Major Lance's Greatest Hits Recorded Live at the Torch

Major Lance's Greatest Hits Recorded Live at the Torch
Live album by Major Lance
Released 1973
Recorded Stoke-on Trent 1972
Genre Soul
Length
Label Contempo
COLP1001
Producer Major 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)

Major Lance's Greatest Hits Recorded Live at the Torch is an album by soul artist Major Lance released in 1973 on the Contempo label.[1] It was recorded live in front of a sell-out audience [2] at the Torch, Tunstall, Stoke-On-Trent, on 9 December 1972 and has been described as "perhaps the best Northern soul album ever made",[3] and "a one-off gig when everything came together in perfect harmony".[2]

Track listing

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  

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[4]

References

  1. "Major Lance's Greatest Hits Recorded Live At The Torch". www.discogs.com.com. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
  2. 1 2 Nowell, David (1999). Too Darn Soulful. London N7 9NT: Robson Books Ltd. pp. 79–83. ISBN 1-86105-270-7.
  3. Biography at The Northern Soul Nightshift
  4. "Allmusic review". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
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