The Twist (song) number 1 in two different hit parade runs when it resurfaced and topped the popular hit parade again for two weeks starting on January 13, 1962. In 1988, "The Twist" again became popular due to a new recording of the song by The Fat Boys featuring Chubby Checker. This version reached number 2 in the United Kingdom and number 1 in Germany. In 2014, "Billboard" magazine declared the song the "biggest hit" of the 1960s. Songs about doing the Twist went back to nineteenth-century minstrelsy, including "Grape Vine Twist" from around 1844. In 1938 Jelly Roll Morton, in "Winin' Boy
The King Brothers the UK Singles Chart was their cover of "A White Sport Coat", which hit #6 in 1957. In October 1960, they were again voted "top vocal group" in the "NME" reader's poll. They had a string of successful singles through 1961, after which time they continued recording but found their popularity waning. Group leader Denis King later became an award-winning composer for television, film, and musicals; among other things, he wrote the theme music for "The Adventures of Black Beauty" and "Lovejoy". The King Brothers The King Brothers were a British pop vocal trio popular in the late 1950s and