[Dixielandjazz] Chubby Checker was It's Trad, Dad.

[David Richoux]

There were quite a few "[OKOM] with a Twist" records made to cash in  
on that dance craze - I have several and have seen a few more.  
Probably the strangest one was by The Carpetbaggers: "Dixieland ...  
with a Twist" that had real printed burlap cloth on the jacket cover.  
Copies show up on eBay every once in a while. Musically, it was more  
for novelty than anything else, IMO ;-)  http://tinyurl.com/4xdzdg

Dave Richoux


On Apr 12, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Marek Boym wrote:

> During the twist craze, Ray Bryant issued an excellent - swinging -
> record "Dancing the Big Twist," with Joe Newman and Pat Jenkins (tpt),
> Buddy Tate (ten), Matthew Gee (tbn), bryant on piano, Jimmy Rowser
> (bass) and Mickey Roker (dms) on seven of the eight tracks; the other
> track - "Fast Twist," had Harry Edison on trumpet, Ben Richardson
> (bar), Bryant, Bill Lee (bass), Gus Johnson (dms) and Ray Barretto
> (percussion and scraper, whatever the latter means).
> Cheers
>
> On 12/04/2008, Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Poor Chubby Checker is taking a beating on the DJML. What's wrong  
>> with dance
>> music? <grin>
>>
>> Our bass player Ace Tesone was on Chubby's record of Let's Twist  
>> Again. He
>> earned a fair piece of change playing with Checker when jazz work  
>> slowed.
>> Every once in a while Ace gets a residual check because of that  
>> record. When
>> he does, he asks us to do a Dixieland version.
>>
>> And why not?  It can be swung.
>>
>> Chubby Checker is a Philadelphia area guy and we all love him here.
>>
>>