Double Cookin / Various Double Cookin / Various CD

2010 release, Kent Record's first ever all-instrumental collection. Double Cookin' brings together some of the most popular "wordless wonders" to have livened up Northern Soul dance floors in the past 40+ years. Also included are new stereo versions, taken from original master tapes, of several tracks that were first refashioned as instrumentals in the mid-'70s by Simon Soussan and released variously as Arthur Wright And His Orchestra, the Fred Smith Orchestra and so on. 24 tracks.

1. Double Cookin' (Strings a Go-Go) - the Checkerboard Squares 2. Make Me Yours - Arthur Wright ; His Orchestra 3. Festival Time - the San Remo Golden Strings 4. Little Queenie - Bill Black's Combo 5. Tracks to Your Mind - the Sounds of Lane 6. The Champion PT 1 - Willie Mitchell 7. Lay This Burden Down - Arthur Wright ; His Orchestra 8. Cigarette Ashes - Jimmy Conwell 9. 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 - the Dore 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. House for Sale - the Muscle Shoals Swampers 24. California Montage - Young-Holt Unlimited