The Twist Chubby Checker American Bandstand Dance Craze

The Twist is an American pop song written and originally released in 1958 by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters as a Bside to Teardrops on Your It was inspired by the twist dance craze. Ballard s version was a moderate hit, peaking at number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 in On the US Billboard Hot R B Sides chart, the original version of The Twist first peaked at number sixteen in 1959 and at number six in Chubby Checker s 1960 cover version of the song reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 19, 1960, where it stayed for one week, and setting a record at the time as the only song to reach number 1 in two different hit parade runs when it resurfaced and topped the popular hit parade again for two weeks starting on January 13, This would not happen for another song for nearly 59 years until December 2020, when Mariah Carey s All I Want for Christmas Is You reached the summit after previously top