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Chubby Checker
The Twist
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“The Twist” is a twelve bar blues song that gave birth to the Twist
dance craze. The song was written and originally released in 1959 by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters as a B-side (to “Teardrops on Your Letter”) but his version was only a moderate 1960 hit, peaking at 28 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song, and the dance the Twist, was popularized in 1960 when the song was covered by Chubby Checker. His single became a hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 19, 1960 (one week), and then setting a record by being the only single to reach number one in two different chart runs when it resurfaced and topped the chart again on January 13, 1962 (two weeks).
In 1988, “The Twist” became popular once again, due to a new recording of the song by The Fat Boys...
Read on...Song lines: ♪ Oooh-yeah just like this ... Come on little miss and do the twist ... Come on baby let's do the twist ♫
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This song is listed #451 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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