"Let's Twist Again ""Let's Twist Again"" is a song written by Kal Mann and Dave Appell, and released as a single by Chubby Checker. One of the biggest hit singles of 1961, it reached No.8 on the U.S. ""Billboard"" pop chart (No.3 on Cash Box) in August of that year and subsequently reached No.2 in the U.K. in February 1962. The song refers to the Twist dance craze and Checker's 1960 single ""The Twist"", a two-time U.S. No.1 single (in September 1960 and again in January 1962 on re-release). The song received the 1962 Grammy Award for Best Rock &"
"looked at me her eyes just shined like gold, and when she did the twist she bopped me to my soul"". But the simple dance that we now know as the Twist originates in the late fifties among teenagers, and was popularized by Chubby Checker in his preparation to debut the song to a national audience on August 6, 1960, on ""The Dick Clark Show"", a Saturday night program that, unlike disc jockey Clark's daytime American Bandstand, was a stage show with a sitting audience. Dick Clark was a powerhouse in music at the time, thanks to American Bandstand, which"
"searched for a local artist to record the song. He settled on Checker, whose voice was very similar to Ballard's. Checker's version featured Buddy Savitt on sax and Ellis Tollin on drums, with backing vocals by the Dreamlovers. Exposure for the song on ""American Bandstand"" and on ""The Dick Clark Saturday Night Show"" helped propel the song to the top of the American charts. In July 1960, Checker performed ""The Twist"" for the first time in front of a live audience at the Rainbow Club in Wildwood, New Jersey, and just weeks later, on Aug. 6, 1960, the song became"
"of ""The Twist"" at the age of 18 in July 1960 in Wildwood, New Jersey at the Rainbow Club, ""The Twist"" went on to become the only single to top the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 twice, in two separate chart runs. (Bing Crosby's ""White Christmas"" had done so on ""Billboard""'s earlier chart.) ""The Twist"" had previously peaked at #16 on the ""Billboard"" rhythm and blues chart, in the 1959 version recorded by its author, Hank Ballard, whose band The Midnighters first performed the dance on stage. Checker's ""Twist"", however, was a nationwide smash, aided by his many appearances on Dick Clark's"
"released the song ""The Twist"" with an accompanying dance of the same name in 1960. He performed the dance on the television show ""American Bandstand"", and the song reached number one in 1960 and 1962. The Twist was the most popular dance craze of the 1960s because it broke away from the trend of partner dancing enabling people to perform on their own. James Brown was a major contributor to social dance. He popularized several fad dances in the 1970s such as the Mashed Potato, the Boogaloo, and the Good Foot. His accompanying songs to these dances include ""(Do the)"
"As the Twist craze hit in 1960–1961, celebrities swarmed into the Peppermint Lounge - Audrey Hepburn, Truman Capote, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Liberace, Noël Coward, Frank Sinatra, Norman Mailer, Annette Funicello, even the elusive Greta Garbo - to dance to the house band, Joey Dee and the Starliters. Jackie Kennedy was such an enthusiast that she arranged for a temporary ""Peppermint Lounge"" to be mounted in the White House. One such event even took place at a meeting of the austere Council of the Organization of American States. A sister club was opened in Miami Beach. The proprietor Ralph Saggesse"
"Twist (dance) The twist is a dance that was inspired by rock and roll music. From 1959 to the early sixties it became the first worldwide dance craze, enjoying immense popularity among all people and drawing fire from critics who felt it was too provocative. It inspired dances such as the Jerk, the Pony, the Watusi, the Mashed Potato, the Monkey, and the Funky Chicken, but none were as popular. Having seen teenagers in Tampa, Florida doing the dance, Hank Ballard wrote ""The Twist"" and released it as the B-side of Hank Ballard and The Midnighters' 1959 single ""Teardrops on"
"Twistin'"", which referenced the objections many parents had to the pelvic motions of the dance. In Latin America, the twist caught fire in the early 1960s, fueled by Bill Haley & His Comets. Their recordings of ""The Spanish Twist"" and ""Florida Twist"" were successes, particularly in Mexico. Haley, in interviews, credited Checker and Ballard. Coincidentally, Checker appeared in two musicals that took their titles from films Haley made in the 1950s: ""Twist Around the Clock"" (after ""Rock Around the Clock"") and ""Don't Knock the Twist"" (after ""Don't Knock the Rock""). In 1962 Dell Comics produced a comic called ""The Twist"""
