31-525: Twisted Wheel may refer to: Twisted Wheel Club , a nightclub in Manchester, England Twisted Wheel (band) , an indie rock band from Saddleworth, Greater Manchester, England Twisted Wheel (album) , 2009 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Twisted Wheel . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
62-618: A B-side , Leka and DeCarlo resurrected an old song from their days as the Glenwoods, "Kiss Him Goodbye", with their old bandmate, Frashuer. With DeCarlo as lead vocalist, they recorded the song in one session. Instead of using a full band, Leka played keyboards and had engineer Warren Dewey splice together a drum track from one of DeCarlo's four singles and a conga drum solo by Ange DiGeronimo recorded in Leka's Bridgeport, Connecticut, studio for an entirely different session. "I said we should put
93-551: A chorus to it (to make it longer)", Leka told Fred Bronson in The Billboard Book of Number One Hits . "I started writing while I was sitting at the piano going 'na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na'... Everything was 'na na' when you didn't have a lyric." Gary added "hey hey". "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" reached number one in the United States for two weeks, on December 6 1969, displacing " Come Together " by
124-424: Is eclipsed by that of the nearby Wigan Casino . The Twisted Wheel was reopened in the 1970s as a fully licensed and expanded venue by Pete Roberts. It enjoyed capacity attendance for its Sunday afternoon sessions, alongside which were all-nighters and Friday evening sessions. From 2002, nostalgia soul nights were held in the original Whitworth Street location on the final Friday of every month. These nights featured
155-529: Is featured prominently throughout the 2000 biographical sports film Remember the Titans , which is based on the true story of the 1971 T. C. Williams High School football team from Alexandria, Virginia. This song was one of 164 included on the list of songs which were temporarily banned from public radio airplay by Clear Channel after 9/11 . On January 23, 2006, Paul Martin was defeated by Stephen Harper as Prime Minister of Canada. Martin had acceded to
186-682: The 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil , as recorded for the soundtrack One Love, One Rhythm – The 2014 FIFA World Cup Official Album . On May 4, 2017, after the House of Representatives voted to pass the American Health Care Act which partially repealed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , Democratic representatives chanted "Na na na na, hey hey, goodbye" to Republican representatives, implying that in voting for
217-480: The Beatles . It was Billboard ' s final multi-week number 1 hit of the 1960s and also peaked at number twenty on the soul chart. In Canada, the song reached number six. By the beginning of the 21st century, sales of "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" had exceeded 6.5 million records, attaining multi-platinum record status. Jeronimo, a German hard rock band of the early 1970s from Frankfurt am Main. The band
248-587: The UK singles chart , and number 38 in Australia on the Kent Music Report chart. UK: London Records NANA 4; USA: London Records 810 115-7 London Records NANX 4 The music video directed by Keith McMillan features the band playing in a school playground and then being made to move by a group of men. They then decide to join a boxing club so the video features them singing the song whilst boxing. By
279-527: The Bandwagon , and Inez and Charlie Foxx were among the many musicians to squeeze onto the tiny stage. Soul fans travelled from all over the United Kingdom for the all-nighters; some by car, most by train, coach or bus. Singer Chris Rea on his album Deltics commemorates the club in the song "Twisted Wheel". Rea is said to have written this song because of his chagrin at being too young to go on
310-489: The Brazennose St. venue was 11 September 1965 with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (featuring Eric Clapton ) headlining. The club, along with Roger Eagle as DJ, then re-located to 6 Whitworth Street opening on Saturday 18 September with The Spencer Davis Group (featuring Steve Winwood ) as headliners. This venue was the mostly soul-oriented club with resident Saturday "All Niter" DJ Bob Dee compiling and supervising
341-540: The Canadian R&;B/funk band Wayne McGhie and the Sounds of Joy had no chart success on its own, but has been sampled in numerous hip hop recordings. When the band's long-forgotten album was reissued in 2004, Canadian music critic Bill Reynolds wrote that their cover was so good it should be used at sporting events instead of Steam's original. In 1977, Chicago White Sox organist Nancy Faust began playing
