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 ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- When it comes to burgers, malts and car-hops, WCCO viewers picked the best locale as the Peppermint Twist, situated just 30 minutes west of the Twin Cities. And it's a good deal ...

Friday night, at the end of a long, draining day, I put on some music. Up came “The Peppermint Twist” by Joey Dee and the Starliters. I found myself enjoying it far more than usual. It’s so simple. So ...