"a national sensation after Checker performed it on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. In late 1961 and early 1962, the twist craze belatedly caught on in high society. Sightings of celebrities doing the dance made the song a hit with adults, particularly after a report in the Cholly Knickerbocker gossip column. Soon there were long lines at the Peppermint Lounge nightclub in New York, the most popular celebrity twisting spot. This new interest made ""The Twist"" the only recording to hit number one on the United States charts during two separate chart runs, and marked a major turning point for adult"
"Mike McGill Mike McGill (born 1964) is an American skateboarder who is best known for inventing the trick entitled the ""McTwist"", an inverted 540 degree mute grab aerial. A McTwist is a transitional trick that was invented by McGill and consists of a front flip combined with a 540-degree rotation. McGill first performed the maneuvre on a wooden half-pipe in Rättvik, Sweden in 1984 and then at the Del Mar Skate Ranch's concrete bowl, called The Keyhole, when he returned to the United States (U.S.). McGill was inspired by Fred Blood, who had performed a 540 on roller skates, and"
"""The Twist"" became number one on the singles chart in the United States in 1960 and then again in 1962. In 1961, at the height of the craze, patrons at New York's Peppermint Lounge on West 45th Street were twisting to the house band, a local group from Jersey, Joey Dee and the Starliters. Their song, ""The Peppermint Twist (Part 1)"" became number one in the United States for three weeks in January 1962. In 1962 Bo Diddley released his album ""Bo Diddley's A Twister"". He recorded several Twist tracks, including ""The Twister"", ""Bo's Twist"", and ""Mama Don't Allow No"
"credited with inventing the ""twist"" that characterises the first few steps of the follower's footwork in the Swingout. By the end of the classic era Lindy Hop was danced across Harlem in ballrooms, night clubs], cabaret clubs, rent parties, apartments, and street parties — almost anywhere people came together with music to dance. In 1935 Lindy Hop—with swing music—had become increasingly popular throughout America, attributable in part to the success of musicians such as Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, and Chick Webb. Ballrooms across the United States hosted the big bands of the day, with Chick Webb leading one"
"his mother's permission (his father had died a few months earlier), he moved to Madrid in 1961 at the age of sixteen, where he recorded his first four songs. In popular circles he became known as ""Mike Ríos, the King of Twist"". As Mike Ríos he obtained some television popularity during the first half of the 1960s. In 1964 he resumed using his real name which cost him the support of his group, Los Relámpagos (the Lightning). He made his first incursion into cinema with a movie titled ""Dos chicas locas, locas"" (Two Crazy Girls). An introspective search for his"
"Chubby Checker Chubby Checker (birth name Ernest Evans; October 3, 1941) is an American rock 'n roll singer and dancer. He is widely known for popularising many dance styles including the twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard's R&B hit ""The Twist"" and the Pony with hit ""Pony Time"". In September 2008, ""The Twist"" topped ""Billboard""s list of the most popular singles to have appeared in the Hot 100 since its debut in 1958, an honor it maintained for an August 2013 update of the list. He also popularized the ""Limbo Rock"" and its trademark limbo"
"ran five times a week in the afternoons, showcasing local dancers and visiting performers who lip-synched along with their recordings. Clark saw the song's potential when he heard Hank Ballard's original version, but Ballard and his group, whose greatest hit had been ""Work With Me Annie"" in 1954, was considered too raunchy to appeal to Clark's teenage audience. He urged Philadelphia record label Cameo/Parkway to record a new version of ""The Twist"" with young, wholesome Chubby Checker, who had displayed his talent for copying other artists on an earlier novelty hit ""The Class"". Released in summer 1960, Checker's rendition of"
"the greatest commercial success for male and white performers, in this era the genre was dominated by black and female artists. Rock and roll had not disappeared at the end of the 1950s and some of its energy can be seen in the Twist dance craze of the early 1960s, mainly benefiting the career of Chubby Checker. Cliff Richard had the first British rock and roll hit with ""Move It"", effectively ushering in the sound of British rock. At the start of the 1960s, his backing group the Shadows was the most successful group recording instrumentals. While rock 'n' roll"
