Let's Go Trippin'-Dick Dale #1
New in the top ten
Funny How Time Slips Away-Jummy Ellidge #6
Your Ma Said Ya Cried-Kenny Dino #9
Highest debut
It Will Stand-Showmen #34
New
Mexican Hat Twist-Applejcacks
The Twist-Hank Ballard
The Basie Twist-Count Basie
Twistin' All Night Long-Freddy Cannon
Tequila Twist-Champs
Twistin' USA-Chubby Checker
along with three versions of The Peppermint Twist and so on and so on...
and don't forget Twist Along With Mitch-Mitch Miller
It says at the bottom Twist with KFXM 24 HOURS A DAY....................
Every pick hit was a Twist title, including Hank Ballard's original version...a new twist in picking hits I guess.
ReplyDeleteIs this a rerelease of the
ReplyDeleteoriginal TWIST by HB?
By now Chubby Checker had run
it up to # 1 twice. Historical
and never repeated again.
I just keep thinking that
KMEN is just 90+ days away.
I think King Records kept Ballard's original in print...they were smart about that, then.
ReplyDeleteChubby Checker's re issue of "The Twist" will hit #1 on Billboard in Early '62. KFXM has the new flip side "Twistin USA" listed this week.
ReplyDeleteThe Original flip of 1960's release was called "TOOT"/