Let's Twist Again Let's Twist Again "Let's Twist Again" is a song written by Kal Mann and Dave Appell, and released as a single by Chubby Checker. One of the biggest hit singles of 1961, it reached No.8 on the U.S. "Billboard" pop chart (No.3 on Cash Box) in August of that year and subsequently reached No.2 in the U.K. in February 1962. The song refers to the Twist dance craze and Checker's 1960 single "The Twist", a two-time U.S. No.1 single (in September 1960 and again in January 1962 on re-release). The song received the 1962 Grammy Award for Best Rock &
The Drama of King Shotaway The Drama of King Shotaway The Drama of King Shotaway, founded on Facts taken from the Insurrection of the Caravs on the Island of St. Vincent, written from Experience by Mr. Brown (1823) was a play believed to be by William Henry Brown. This was the first known play by a black playwright in the United States. No known copies of the play exist. Brown, who founded the African Theatre in the 1820s, was from the West Indies and became established in New York. He was both a playwright and the proprietor of the African Grove Theatre, which produced the