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Let's Twist Again
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Wikipedia article
"'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 & Roll Recording. Checker also recorded the song in German as "Der Twist Beginnt" and in Italian as "Balliamo il Twist". A sample of "Der Twist Beginnt" would later be used by The Residents to begin their 1976 album 'The Third Reich 'n Roll'. The song appears on the soundtrack of the 2011 film 'The Help'.
Croatian singer Tatjana Cameron Taji made a remake of the song in Croatian renaming it 'Moj mali je opasan'. In 1985, Kids Incorporated covered "Let's Twist Again" in the Season 2 episode "Rock of Ages".[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k7-ySYp57s Kids Incorporated Let's Twist Again (1985) ]
Chart performance
Johnny Hallyday version (in French)
The song was covered in French by Johnny Hallyday. His version (titled "Viens danser le twist") was released in 1961 and spent seven weeks in total at no. 1 on the singles sales chart in France (from 13 November to 13 December 1961 and from 13 January to 9 February 1962). In Wallonia (French Belgium) his single spent 40 weeks on the chart, also peaking at number 1.
Charts
See also
*Twist songs
References
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