There have been twists and turns in the life of Joseph DiNicola, Jr. ever since that Sunday afternoon in October 1961 when the pint-sized kid from Passaic stepped up to the microphone in a Manhattan ...

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 ...