Chubby Checker

Let's Twist Again + It's Pony Time + 6 Bonus (263501)

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Let's Twist Again + It's Pony Time + 6 Bonus

Chubby Checker

Hoo Doo Records

8436542017534

HOO 144552

263501

RHYTHM AND BLUES

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CD 9,95 €

2 LPs ON 1 CD

INCLUDES 6 BONUS TRACKS

Chubby Checker was the unrivaled king of the rock & roll dance craze. Although most of the dances his records promoted – the Pony, the Fly, and the Hucklebuck, to mention just three – have long since faded into obscurity, his most famous hit, “The Twist”, remains the yardstick against which all subsequent dance floor phenomena are measured.

This quintessential edition includes two of his finest LPs: the celebrated Let’s Twist Again, and It’s Pony Time. Both albums were released in 1961 by the Parkway label, and have been remastered and packaged together in this very special collector’s edition, which also contains 6 bonus tracks from the same period. Naturally, the hit “Let’s Twist Again” is here, as are some of the singer's follow-up smashes (“Pony Time”, “Ballin’ the Jack”, “The Mess Around”, etc.), and a host of other dance-craze numbers.

PERSONNEL:

CHUBBY CHECKER, lead vocals, plus:

Buddy Savitt, Georgie Young (saxophone),
Dave Appell, Joe Renzetti (guitar), Joe Sher (guitar and drums),
Joe Macho (bass), Fred Bender (keyboards), among others.

Recorded in New York and Philadelphia, between 1960 and 1961.
Original recordings produced by Kal Mann.

INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

TRACKS:

LET’S TWIST AGAIN
01. I COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT
02. THE JET
03. CONTINENTAL WALK
04. I ALMOST LOST MY MIND
05. FISHIN’
06. QUARTER TO THREE
07. LET’S TWIST AGAIN
08. BALLIN’ THE JACK
09. PEANUT BUTTER
10. THE RAY CHARLES-TON
11. TAKES TWO TO TANGO
12. DANCE-A-LONG

IT’S PONY TIME
13. PONY TIME
14. THE WATUSI
15. THE HULLY GULLY
16. THE STROLL
17. THE MASHED POTATOES
18. HI HO SILVER
19. WE LIKE BIRDLAND
20. LET’S DANCE, LET’S DANCE, LET’S DANCE
21. THE SHIMMY
22. THE CHARLESTON
23. THE MESS AROUND
24. PONY EXPRESS

BONUS TRACKS
25. DANCIN’ PARTY
26. THE FLY
27. TOOT
28. POPEYE (THE HITCH HIKER)
29. SLOW TWISTIN’
30. SIDE BY SIDE