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"The Twist"
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"The Twist" is an American pop song written and originally released in 1958 by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters every bit a B-side to "Teardrops on Your Letter".^[1] It was inspired by the twist dance craze. Ballard's version was a moderate hit, peaking at number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960.^[2] On the US Billboard Hot R&B Sides nautical chart, the original version of "The Twist" first peaked at number xvi in 1959 and at number six in 1960.^[three]

Chubby Checker's 1960 embrace version of the song reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 19, 1960, where it stayed for 1 calendar week, and setting a record at the time as the just song to reach number 1 in two different hit parade runs when it resurfaced and topped the popular hit parade again for two weeks starting on January xiii, 1962.^[four] This would not happen for another song for about 59 years until Dec 2020, when Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" reached the summit later previously topping in another split up chart run in December 2019.

In 1988, "The Twist" once again became popular due to a new recording of the song by The Fat Boys featuring Chubby Checker. This version reached number two in the United Kingdom and number 1 in Deutschland. In 2014, Billboard magazine declared the song the "biggest striking" of the 1960s.^[5]

History [edit]

Hank Ballard wrote "The Twist" after seeing teenagers in Tampa, Florida doing the titular dance.^{[six] [vii]} In a 2014 interview with Tom Meros, Midnighters member Lawson Smith claimed that The Gospel Consolaters' Nathaniel Bills wrote the song and initially asked The Spaniels to record it, and that Ballard "stole" the vocal, falsely claiming authorship.^[8] Light-green and Ballard already had written a song together called "Is Your Dearest for Existent", which was based on Clyde McPhatter and The Drifters' 1955 vocal "What'cha Gonna Do", so they created an entirely new vocal by but putting the new Twist words to the older melody. They originally recorded a loose version of the song in a Florida studio for Vee-Jay Records in early 1958, with slightly unlike lyrics, featuring Light-green on guitar playing like Jimmy Reed. This version appeared on the box prepare "The Vee-Jay Story" in 1993, but it went unreleased at the fourth dimension. They did not get around to recording the released version until Nov 11, 1958, when the Midnighters were in Cincinnati.^{[ citation needed ]}

Ballard idea "The Twist" was the hit side, but King Records producer Henry Glover preferred the ballad "Teardrops on Your Letter", which he'd written himself.^{[ commendation needed ]} The song ultimately became the B-side of Hank Ballard and The Midnighters' 1959 unmarried "Teardrops on Your Letter".

Chubby Checker version [edit]

"The Twist"
1960 45 rpm label
Single past Chubby Checker
from the anthology Twist with Stubby Checker
B-side	"Toot" "Twistin' USA"
Released	June 1960
Recorded	1960
Genre	Rock and roll, popular
Length	2:34
Label	Parkway 811
Songwriter(due south)	Hank Ballard
Producer(southward)	Dave Appell
Chubby Checker singles chronology
"Dancing Dinosaur" (1959) "The Twist" (1960) "The Hucklebuck" (1960)

The vocal became popular on a Baltimore television trip the light fantastic toe testify hosted by local DJ Buddy Deane; Deane recommended the vocal to Dick Clark, host of the national American Bandstand. When the song proved popular with his audience, Clark attempted to book Ballard to perform on the testify. Ballard was unavailable, and Clark searched for a local creative person to tape the song. He settled on Checker, whose voice was very similar to Ballard's.^[9] Checker'due south version featured Buddy Savitt on sax and Ellis Tollin on drums,^[x] with bankroll vocals by the Dreamlovers. Exposure for the song on American Bandstand and on The Dick Clark Sabbatum Night Testify helped propel the vocal to the top of the American charts.^[11]

In July 1960, Checker performed "The Twist" for the starting time time in front end of a live audience at the Rainbow Society in Wildwood, New Jersey, and just weeks afterwards, on Aug. half-dozen, 1960, the vocal became a national sensation after Checker performed information technology on Dick Clark's American Bandstand.

In belatedly 1961 and early 1962, the twist craze belatedly caught on in high society. Sightings of celebrities doing the dance fabricated the vocal a hit with adults, particularly afterward 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 involvement made "The Twist" the first recording to hit number one on the United States charts during 2 separate chart runs, and marked a major turning betoken for developed acceptance of rock and roll music.^[ix]

Checker re-recorded the song numerous times. An updated 1982 recording (from his album The Modify Has Come up) was retitled "T-82", and in the 1990s, he recorded a country version. In the tardily 1970s, he recorded a new version that, except for the sound mix and some minor arrangement changes, was identical to the 1960 original; as a result this later version is often misidentified on compilations as the original recording. In 1988, he joined The Fat Boys on a rap version of the song, which hit number ii in the U.k., number 16 in the United states, and number 1 in Germany and Switzerland. Checker too joined the grouping to perform the song that summertime at a London tribute concert for Nelson Mandela.^[11] In add-on, he recorded variations on the theme, such as "Let's Twist Once again" to keep the craze alive ("Let's Twist Again" was and has remained more popular than "The Twist" itself in the Uk). Joey Dee and the Starliters, the Peppermint Lounge house band, scored a hit with "Peppermint Twist", while other artists, including Sam Cooke scored with other "Twist"-themed songs. In Europe, Petula Clark scored hits in several countries with "Twist"-themed records, while Neb Haley and His Comets recorded several albums of Twist songs in Mexico for the Orfeon Records label. In 1997, the vocal was featured in a Teledyne Waterpik commercial, and a commercial for Denny's in 1998, to promote the New Slams.