"That Changed the World"" by Jim Dawson, . In 2009 Lady Gaga danced the twist with her backup dancers in the official video for the song ""Bad Romance"". The Twist was also a pivotal part of the book ""The Strange Case of Origami Yoda"" (2010), in which an origami puppet made to resemble Yoda gives out advice. Twist (dance) The twist is a dance that was inspired by rock and roll music. From 1959 to the early sixties it became the first worldwide dance craze, enjoying immense popularity among all people and drawing fire from critics who felt it was"
"the band was known in Hispanic America) signed with the Orfeón label of Mexico and scored an unexpected hit with ""Twist Español"", a Spanish-language recording based on the twist dance craze, which was sweeping America at the time. Haley followed up with ""Florida Twist"" (#3 MEX, according Billboard Hits Of The World 04.21.62), which was for a time the biggest-selling single in Mexican history. Although Chubby Checker and Hank Ballard were credited with starting the twist craze in America, in Mexico and Latin America, Bill Haley and His Comets were proclaimed the Kings of the Twist. Thanks to the success"
"""Now let me introduce myself on this cut; I'm AD Rock I'm lit, like a motherfuck; Well I'm brewin' up rhymes like I was usin' a still; I've got an old school flow like Mike McGill"" Mike McGill Mike McGill (born 1964) is an American skateboarder who is best known for inventing the trick entitled the ""McTwist"", an inverted 540 degree mute grab aerial. A McTwist is a transitional trick that was invented by McGill and consists of a front flip combined with a 540-degree rotation. McGill first performed the maneuvre on a wooden half-pipe in Rättvik, Sweden in 1984"
"for Faber and Faber . The song has been added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress on March 21, 2013 for long-term preservation. In 2014, ""Billboard"" magazine declared the song the ""biggest hit"" of the 1960s. In 2018, Checker's version was one of six singles inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in a new category honoring singles by artists who have not been elected to the Hall. The Twist (song) ""The Twist"" is an American pop song written and originally released in early 1959 (having been recorded on 11/11/1958) by Hank Ballard and"
"by the United States Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) when actions in 1961 were dubbed ""Operation Twist"". In 2011 the FOMC revived Operation Twist. The dance would come to be seen as emblematic of the early 1960s in later years, with popular songs, television shows, and movies likely to reference it when they wanted to convey the spirit of that time period. In 1978 rock band The B-52's included the line, ""Twisting round the fire"", in their song of 1960s beach party film references, ""Rock Lobster"". In 1993, a film by Ron Mann called ""Twist"" was a documentary about the"
"second half of the recording is rarely heard today. ""Peppermint Twist"" replaced Chubby Checker's ""The Twist,"" the song that sparked the Twist fad, at the #1 position. A version by Bill Haley & His Comets was recorded for Armed Forces Radio in 1962, but was not released until 2000. The lead singer in the Starliters' version is David Brigati, whose brother, Eddie Brigati, was a singer for the 1960s hit pop group, the (Young) Rascals. The other personnel on the record featured Carlton Lattimore on organ, Billy Butler on guitar, Jerome Richardson on sax, and Don Martin on drums. The"
"paid. So, he let the plan to have Twister played on the Tonight Show go forward. On May 3, 1966 Johnny Carson, the host of the show, was enticed by the Twister mat and demonstrated the game along with Eva Gabor. The next morning there were 50 people standing in line to buy the game at Abercrombie & Fitch where a few games had not been returned. Three million Twister games were sold in the following year. Several spin-off games have followed over the years such as: Twister Moves, Twister Dance, Twister Hoopla, and many others. In 1967 Twister was"
"American Bandstand, the Top 10 American Bandstand ranking of the song, and the teenagers on the show who enjoyed dancing the Twist. The song was so ubiquitous that Checker felt that his critics thought that he could only succeed with dance records typecasting him as a dance artist. Checker later lamented:""...in a way, ""The Twist"" really ruined my life. I was on my way to becoming a big nightclub performer, and ""The Twist"" just wiped it out... It got so out of proportion. No one ever believes I have talent."" By 1965 alone, ""The Twist"" had sold over 15 million"
"Do the Twist (Connie Francis album) Do the Twist! is a studio album recorded in late 1961/early 1962 by U. S. Entertainer Connie Francis. It was released in early 1962 on MGM Records. Later that same year it was repackackaged and re-released under a new title, ""Dance Party"". When the Twist became the biggest dance phenomenon of 1961, many artists recorded Twist-themed singles and albums, usually as a quickly produced rush releases as the audiences's tastes in current dances changed very fast. Some of the follow-up dances to the Twist were the Mashed Potato or the Pony. For her own"
