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 Frogs Who Desired a King musing on his ineffective reign, gradually illustrating that his inertia hid not harmlessness, but a corrupt selfishness. Two modern poetical references are dismissive. Thom Gunn alludes to the fable in the opening stanzas of his poem "The Court Revolt". The situation described is a conspiracy in which many courtiers connive out of sheer boredom: 'King stork was welcome to replace a log'. New Zealand poet James K. Baxter, on the other hand, expresses a preference in his epigram "Election 1960": <poem> A democratic people have elected King Log, King Stork, King Log, King Stork again. Because I like a wide