Chubby Checker the Peppermint Lounge and American Bandstand would make this dance the most popular dance in the World by 1960. The Twist was basically a twisting motion back and forth with the hips. Unfortunately, the twist was also associated to racism, payola, copyright infringement and the Mafia.
What was leading the way for dances like the Twist you ask, the answer is "the Television and SAND." Surfing was becoming extremely popular with the young and sand was replacing the dance floors. This sand
Don't Knock The Twist
Let's Twist Again
Congo Twist (Revels)
Beach Blanket Bingo
Lose Your Inhibitions Twist
$ Hey Let's Twist (Dee)
Beat Generation, the
Twist Around the Clock
Let's Twist a la Paloma
Bikini Beach
1959 - The Twist (1 & 2)
$ Let's Twist Again
Elvis Posters
Let's twist - Let's Twist - Let's Twist,
Hairspray
$ Mr. Twister (Shirelles)
Hullabaloo
$ Peppermint Twist (1&2) (Dee)
$ Rubberleg Twist (Isley)
$ Slow Twistin' (Chubby)
Teach Me To Twist
$ Texas Twist (Chubby)
The Fly, The Jet, The Mess-Around
$ The Twist (Chubby)
Twist Along
$ Twist and Shout (Isley)
$ Twist It Up (Chubby)
Twist Mit Mir
$ Twist A St-Tropez
Twistin' U.S.A.
Your Lips & Mine
Grecian Village Twist (Chicago)
Los Angeles
Lemon Twist West (Chicago)
New York
Lu Lu's (Ontario)
Paris, France
Mecca Nightclub (Rome & NY)
Rome
Peppermint Lounge
Starliter Club (di Niciola's /Dee)
The Roxy
Whisky-A-GO-GO
1961 - Continental Twist
American Bandstand
1961 - Hey Let's Twist
Clay Cole Show (1963)
$ 1961 - Twist Around The Clock (rare Video)
Dick Clark Show
1961 - Twist Craze
Hulabaloo
10/21/1961 - Fox Movietone #169-520
Laugh-In
1962 - a Ritmo de twist
Ready, Steady, Go! (1959-1962)
11/1960 - Dig Magazine
1962 - Canzoni a tempo di twist
Rate the Records
1962 - Dell Comics "The Twist"
1962 - Don't Knock The Twist
Shindig!
1962 - Sepia Magazine
1962 - Twist Again
12/1964 - Look Magazine
1962 - Twist All Night (Louis Prima)
10/7/1963 - Fox-Movietone #189-39
1964 - T.A.M.I. Show (w/ Teri Garr & Tony Basil)
1965-69 - 20th Century News Reel (GoGo Girls)
1975 - Folies bourgeoisie's
$ 1988 - Hairspray [DVD]
$ 1993 - Twist ( Mann Docu) [DVD]
$1960s Fashions
The Twist
$ 1995 - History of R&R: Good Rockin' Tonight
Live with Chubby Checker [DVD?]
$ History of Rock and Roll V2 [DVD]
Bunny Hop
Hitchhiker (Popeye)
Mashed Potato
Slop, the
Bossa Nova
Hucklebuck, the
Mess Around, the
Stroll
Bug, The
Hully Gully
Monkey, the
Surf, the
Calypso
Jelly Fish, the
Mule, the
Surfer Stomp
Cha Cha
Jerk, the
Pony, the
Swim, the
Elephant, the (Arm makes a Trunk)
Limbo, the
Potato, the
Swing dance
Fly, the
Locomotion
Roach, the
Waddle
Freddie, the
Madison
Rock and Roll
Watusi
Frug, the
Mambo
Shimmy / The Shake
Ann Margaret
Harold Belfor (chorg)
Alan Freed
Cholly Atkins
Kenny Wetzel
Bruce Morrow
Chubby Checker
'Killer Joe' Piro
Clay Cole
Clay Cole w/ Vickie Spencer [TV Host]
Larry Vernieri
Dan Daniel
David Brigati
Paul Anka
Dick Clark
Earl Barton (Choreo.)
The Parkettes
Jocko Henderson
Elvis Presley
Toni Basil
Hal Jackson
Murray the K
Wolfman Jack
Ballrooms