Double Cookin' - Classic Northern Soul Instrumentals - VA - Kent Records CD

Double Cookin' - Classic Northern Soul Instrumentals

Various Artists 

CDKEND 336

Kent Records 

Format: Audio CD

Release Date 2th March 2010

2010 saw Kent release a collection of Northern Soul Instrumentals tracks, a mix of classics and unreleased studio cuts..

A snippet of the release notes from Tony Rounce follows below. 

Double Cookin’” brings together two dozen wordless wonders, the majority of which have proven their worth time and again as a means of filling a Northern Soul dance floor quickly. The vast majority of the titles on show will need not one word of introduction to the faithful. Indeed the popularity of some, such as the offerings of Hugo Montenegro and Bill Black’s Combo, date back to the very early days of the Northern Scene. For others, memories of the Mecca, Torch or Catacombs will be conjured up as soon as the intros to ‘Cigarette Ashes’, ‘Tracks To Your Mind’ and ‘Hey America’ come blasting through the speakers. Original and born again Wiganites will get their kicks out on the floor to our title track, ‘The Spy’ and the instrumentals to ‘Before It’s Too Late’, ‘The Same Old Thing’, ‘Turn Back The Hands Of Time’ and ‘Lay This Burden Down’ – all four of which were originally stripped of their vocals for play at the Casino. We’ve even thrown in a couple of newly-mixed instrumentals of proven vocal favourites that are exclusive to this CD, and that would have torn any dancefloor up had they been around during the instro’s peak years of popularity.

Tracks

Side 1
01   Double Cookin' - The Checkerboard Squares
02   Make Me Yours - Arthur Wright & His Orchestra
03   Festival Time - The San Remo Golden Strings
04   Little Queenie - Bill Black's Combo
05   Tracks To Your Mind - The Sounds Of Lane
06   The Champion Pt 1 - Willie Mitchell
07   Lay This Burden Down - Arthur Wright & His Orchestra
08   Cigarette Ashes - Jimmy Conwell
09   Sliced Tomatoes - Just Brothers
10   If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time - Arthur Wright & His Orchestra
11   The Spy - The Guys From U.N.C.L.E.
12   Sherry - Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra
13   Before It's Too Late - Arthur Wright & His Orchestra
14   Gone With The Wind Is My Love (Instrumental) - The Doré Strings
15   Marching (Instrumental) - The Camp
16   Thumb A Ride - Earl Wright & His Orchestra
17   Danse A La Musique - The French Fries
18   The Same Old Thing - The Fred Smith Orchestra
19   Jerk Baby Jerk - Smoky & The Fabulous Blades
20   Stirrin' Up Some Soul - The Mar-Ketts
21   Right On - Al De Lory & Mandingo
22   Hey America (Sing-Along) - James Brown
23   A House For Sale - The Muscle Shoals Swampers
24   California Montage - Young-Holt Unlimited

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