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#1732772840945372-614: The Citations, and finally, the Chateaus, of which Leka was the piano player. The group disbanded when Leka talked Frashuer into going into New York City with him to write and possibly produce. In 1969, DeCarlo (using the professional name Garrett Scott) recorded four songs at Mercury Records in New York with Leka as producer. The singles impressed the company's executives, who wanted to issue all of them as A-side singles . In need of
403-482: The Twisted Wheel Club / Basement 66 operates out of AREA on Manchester's Sackville Street. 53°28′38″N 2°13′58″W / 53.47734°N 2.23279°W / 53.47734; -2.23279 Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye " Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye " is a 1969 song written and recorded by Paul Leka , Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer, attributed to a then-fictitious band Steam . It
434-519: The US, but was a minor success in Germany and New Zealand. In February 1983, UK girl group Bananarama released the song as a single from their album Deep Sea Skiving . This version became a top ten hit in the United Kingdom (number 5), but only a minor hit in the US (Billboard number 101) later that year. This was the fifth single released from their first album in 1983. It peaked at number five in
465-516: The accepted term for this genre and subculture . The club shut down in early 1971 because of a bylaw which prevented premises from staying open more than two hours into the following day. The closure of The Twisted Wheel gave the Golden Torch its opportunity to take the Northern soul crown for the next few years, until it too was shut down due to local council opposition. Today its legacy
496-685: The bill, they would lose their House seats in the next election . DeCarlo was happy to hear of the song getting renewed exposure, but said he opposed Obamacare. It was not the first time the song had been sung in Congress; in 1993, after Democrats voted for then-President Bill Clinton's tax bill, House Republicans sang "Goodbye". In January 2019, GMC launched an advertising campaign for its 2019 Sierra 1500 pickup truck, focusing on GMC's new MultiPro tailgate feature. The commercial shows owners of competing pickups carrying tailgates from those trucks and singing "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" while heading to
527-680: The early session playlist. Allnight DJ, Brian "45" Philips introduced - Jerry Cook - "I Hurt on the Other Side"; Dobie Gray - " Out on the Floor "; The Artistics - "This Heart of Mine"; Leon Haywood - "Baby Reconsider", Earl Van Dyke - "6 by 6" and U.S releases on Ric-Tic , Brunswick , Okeh and other obscure labels. Each week at 2:00 am Soul artists performed live at the club. Junior Walker , Edwin Starr , Oscar Toney Jr., Marv Johnson , Mary Wells , Ike and Tina Turner , Johnny Johnson and
558-814: The end of the video they return to the playground wearing leathers and this time make the group of men move away. They then ride off into the night on motorbikes. In 1987, Canadian quartet the Nylons released an a cappella version of this song as a single under the shortened title "Kiss Him Goodbye". It became their biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number twelve that summer, and reaching number 15 in Canada. Canada: Attic Records AT 348; USA: Open Air Records OS-0022 Canada: Attic Records AT 1240; USA: Open Air Records OS-12240 Shipments figures based on certification alone. A 1970 cover by
589-522: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Twisted_Wheel&oldid=1238834100 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Twisted Wheel Club The Twisted Wheel was a nightclub in Manchester , England, open from 1963 to 1971. It
620-544: The organised trips to the club's weekend all-nighters from his hometown of Middlesbrough in the mid-1960s. The club gained the reputation of playing rare and uptempo soul. Following a visit to the Twisted Wheel in 1970, music journalist Dave Godin noted that the music played at the club, and in northern England in general, was quite different from the music played in London. His description " Northern soul " became
651-569: The original DJ playlists and many original members attended. Two "Goldmine" recordings, Twisted Wheel and Twisted Wheel Again , feature songs from the original DJ playlists. The physical structure of the club was removed from the Manchester landscape in 2013 when it was demolished to make way for a hotel. This happened despite attempts to save the building on the grounds of the venue's cultural importance. The Twisted Wheel relocated to Night People, 105-107 Princess Street, Manchester . The club had two rooms with separate sound systems, one of which
