Peppermint Twist, them Twistin Bones, and Lets Twist Again (you get. There’s nothing bad about the song, but there’s nothing that transcends its moment, either. Chubby Checker was no rock n roll pioneer or R&B innovator but he knew how. Dee sold the song with a sort of cheeseball lounge-singer charisma, and his band capably cranked behind him, swiping a generous helping of the Isley Brothers’ “Shout” in the process. It’s got energy, which is pretty much all it needs. “Peppermint Twist – Part 1” is perfectly acceptable dance-craze music. In 1961, they starred as themselves in a teensploitation biopic called Hey, Let’s Twist! (It has an amazing trailer.) And in 1962, they managed to hit #1 with a fairly generic two-minute dance song that sold itself by mentioning the Peppermint Lounge whenever possible. Joey Dee And The Starliters did everything they could to capitalize on this passing national fascination with their place of work. And its house band was a group of New Jersey kids who called themselves Joey Dee And The Starliters. (In 1986, more than two decades after the club shut down, Ianniello went to prison for embezzling money from the Peppermint Lounge and a few other places.) The Peppermint Lounge, known as the Temple Of Twist, was the Studio 54 of its day. Chubby Checker was one of the many artists to emerge from the burgeoning rock n roll scene in Philadelphia during. Judy Garland and John Wayne and Truman Capote and, eventually, the Beatles all visited this New York club, a former gay bar run by a Mafia captain named Matty “The Horse” Ianniello. Checker made various records that promoted the dance, or maybe the dance promoted the records They included Lets Do the Twist, Peppermint Twist, Lets. A lot of that had to do with the Peppermint Lounge, a New York nightclub where celebrities went to twist. Sometime between 1960, when the song came out, and 1962, when it reascended the charts, twisting went through a sort of revival to become a national phenomenon. It was Chubby Checker’s “ The Twist,” back out of nowhere for a two-week run. The Twist became extremely popular after Chubby Checker danced the Twist while singing the. Joey Dee & the Starliters were on stage, and the young, raucous crowd was doing the Twist, the dance craze popularized by Chubby Checkers 1960 number-one. The first song to hit #1 in 1962 wasn’t a new song. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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