Other Mixes By joey de vivre
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Let's TWIST Again Like We Did Last Summer!
| Artist | Song | |
| Hank Ballard (1959) | The Twist | |
| Joey Dee | The Peppermint Twist | |
| Randy & the Rockets | Let's Do the Cajun Twist | |
| Chubby Checker | Der Twist Beginnt (Let's Twist Again - in German) | |
| Little Betty | Twistin' School | |
| Eddie Clearwater | Twist Like This | |
| Brice Coefield | Cha Cha Twist | |
| Howard Gales & the Twins | Watusi Twist | |
| Los Loud Jets | Twist de Tomas | |
| Cellos | Chickenback Twist | |
| Phil Flowers | Twistin' Beat | |
| Ike Turner | Trackdown Twist | |
| Isley Bros. | Twist & Shout | |
| Sam Cooke | Twisting the Night Away | |
| Frank Sinatra | Everybody's Twisting | |
| the Vistas | Tiki Twist | |
| the Moongooners | Moongoon Twist | |
| Chubby Checker | Twisting USA | |
| Uptown Boys | Cha Cha Twist | |
| Buddy Miller | Teen Twist | |
| Glen & Christie | Wombat Twist | |
| the Jesters | Peter Gunn Twist | |
| Popshopping | Shoe Shoe Twist | |
| Dorse Lewis | Mexican Twist | |
| the Drivers | Dry Bones Twist | |
| Backbeat Band | Twist & Shout | |
| Robert Parker | Twisting Out in Space | |
| Chubby Checker | The Twist (1960) | |
Comment:
You can't resist . . . the Watusi Twist!It's hard to understand why the twist was such a huge worldwide dance craze, there's not much to it really.
I've read hints that Chubby Checker, the Twist's official mascot, had mob backing,
& that might explain why his version was the monster hit, rather than Hank Ballard's original.
Or maybe it was just one of those media-frenzy feeding on itself kind of things . . .
whatever, for a while there in the early 60's everybody was doing it . . . even, as you can see here,
Frank Sinatra, who may have hated himself the morning after caving in & doing "Everybody's Twisting".
Robert Parker must have thought he'd got himself a double word score by putting out a song combining
the two hot topics of 1961, the space program & the Twist, with "Twisting Out in Space".
This mix tries to be purely tunes about the dance itself,
not just a grab bag of songs with "Twist" in the title.
So I couldn't include Roy Milton's brilliant instrumental "T-Town Twist",
even though you could easily twist to it, because it's from 1951, way before the Peppermint Lounge thing.
But I may have got some of these wrong --
I don't know if "Twist & Shout" is a song that people actually twisted to?
It was 1962, so I'm assuming they did.
Credit where credit is due: this mix would not have been possible without the magic of AOTM cross-fertilization,
& I owe thanks to Thomas Mohr for the
German Chubby Checker track,
from his
1000 Nadelstiche ;
to Sean Lally,
for several cuts from
his
Sleaze-a-riffic mix;
thanks also to brad32's
Rock The Joint ;
& of course fwak's ever-fabulous
Universe of 1000 Dances! -- (And if there's anyone else out there w/ some other twist tunes to trade, please let me know!
Anyway, here's what it's all comes down to:
Take your baby out on the dancin' floor . . .
& wiggle wiggle 'til your hips get sore!
Feedback:
Twistacular! A very fine mix indeed. I just watched Twist again a few weeks ago, so the whole scene is fresh in my mind and this just toally captures the whole ball of wax - and then some! I love how a craze could get so damned out of hand so fast. I was going to suggest "Bedrock Twist" from the Flinstones, but I just looked at the CD and it's Twitch, not twist (doh!). Again, wonderful job on a mix that is so obviously a labor of love.
This looks like a whole lot of fun. Very, very cool. Great job.
Yeah, I always wondered about the Hank and Chubby thing, especially since the 2 versions barely differ, but Hank has the (slightly)better voice. Ah, the vagaries of public taste. Great mix.
Nice. I was wondering when this one was coming... ;-)
Delightful. I'm very happy to see Hank Ballard get his props here. Nice selections, it will go down in twistory.
I was doing this dance the other night, but then, that's the power of too much white wine for ya! Great mix, and lots of fun.
Great loads of twist-o-rama fun!!! Lotta' memories of this..., guess it's just a natural dance for kids, too...
You fiend! You've beaten me to the punch yet again!! Well, I might just have a couple dozen other twist tracks for a twistin' sequel. Now this is a boss idea and a boss collection - you're the boss, man! Somewhere out there, and I heard this on Zombo's show, there's an entire album side twist song - like a 20 minute twist contest. He had some kooky twist contest on air and challenged his listeners to send in a video of themselves twisting for 20 minutes. And yes, there were several entries. Now howsa bout a Hank Ballard mix?
How does Chubby Checker & The Fat Boys' 1987 version of 'The Twist' fit into it, tho? Very excellent stuff here.
Okay, I've seen the documentary Twist http://www.dvdjournal.com/quickreviews/t/twist.q.shtml
and one of the reasons this particular dance was so popular is because it was the first time couples danced without physical contact. More than you wanted to know? Then, LET'S DANCE!
and one of the reasons this particular dance was so popular is because it was the first time couples danced without physical contact. More than you wanted to know? Then, LET'S DANCE!
Another fine mix by the Dance-theme king! This mix really moves, Joey!
Very cool. Let your backbone slip!
i would love to have this one!
This looks excellent!
THis looks excellent man! On theme as tight as possible, a marvel. Who is the girl - Sandra Dee is my only guess.
Just to repeat what everyone else said: very nicely done. Would that be Kim Novak and Robert Conrad on the cover ?
Beautiful, I think the fact that there wasn't much to it it what really made this dance popular, I mean, everyone, literaly,(except maybe Johnny Ek , the human torso) could do it, and , like Gerry mentioned, I little alchohol just make it that much easier. It's really the only dance I can do without messing it up completely. I love the little jump that Joey Dee adds to his routine. You can see it in the Twist Documentary...and a 1,2,3 kick,1,2,3,jump.
Hi everyone,
Is it possible to somehow download this mix?
Is it possible to somehow download this mix?