The Twist (song) with "Twist"-themed records. In the sixth episode of the second season of the TV series "Quantum Leap", entitled “Good Morning, Peoria” (set in September 9, 1959), Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) and Al Calavicci (Dean Stockwell) have a Kiss with History, meeting Chubby Checker (played by himself) in a radio station (Sam leaps into a radio DJ called Chick Howell), where they sing and dance "The Twist". An impressed Chubby asks, "Can I use that move?" Sam responds, "Yah, but I got it from you!" According to "Billboard", "The Twist" held the honor of being the number-one song on its
The Twist (song) for Faber and Faber . The song has been added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress on March 21, 2013 for long-term preservation. In 2014, "Billboard" magazine declared the song the "biggest hit" of the 1960s. In 2018, Checker's version was one of six singles inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in a new category honoring singles by artists who have not been elected to the Hall. The Twist (song) "The Twist" is an American pop song written and originally released in early 1959 (having been recorded on 11/11/1958) by Hank Ballard and