Music history of the United States in the 1960s and symphonic music, is often taken as the key recording in progressive rock, helping the widespread adoption of the genre in the early 1970s among existing blues rock and psychedelic bands, as well as newly formed acts. Chubby Checker during the early 1960s popularizes the enduring dance craze The Twist with his hit cover of Hank Ballard's R&B hit "The Twist". Gerry Goffin and Carole King become a very influential duo in pop music, writing numerous number one hits including the first song to ever reach number one by a girl group, The Shirelles "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" and
Do the Twist (Connie Francis album) but this was abandoned due to delays in the busy recording schedule. "Gonna Git That Man" was released in April 1962 as the flipside to Francis' single "Second Hand Love" (MGM Records K 13074, # 9) and later on the compilation Album "Connie Francis sings "Second Hand Love"" (MGM Records E-/SE-4049) The remaining songs "Love Bird", "Cha Cha Twist", "Lovey Dovey Twist" (loosely based on Eddie Curtis's 1954 composition "Lovey Dovey") and an alternate version of "Mr. Twister" wouldn't be released until 1996. Do the Twist (Connie Francis album) Do the Twist! is a studio album recorded in late 1961/early