John Johnson Jr. and Joel Selvin with Dick Cami. St. Martin’s/ Dunne, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-58178-7 In the years just before a new dance called the Twist turned popular music around and created ...

The first song to hit #1 in 1962 wasn’t a new song. It was Chubby Checker’s “The Twist,” back out of nowhere for a two-week run. Sometime between 1960, when the song came out, and 1962, when it ...

Peppermint Twist: The Mob, the Music, and the Most Famous Dance Club of the ’60s By Joel Selvin & John Johnson, Jr. with Dick Cami As far as dance crazes go, the Twist might go down (swiveling, of ...

Chubby Checker is forever immortalized in North Las Vegas on Checker Way. The street is appropriately a few blocks away from Twist Circle in a neighborhood near the corner of North Decatur Boulevard ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A former Dallas Fed president, I cover the economy. Chubby Checker, a diminutive Fats Domino, sort of, came out with “The Twist” ...