In the sixth episode of the second season of the Tv serial Quantum Jump, entitled "Good Morning, Peoria" (set on September 9, 1959), Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) and Al Calavicci (Dean Stockwell) have a Kiss with History, coming together Chubby Checker (played by himself) in a radio station (Sam leaps into a radio DJ called Chick Howell), where they sing and dance "The Twist". An impressed Checker asks, "Can I use that motility?" Sam responds, "Yah, but I got it from you!"

Checker later toured with this signature piece throughout the U.S. Midwest in the 1980s.

Weekly charts [edit]

Accolades [edit]

Stubby Checker'due south "The Twist" held the award of being the most successful unmarried in Billboard history on its diverse "Greatest Hot 100 Songs of All Time" charts over the decades.^[17] Information technology held the title until 2021, when it was dethroned by The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights".^[18]

The vocal is ranked number 451 on the Rolling Stone magazine'southward list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Jim Dawson wrote a 1995 book virtually the vocal and the Twist phenomenon called The Twist: The Story of the Vocal and Trip the light fantastic toe That Changed the Globe for Faber and Faber ISBN 978-0-571-19852-8.

The song has been added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress on March 21, 2013 for long-term preservation.^[19] In 2014, Billboard mag declared the vocal the "biggest hit" of the 1960s.^[5]

In 2018, Checker's version was one of half dozen singles inducted into the Stone and Roll Hall of Fame in a new category honoring singles by artists who take non been elected to the Hall.^[20]

Editions [edit]

• Usa: Hank Ballard and the Midnighters: "Teardrops on Your Alphabetic character" b/westward "The Twist" 1959
• USA: Stubby Checker: "The Twist" b/due west "Toot" Parkway 811; 7/sixty
• U.s.: Stubby Checker: "The Twist" b/w "Twistin' USA" Parkway 811; 11/61

Run across also [edit]

• List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one songs of 1960
• Listing of Billboard Hot 100 number-ane songs of 1962
• List of number-1 hits of 1988 (Germany)
• List of number-one hits of 1988 (Switzerland)
• Twist songs

References [edit]

1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2000). Acme Popular Singles 1955-1999. Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research, Inc. p. 32. ISBN0-89820-140-3.
2. ^ The Billboard Hot 100 Chart Listing For The Week Of Jul 18 1960, Billboard.com ^{[ dead link ]}
3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 44.
4. ^ Gilliland, John (1969). "Testify 20 – Forty Miles of Bad Route: Early '60s potpourri" (audio). Pop Chronicles. University of North Texas Libraries. Rails ii.
5. ^ ^{a b} Leight, Elias (October 27, 2014). "The Height 20 Billboard Hot 100 Hits of the 1960s". Retrieved October 28, 2014.
6. ^ Bronson, Fred (2003). The Billboard Book of Number Ane Hits, p.74. ISBN 9780823076772.
7. ^ Eury, Michael (August 2020). "The Twist". RetroFan. United States: TwoMorrows Publishing (10): 16–17.
8. ^ Meros, Tom (October 29, 2014). "Midnighters' Lawson Smith: Hank Ballad Stole 'The Twist'". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-22. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
9. ^ ^{a b} Shannon, Bob; John Javna (1986). Backside The Hits:Inside Stories of Classic Pop and Rock and Roll. New York: Warner Books. pp. 98–99. ISBN0-446-38171-3.
10. ^ Jackson, Blair (May one, 2007). "Classic Tracks: Chubby Checker'southward "The Twist"". Mix Magazine. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011.
11. ^ ^{a b} Rees, Dafydd; Luke Crampton (1999). Rock Stars Encyclopedia . New York: DK Publishing. pp. 192–194. ISBN0-7894-4613-8.
12. ^ "Chubby Checker Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. 9 September 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
13. ^ "The Hot 100, Week of January 13, 1962". Billboard . Retrieved September 9, 2021.
14. ^ "Stubby Checker Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard . Retrieved April ii, 2021.
15. ^ "The Height 20 Billboard Hot 100 Hits of the 1960s". Billboard. Dec 19, 2009. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
16. ^ "Hot 100 turns threescore". Billboard . Retrieved August 6, 2018.
17. ^ "Stubby Checker'south 'The Twist': The Improbable Life and Legacy of the Hot 100's All-Time Number One Vocal". Billboard. August ii, 2018. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
18. ^ Mamo, Heran (2021-11-23). "The Greatest Hit: The New No. 1 Song of All Time". Billboard . Retrieved 2021-12-02 .
19. ^ "Simon & Garfunkel song among those to be preserved". CFN13. Archived from the original on x April 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
20. ^ Smith, Troy L. (April 15, 2018). "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame introduces new category for singles". Cleveland.com . Retrieved Apr 21, 2018.

External links [edit]

• Chubby Checker discography

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twist_%28song%29

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