The dance craze known as the twist seemed to take over the music world for a few years. When Hank Ballard wrote “The Twist” and put it out as the B-side of “Teardrops on Your Letter” in 1959, it was the beginning of an international wave of releases topped by Chubby Checker’s string of hits […]
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