"group was billed as ""Hank Ballard and The Midnighters"" with their label changed from Federal to King, the parent label. Between 1959 and 1961 they had several more both on the R&B and Pop charts, starting with ""Teardrops on Your Letter"", a number 4 R&B hit in 1960 that had as its B-side the Ballard-written song ""The Twist"". A few months later, Chubby Checker's cover version of the song went to number 1 on the pop charts. It would return to the top of the charts again in 1962 – the only song in the rock and roll era to"
"the Lounge. Celebrity visitors continued to make an appearance, such as Judy Garland, John Wayne, Jackie Kennedy, Nat ""King"" Cole, Shirley MacLaine, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, and Liberace. Dee and company were such a sensation that they became the house band for the Peppermint Lounge for over a year. Dee wrote ""Peppermint Twist,"" along with producer Henry Glover, as a tribute to the lounge and the song scored #1 on the U.S. charts in early 1962. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. By this time the team had contracted with Roulette Records. In 1961,"
"of the song in 2003, titled ""Limbo Rock (Remixes),"" produced Mike Rogers and Gary Lefkowith and featuring Inner Circle. Phil Sweetland, writing for the ""New York Times"" stated that at ""age 62 and 43 years after 'The Twist,' Chubby Checker has once again comes up with a top-five single: a hip-hop-flavored version of another of his 1960's hits, 'Limbo Rock.'"" Sweetland also states that ""the Dec. 20 issue of Billboard listed the song at No. 3 on its hot dance singles sales chart, making it Mr. Checker's first top-five hit since the original 'Limbo Rock' in 1962."" The Chubby Checker"
"re-released a year later. According to ""The Twist"", by Jim Dawson, Dave Appell, working for Kal Mann and Bernie Lowe's Cameo-Parkway Records of Philadelphia, wanted to record a version of the Midnighters' hit, ""The Twist."" Although Ballard was credited as the sole writer of the song, its origins allegedly went back further than that. In the summer of 1960, while serving as bandleader of Cameo-Parkway's house band, Appell wanted to re-record the song, as he saw the song as having hit potential. In the meantime, Dick Clark, the host of ABC's ""American Bandstand"", also noticed how local white teens in"
"Loans"" ""Teeter-Totter Love"" (1963 version) The Marcels' popularity in 1961 was so great that they were included in the Oscar Rudolph film ""Twist Around the Clock"". Released on December 30, 1961, with the tagline ""It's Twist-eriffic! The first full-length movie about the Twist!"" the film also showcased fellow artists Chubby Checker, Dion DiMucci, Vicki Spencer and singer-songwriter and TV show host turned actor Clay Cole. Allen Johnson, Gene Bricker, Cornelius Harp, Fred Johnson, Richard Knauss and Ronald Mundy of The Marcels were all included--and had speaking parts in addition to performing musical numbers. They sing ""Merry Twist-Mas"", which was released"
"with jazz and symphonic music, is often taken as the key recording in progressive rock, helping the widespread adoption of the genre in the early 1970s among existing blues-rock and psychedelic bands, as well as newly formed acts. Chubby Checker during the early 1960s popularizes the enduring dance craze the Twist with his hit cover of Hank Ballard & the Midnighters' R&B hit ""The Twist"". Gerry Goffin and Carole King become a very influential duo in pop music, writing numerous number one hits including the first song to ever reach number one by a girl group, the Shirelles ""Will You"
"Twist and Shout ""Twist and Shout"" is a 1961 song written by Phil Medley and Bert Berns (later credited as ""Bert Russell""). The song was originally recorded by the Top Notes. It first became a chart hit as a single by the Isley Brothers in 1962. The song has since been covered by several artists, including the Beatles on their first album ""Please Please Me"" (1963), as well as the Tremeloes in 1962 and the Who in 1970 and 1984. In 1961, one year after Phil Spector became a staff producer at Atlantic Records, he was asked to produce a"
"for dozens of major performers including Dionne Warwick, Righteous Brothers, Ronettes, Bobby Freeman, George & Teddy, Freddy Cannon, Marvin Gaye, Dick & Dee Dee, Jan & Dean, Gene Chandler, MANY more, and at least one of the three Twist Party concerts by then chart topper Chubby Checker held at the Cow Palace in San Francisco in 1962 and 1963. The concerts were put together by ""Big Daddy"" Tom Donohue and Bobby Mitchell from the then infamous KYA 1260 AM radio station and largely choreographed by Jerry Marcellino and Mel Larson who went on to produce many Motown artists including Michael"