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"The Twist" Ruled The Music World (Again) 50 Years Ago

Jan 16, 1:29am Music @ Blogcritics.org
Once Chubby Checker performed his version on American Bandstand, the rest was history.
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Curious Germany Vol. 4

Jan 11, 6:12pm Any Major Dude With Half A Heart
Curious Germany Vol. 4 We haven't had German curiosities for a while. Well, here are some: Marlene Dietrich singing a folk anthem, Bowie going to Berlin, a Schlager icon rocking out for peace, a short-haired teen doing Be My Baby, Chubby Checker twisten in Deutsch , and a politician getting remixed. * * * Marlene Dietrich – Sag' mir wo die Blumen sind (1962).mp3 The Springfields - Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind (1963).mp3 While Mae West [...]
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Music Review: Various Artists - Cameo Parkway: Holiday Hits

Dec 14, 2011, 10:51am Music @ Blogcritics.org
Holiday gems from the Cameo-Parkway label archives.
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Come on and do the fly with me

Nov 22, 2011, 7:44am Diddy Wah
Come on and do the fly with me mp3: Chubby Checker - The Fly Here's one from Hairspray, the 1988 John Waters original version. The Fly was released in 1962, around the time Chubby Checker's uber-hit, The Twist, entered and then topped the charts for a second time as the twisting dance craze got crazy again after it's initial burst in 1960. I just learned that Checker's name, it's a stage name, is a play on words of Fats Domino. Wow! Anyway, I dig this tune for the buzz and the drums. Enjoy.
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Artist:Chubby Checker
Title:The Fly
Link Text:Chubby Checker - The Fly
File Name:Chubby Checker - The Fly.mp3
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Birdyland: Chubby Checker

Jul 24, 2011, 1:21pm Keep the Coffee Coming
This is from an album called Chubby Checker Classics. I also have another song called Birdland, and they are slightly different.
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Artist:Chubby Checker
Title:Birdyland
Link Text:Stream
File Name:chubby-checker_13_birdyland.mp 3
Bitrate:206 kbps
Genre:Electronic
Year:2003

Bodies of Water :: Twist Again

Jul 5, 2011, 9:48am Everybody Taste
Bodies of Water :: Twist Again Los Angeles husband and wife duo Bodies of Water released their third LP together, Twist Again , this past July on their own Thousand Tongues label. David and Meredith Metcalf's music is a sophisticated and classic brand of pop colored with bursts of organ, brass, strings, well-positioned punches of electric guitar, and the couple's own charming vocal harmonies. Despite the LP's Chubby Checker reference, you'll be hard-pressed to find any listeners Twisting to the darkly meditative "One Hand Loves The Other" or the soft psychedelia of "Open Rhythms." But that's not to say these songs [...]
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Link Text:"Like A Stranger"
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Artist:Bodies Of Water
Title:Open Rhythms
Link Text:"Open Rhythms"
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Genre:Pop
Year:2011

Chequered!

Apr 17, 2011, 6:22pm Scottish Friction
Chequered! For more info on this Hendrix-inspired stonker, see here . Listen : Chubby Checker - Gypsy ← ♥♥♥♥ (1973) Preview these tracks and give some ♥♥♥ s on Hype Machine ! Add Scottish Friction to your Google Reader !
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The Originals Vol. 41

Apr 13, 2011, 6:38pm Any Major Dude With Half A Heart
The Originals Vol. 41 Following on from the post about rock & roll in A History of Country Vol. 8, here are three originals of rock & roll classics. Incidentally, I might have used in the past images from www.originalsproject.us , which I would have sourced elsewhere. Indeed, the image that accompanies the original for Blueberry Hill, which I found on another site, is from that brilliant site. * * * Swing And Sway With Sammy Kaye - Blueberry Hill (1940).mp3 Glenn Miller and his Orchestra [...]
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Link Text:Hank Ballard & the Midnighters – The Twist (1959).mp3
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Link Text:Sonny West – All My Love (Oh Boy) (1957).mp3
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Link Text:Sonny West – Rave On (1957).mp3
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CHUBBY CHECKER "Goodbye Victoria"

Mar 26, 2011, 12:19pm Jumble Pusher
Chubby Checker - Goodbye Victoria
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Artist:Chubby Checker
Title:Chubby Checker - Goodbye Victoria
Link Text:Chubby Checker - Goodbye Victoria
File Name:Chubby Checker - Goodbye Victoria.mp3
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Dance Moves: The Stroll, The Twist, The Limbo Rock, and The Cool Jerk

Mar 10, 2011, 9:30pm Star Maker Machine
Dance Moves: The Stroll, The Twist, The Limbo Rock, and The Cool Jerk The Diamonds : The Stroll (1958) [ purchase ] Chubby Checker : The Twist (1960) [ purchase ] Chubby Checker : The Limbo Rock (1962) [ purchase ] The Capitals : Cool Jerk (1966) [ purchase ] I know a few weeks ago, I opined that SMM wasn't meant to be the definitive resource [...]
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Link Text:Chubby Checker: The Limbo Rock
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Link Text:Chubby Checker: The Twist
File Name:Chubby Checker - The Twist.mp3
Link Text:The Capitals: Cool Jerk
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Link Text:The Diamonds: The Stroll
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Chubby Checker Was Number One 50 Years Ago

