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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...