Let's Twist Again

Album

Let's Twist Again

Label

Parkway Records

Genre

Rock & Roll

Composer(s)

Kal Mann;Dave Appell

Entered Chart

Jun 19, 1961

Peak Date

Aug 7, 1961

Released

September 1961

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Parkway 824

B-Side

Everything's Gonna Be All Right

"Let's Twist Again" is a song written by Kal Mann and Dave Appell, and released as a single by Chubby Checker. One of the biggest hit singles of 1961, it reached No.8 on the U.S. Billboard pop chart (No.3 on Cash Box) in August of that year and subsequently reached No.2 in the UK in the spring of 1962. The song refers to the Twist dance craze and Checker's 1960 single "The Twist", a two-time U.S. No.1 single (in September 1960 and again in January 1962 on re-release). The song received the 1962 Grammy Award for Best Rock & Roll Recording. Checker also recorded the song in German as "Der Twist Beginnt" and in Italian as "Balliamo il Twist". A sample of "Der Twist Beginnt" would later be used by The Residents to begin their 1976 album The Third Reich 'n Roll. The song appears on the soundtrack of the 2011 film The Help.

[Intro]
Come on, everybody
Clap your hands
Aw, you're lookin' good
I'm gonna sing my song
It won't take long
We're gonna do the Twist
And it goes like this

[Verse]
Come on, let's Twist again like we did last summer
Yeah, let's Twist again like we did last year
Do you remember when things were really hummin'?
Yeah, let's Twist again, Twistin' time is here

[Pre-Chorus]
Hee-ah, 'round and 'round and up and down we go again
Oh, baby, make me know you love me so and then

[Chorus]
Twist again like we did last summer
Come on, Twist again like we did last year
Twist, yeow!

[Saxophone Solo}
(Bop! Bop!
Bop! Bop!
Bop! Bop!
Ooh, bop!)
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[Bridge]
Who's that flyin' up there?
Is it a bird? (No!)
Is it a plane? (No!)
Is it the twister? (Yeah!)
Yeah!

[Verse]
Twist again, like we did last summer
Come on, let's Twist again like we did last year
Do you remember when things were really hummin'?
Come on, let's Twist again, Twistin' time is here

[Pre-Chorus]
Hee-ah, 'round and 'round and up and down we go again
Oh, baby, make me know you love me so and then

[Chorus]
Come on, Twist again like we did last summer
Girl, let's Twist again like we did last year

{Outro]
Come on, Twist again
Twistin' time is here (Bop! Bop!)