The Twist (song)
The Twist is the title of a composed by Hank Ballard song that evolved in the version of Chubby Checker symbol song for the same dance, with sixteen -month interruption twice reached the No. 1 U.S. pop singles chart and over three million copies sold.
History
The Twist is a composition of Hank Ballard, who had meanwhile brought out a number of pieces with lewd text. With his group, he took Midnighters 11 November 1958 on the this time lyrically unproblematic The Twist, published in December 1958 as the B-side first for Federal # 12345th The rapid twelve -bar blues used in copyright dubious form of the basic melody of the Drifters hits What ' Cha Gonna Do? of March 1955. Midnighters - The Original The Twist quoted in April 1959 as a B-side independently on place 16 of the Rhythm & Blues charts.
Dick Clark, host of the popular TV pop show American Bandstand, was so fascinated by the song and suggested that Danny & The Juniors thereof shall release a cover version. As no reaction followed, the influential Clark turned to the local record label Cameo - Parkway, so they should record the song with a certain Ernest Evans. Evans, with stage name Chubby Checker, Clark was known by his first humorous single The Class, be imitated vocally in the unwilling student named Fats Domino, Coasters, Elvis Presley, Cozy Cole and the Chipmunks Checker.
Under his stage name Chubby Checker was in May / June, 1960, with almost identical arrangement as the original The Twist with only three takes within 35 minutes in Philadelphia was added to an existing music track with Buddy Savitt (saxophone) and Ellis Tollin (drums). The recordings took place in Philadelphia in the small Cameo Parkway Studio and Reco - Art- Studio. The single was released in July 1960 with the Toot ( Parkway # 811 ) B-side on the market. Checkers version exhibited such striking similarities with the original, that Hank Ballard listening to the radio thought it was his piece.
Chubby Checker introduced the song later in the nationally syndicated afternoon show " American Bandstand " on 21 April and on 28 September 1960 and led there and the new dance of the same name before. He explained there the astonished audience the concept, " to be able to dance from the beat independently ." Checker also appeared in Dick Clarks evening version of the TV show "The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show", August 6, 1960, The Twist on. These popular Teenmusik shows have certainly helped even with Checker as a vehicle to the fact that the song on September 19, 1960 could get to the top of the pop charts for a week for the first time. The Twist quickly developed into the international fashion dance, partly because it consisted of very simple movements.
Re-publishing of
Meanwhile, the twist shaft had conquered the whole of the western world, while Checkers company was trying to duplicate this concept of a new dance with accompanying song. Thus, the short-lived " Hucklebuck ", " Pony Time" and " Mess Around " were created to also composed hastily songs before Chubby Checker with the song Let's Twist Again once again reminded of the most successful dance. In the TV show " Ed Sullivan Show", he revitalized the Twist song and dance on October 22, 1961. Consequently Checkers The Twist was again published in December 1961 and reached on January 13, 1962 again the # 1 position, this time even for 2 weeks. Now the Twist fever had achieved full effect, because on January 27, 1962 Peppermint Twist by Joey Dee & The Starlighters number one in the charts.
Statistics
The song The Twist received a BMI Award and was six times gecovert, except by Chubby Checker. This includes the version of the rap trio Fat Boys ( with Chubby Checker ) was from June 1988, the most successful. According Checker, he received the first platinum album of the U.S. music history for the LP Let's Twist Again ( September 1961 ).