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#1732772840945682-503: The outcome is all but certain or when an individual player is ejected, disqualified, or more often in baseball games, a pitching change is made during an inning (which is when Faust would play it). It has also been sung by crowds in political rallies, to taunt political opponents or to drown out and mock disruptive counter-protesters. The song was used for the intro/outro theme tune for the 1990-1992 TV-am / Hey, Hey, It's Saturday! show Top Banana , hosted by Mike Brosnan. The song
713-478: The playlist and utilising the newly developed slip-cueing technique to cue in vinyl records. The Whitworth Street venue was a converted warehouse, with a coffee snack bar on the ground floor and a series of rooms in the cellar. These lower rooms housed the stage, a caged disc jockey area, and the main dance room. Back-lit iron wheels decorated the simple painted brick walls. Ivor Abadi ran the club without an alcohol licence, serving only soft drinks and snacks. There
744-498: The prime ministry following the ouster of Jean Chrétien . The next day's issue of La Voix de l'Est , a French newspaper in Granby, Quebec , included a cartoon by Paquette showing Chrétien calling Martin and singing "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye". In April 2009, the song was sampled by American singer Kristinia DeBarge in her single "Goodbye" . In May 2014, the song was sampled by Norwegian singer Adelén with Olé used for
775-528: The song. It had previously been sung spontaneously by fans in the stands, possibly beginning in a series with the Minnesota Twins July 1–3, 1977, a four-game series swept by the White Sox. The fan version went "Minnesota, Minnesota, Hey Hey Good Bye". Nancy Faust began playing it regularly on the organ later that month. It is generally directed at the losing side in an elimination contest when
806-479: The time, in addition to records released by larger record companies, there was a huge number of soul releases by a wide variety of artists on a multiplicity of obscure, independent labels. All-night sessions were held each Saturday, from 11:00 pm through to Sunday 7:30 am. DJs played new records generally not played elsewhere. However, by 1969 more mainstream songs like Steam's " Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye " and Tony Joe White's " Polk Salad Annie " were added to
837-482: Was another Twisted Wheel in Blackpool under the same ownership. Prior to the opening of the Twisted Wheel, most UK nightclubs played modern popular music, Soul and R&B. The Twisted Wheel DJs and local entrepreneurs imported large quantities of records directly from the United States. Many of the records played at the Twisted Wheel were rare even in the US; some may only have been released in one city or state. At
868-420: Was founded by Rainer Marz (guitar, vocal), Gunnar Schäfer (bass, vocal) and Ringo Funk (drums, vocal) in 1969 and in '69/'70 they had their first two hits "Heya" and "Na Na Hey Hey". With these two chartbreakers, they climbed to the number 1 position in almost all European countries. In October of 1973, The Dave Clark Five released the song as a single, credited to Dave Clark & Friends. It did not chart in
899-413: Was one of the first clubs to play the music that became known as Northern soul . The nightclub was founded by the brothers Jack, Phillip and Ivor Abadi as a blues and soul live music coffee bar/dance club. The original location of the club was on Brazennose Street, between Deansgate and Albert Square . This was the rhythm and blues mod venue, with Roger Eagle as DJ . The last all-nighter at
930-517: Was released under the Mercury subsidiary label Fontana and became a number-one pop single on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1969, and remained on the charts in early 1970. Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer wrote a blues shuffle version of the song in the early 1960s when they were members of a doo-wop group from Bridgeport, Connecticut , originally called the Glenwoods, then
961-452: Was solely dedicated to the legacy of the iconic Twisted Wheel, complete with original memorabilia and bare brick arches throughout, giving it the atmosphere that Whitworth St was known for. On 10 April 2022, the Twisted Wheel Club moved to the newly revamped Band on the Wall venue in Manchester's Northern Quarter. The Sunday afternoon / early evening sessions are held monthly. By October 2023,