Major Lance's Greatest Hits Recorded Live at the Torch

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Major Lance's Greatest Hits Recorded Live at the Torch
Live album by
Released1973
RecordedStoke-on Trent 1972
GenreSoul
LabelContempo
COLP1001
ProducerMajor Lance
Major Lance chronology
Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um - The Best of Major Lance
(1964)
Major Lance's Greatest Hits Recorded Live at the Torch
(1973)
Now Arriving
(1978)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]

Major Lance's Greatest Hits Recorded Live at the Torch is an album by the soul artist Major Lance, released in 1973 on Contempo Records. It was recorded live in front of a sell-out audience [3] at the Torch, Tunstall, Stoke-On-Trent, on 9 December 1972 and has been described as "perhaps the best Northern soul album ever made",[4] and "a one-off gig when everything came together in perfect harmony".[3]

Track listing[edit]

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Hey, Hey"Major Lance 
2."I Wanna Make Up, (Before We Break Up)"Arthur Snyder 
3."My Girl"Smokey Robinson, Ronald White 
4."Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um"Curtis Mayfield 
5."The Beat"Dan Penn, Del Sharh, Ricky Castel, Roscoe Johnston 
6."Ain't No Soul (Left in These Old Shoes)"Arthur Resnick, Joey Levine 
7."Investigate"Cliff Thomas, Edward Thomas 
8."Monkey Time"Curtis Mayfield 

References[edit]

  1. ^ "AllMusic review". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5. MUZE. p. 79.
  3. ^ a b Nowell, David (1999). Too Darn Soulful. London N7 9NT: Robson Books Ltd. pp. 79–83. ISBN 1-86105-270-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  4. ^ Biography at The Northern Soul Nightshift