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
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