In the mid 60s, American R&B singer Wilson Pickett recorded the monster hit, Land Of A Thousand Dances.

This would describe the Tastee Talent Trail audition held on Saturday at the Rudolph Elder Park in Morant Bay, St Thomas.

Fourteen Dance groups came before judges Alaine Laughton, Oral Tacey and Amelia 'Milk' Sewell, and one by one they fell like flies. Indeed, it was the final group of the day, Uprizin Dancers, a quartet of three males and a female, which earned a Lifeline Card from the judges.

Uprizin Dancers apart, the next best in this idiom was the all-girl dance group, Diamond Swagg, but with more coordination they might have made it through.

Saturday's audition, the penultimate of the 2012 season, sponsored this year by Tastee, Pepsi, TVJ, FAME, Sparkles, T- Shirt Express and Kosmo Car Rentals, was the first to be held in St Thomas.

Similar the other first-time audition venue Mandeville, St Thomas was a smashing success as singers, deejays, singjays, a poet and dancers all paraded their talent with hopes of making it to the December Grand Finals and a chance at winning the $1 million first prize.

At the end of the day, 10 Lifeline Cards were given out, six singers, a dance group, two singjays and a deejay made it to the next round.

Once again, males dominated the selectees as only two females were among the lucky ones.

Next stop on the Tastee Talent Trail will be the final audition in Cross Roads St Andrew on September 8.

Others who will go forward are Fabian Tulloch, Jervian Walker, Renaldo Meikle, Glenton Brown, Albert Brown, Oneil Lawrence and Rameish Bryan.