memories (1965--66, Scopitone Video Clip)
The Kingsmen - Up and Away (1966)
Nino Tempo & April Stevens (1966, Scopitone Video Clip)
Otis Redding (1966); also live on a dedicated Ready Steady Go! edition (1966) - Otis Redding Special
The Young Rascals - Collections (1967)
Erkin Koray (in Turkish language)
The Chopsticks -The Chopsticks．Sandra And Amina (1970)
Ike & Tina Turner - Live in Paris (1971); Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! (40th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set) (2009)
Patti Smith -- Horses (1975)
Ted Nugent -- Intensities in 10 Cities (1981)
Renato Zero - Via Tagliamento 1965/1970 (1982)
The J. Geils Band - Showtime! (1982)
Joan Baez (1983)
World Wrestling Federation -- The Wrestling Album (1985)
Tina Turner -- Tina Live in Europe (1988)
Rockapella - Lucky Seven (Japan release) (1996)
Vinnie Jones -- Respect (2002)
Barón Rojo -- Desde Barón a Bilbao (2007)
Broken Social Scene
Jimmy Barnes
Claus Ogerman
Guy (their cover was featured in the film FernGully: The Last Rainforest)
Leningrad Cowboys
The Gories
The Mummies
The Radiators (American band)
The Residents
The Rezillos
Little Richard
Sam & Dave
The Walker Brothers
Chants R&B - Stage Door Witchdoctors
Die Toten Hosen
Lixx
Roy Orbison
Namelosers
Lorena Gómez
The Mean Mean Men (2009)
Cuisillos de Arturo Macías (As La hora del bien) (1993)
The Dynamics
Jessica Mauboy

Derivative works

Philippines variety show Eat Bulaga! had a song called "Kagat Labi", and it used the tune of this song.

The continuing "na" sequence was incorporated into the 1995 dancehall song "Here Comes the Hotstepper" by Ini Kamoze.

The B-52's mock-60s-sounding 1979 song, "Dance This Mess Around", opens its list of dances done at parties with the line, "They do all 16 dances!", an allusion to the number of dances mentioned in this song.

The Clash's 1985 single, "This is England", featured the line "Land of a Thousand Dances"

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