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Dance Craze

1960-62; rise of the Discotheque

The Twist - Chubby Checker (1960)
(video starts with Ben E. King)

any moderately uptempo song could be "twisted" to!

Let's Twist Again - Chubby Checker

The Fish - Bobby Rydell (1961)
The Mashed Potato - Dee Dee Sharp (1962)
The Loco-motion - Little Eva (1962)
The Hitch Hike - Marvin Gaye (1963)
Do the Clam - Elvis Presley (1965)
Do the Freddie - Freddie & the Dreamers (1965)
The Jerk - The Larks (1965)
The Shake - Sam Cooke (1965)

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