Do the Twist (Connie Francis album) title "Dance Party". The album's opening track, "Mr. Twister" (not to be confused with the Chubby Checker song of the same name), was released in several territories outside the U. S. as a 45 rpm single. Francis herself recorded the song also in Italian, French, Japanese and Spanish. It is also one of only two songs Francis ever recorded in Swedish. "Kiss 'n' Twist (Kissin' Twist)", with a tune based on the traditional Italian dance Tarantella and lyrics provided by Mike Canosa and Danny Stradella, was also released as a 45 rpm single in several territories. Additionally, Francis recorded a
The Twist (song) "Hot 100 50th Anniversary" list of "The "Billboard" All-Time Hot 100 Top Songs in the first 50 years of the Hot 100 chart. It has retained this honor in re-tabulated lists released by "Billboard" in 2013, 2015 and for the "Hot 100 60th Anniversary" chart of "Billboard"s All-Time Hot 100 Top 600 Songs. The song is ranked number 451 on the "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Jim Dawson wrote a 1995 book about the song and the Twist phenomenon called "The Twist: The Story of the Song and Dance That Changed the World"