Mar 4, 2011, 8:44am Music @ Blogcritics.org
Saddle Up; it's Pony Time!
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Chubby Checker: It's Pony Time / Let's Twist Again (Reviews)

Mar 4, 2011, 2:00am PopMatters
chubby checker & dee dee sharp "slow twist" 1962
Chubby Checker was no rock 'n' roll pioneer or R&B innovator, but a great number of these fun songs have stood the test of time and are worth forming a "big boss line" for. Chubby Checker was no rock 'n' roll pioneer or R&B innovator but he knew how to have fun singing about dancing apart to the beat. With a little help from locally based hitmaker Dick Clark and his nationwide television show American Bandstand, the 17-year-old former chicken plucker from Philadelphia recorded a virtual carbon copy of Hank Ballard and the Midnighters' '58 B-side "The Twist" and [...]
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Chubby Checker's long-lost "psychedelic" album

Feb 9, 2011, 1:37pm The Key
A "new" old album by Chubby Checker , the legendary King Of The Twist, has been making the rounds on the Internet. Recorded back in 1971—when Checker was living in Holland—it has historically been referred to as his "psychedelic" album. Indeed, it's a collection of psychedelic rock and funky/bluesy soul songs that brings to mind the work of Arthur Lee, Eric Burdon And War, and Shuggie Otis. When it came out in 1971 on the London label in the UK, it was originally called Chequered ; subsequent vinyl releases [...]
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Chubby Checker :: Holland Sessions, 1971

Feb 8, 2011, 5:43pm An Aquarium Drunkard
Cut in Holland in '71, and touted as Chubby Checker's 'psychedelic' record, I grabbed this on a lark over at the Twilight Zone expecting (if nothing else) an interesting look at Checker's later work. What I found ended up on repeat for days. Dump your preconceptions-forget "The Twist" and listen to the session's first track, [...]
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Artist:Chubby Checker
Title:Goodbye Victoria
Link Text:Chubby Checker :: Goodbye Victoria
File Name:01 Goodbye Victoria.mp3
Year:1971

Chubby Checker: Chequered! (New Revelation)

Dec 4, 2010, 2:01pm Hyperbolium
Chubby Checker: Chequered! (New Revelation) The King of the Twist gets his soul heavily psyched Given the height of Chubby Checker's fame (his signature recording of Hank Ballard's "The Twist" being the only single to top the chart on two separate occasions), his Q rating must have really sunk by 1971 to keep this album so deeply buried. Seven years after the last Top 40 singles of his major run (1964's folk-rock limbo Lazy Elsie Molly and the 1965 Freddie and the Dreamers knock-off Let's Do the Freddie ), Checker waxed this one-off album of psychedelic [...]
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Artist:Chubby Checker
Title:Lazy Elsie Molly
Link Text:Lazy Elsie Molly
File Name:Lazy Elsie Molly.mp3
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Artist:Chubby Checker
Title:Let's Do The Freddie
Link Text:Let's Do the Freddie
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Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:1965

The Twist Hit Number One 50 Years Ago This Week

Sep 25, 2010, 6:04pm Music @ Blogcritics.org
Fifty years ago everybody was twisting. Twist - Music - Arts - Chubby Checker - Arts and Entertainment
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Music DVD Review: America's Music Legacy: Rock 'n Roll

Sep 15, 2010, 9:30pm Music @ Blogcritics.org
Nostalgic rock and roll concert features fifties legends. Rock and roll - Music - Arts - DVD - Shopping
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Damien Jurado, Richard Swift Release Covers Collection

Aug 31, 2010, 3:00pm BUZZGRINDER
It looks like the collaboration between Damien Jurado and Richard Swift is going beyond just one studio album. And from the looks of things, it'll be going beyond this volume of covers the duo just posted on their new Tumblr . Other People's Songs Vol. 1 was recorded on the spot by Jurado and Swift over a weekend, and it includes tracks from sources as disparate as Yes , John Denver , Kraftwerk and Chubby Checker [...]
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Music Review: New Latin Quarter Presents The Jazz & Blues Collection Volume I

Aug 12, 2010, 5:54am Music @ Blogcritics.org
Basin Street is the street where the elite always meet -- but not in Japan. It's the New Latin Quarter! Latin Quarter Paris - Paris - Latin - France - Ile-de-France
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame could change induction criteria to suit bigger acts

Jan 7, 2010, 9:56am Consequence Of Sound
Solo artists and bands that get voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are usually legends, the kings and queens of popular music that generations of fans have grown up with. And while acts like Bob Dylan and The Beatles already call the hall home, it seems as if we're running out of iconic stars as the organizers behind the hall are talking changing the biggest entrance criteria. According to Showbiz411.com (via Spinner ), Jann Wenner (who heads the hall when he isn't busy running Rolling Stone ) wants [...]
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