Tuesday 30 August 2011

Sam Cooke: "Twistin' the Night Away" (1962)




"Twistin' the Night Away" is a song written and recorded by Sam Cooke. It was released as a single in 1962 and became very popular, charting in the top ten of both the Billboard Hot 100 (#9) and Billboard's R&B chart (#1),. "Twistin' the Night Away" was successful overseas as well, peaking at #6 on the UK Singles Chart.

The Shins titled their third album Wincing the Night Away in an apparent reference to the song.

The song was also covered by the famous Motown group, the Marvelettes. Their version of the song appeared on the 1962 album, The Marvelettes Sing Smash Hits of 1962.

This song was covered by Hutti Heita as a dark psytrance track in 2009.

Cooke's version also appeared in the 1978 classic Animal House, the 1987 film Innerspace, and the 2011 film The Green Hornet.


- Lyrics:

Let me tell ya 'bout a place
Somewhere up a New York way
Where the People are so gay
Twistin the night away

Here they have a lot of fun
Puttin' trouble on the run
Man you find the old and young
Twistin' the night away

Twistin, twistin, twistin the night away
Everybody's feeling great
They are Twistin' twistin'
Twistin the night away

Here's a Man in evenening clothes
How he got here I don't know, but
man, you oughtta see him go
Twistin' the Night away

He's dancing with the chick in slacks
She's a-moving up and back
Oh Man, there ain't nothing like
Twistin the night away

They're twistin. twistin, twistin,
Everybody's feeling great
They're twistin, twistin
They're twistin the night away

Let's twist a while, Feet up, feet back
Watusi, now fly, now twist
They're twistin the Night away

Here's a feller in blue jeans
dancing with the older queen
who's dolled up in a diamand rings
Twistin' the night away

Man you oughtta see her go
Twistin' to the Rock and Roll
Man you find the old and young
Twistin' the night away

Let's twist a while, feet up, feet back
Watusi, ? no twist..



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