Chubby Checker "THE TWIST"
About "THE TWIST"
"The Twist" is an American pop song written and originally released in 1958 by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters as a B-side to "Teardrops on Your Letter". 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. On the US Billboard Hot R&B Sides chart, the original version of "The Twist" first peaked at number sixteen in 1959 and at number six in 1960.Chubby Checker's 1960 cover version of the song reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 19, 1960, where it stayed for one week, and setting a record at the time as the only 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 13, 1962. This would not happen for another song for nearly 59 years until December 2020, when Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" reached the summit after previously topping in another separate chart run in December 2019.
In 1988, "The Twist" again became popular due to a new recording of the song by The Fat Boys featuring Chubby Checker. This version reached number 2 in the United Kingdom and number 1 in Germany. In 2014, Billboard magazine declared the song the "biggest hit" of the 1960s.
Top songs by Chubby Checker
Let's Twist Again
The Hucklebuck
The Twist
Limbo Rock
Let's Limbo Some More
La Paloma Twist
Hey Bobba Needle
Jingle Bell Rock
Hey, Bobba Needle
Dancin' Party
(dance The) Mess Around
Popeye
Lovely Lovely (loverly Loverly)
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
Pony Time
Lazy Elsie Molly
Toot
Twist It Up
The Weekend's Here
Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On
Hey You Little Boo—ga—loo
Cu Ma La Be—stay
Ann Rosie
Good, Good Lovin'
Twenty Miles
The Ray Charles—ton
Hooka Tooka
Dance The Mess Around
At The Discotheque
Oh, Susannah
Slow Twistin'
Got To Get Myself Together
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