| "Let's Twist Again" | ||||
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| Single by Chubby Checker | ||||
| from the album Let's Twist Again | ||||
| B-side | "Everything's Gonna' Be All Right" | |||
| Released | June 19, 1961 | |||
| Genre | Rock and roll | |||
| Length | 2:16 | |||
| Label | Parkway 824n | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Kal Mann, Dave Appell | |||
| Producer(s) | Kal Mann | |||
| Chubby Checker singles chronology | ||||
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"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 UK in the spring of 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.[1]
- ^ "The Help (Music From the Motion Picture)". Amazon. July 26, 2011. Retrieved January 30, 2012.