Chubby Checker - The Twist

"The Twist" is an American pop song written and originally released in 1958 by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters. Chubby Checker's 1960 cover version of the song reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 19, 1960, where it stayed for one week, and setting a record at the time as the only song to reach 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.