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Twist and Shout

"Twist and Shout"
Twist and Shout by The Top Notes B-side US vinyl label.jpg
B-side label of the US vinyl release
Single by The Top Notes
A-side "Always Late (Why Lead Me On)"
Released 1961
Format 7" single
Recorded Atlantic Studios, New York, February 23, 1961
Genre Rock and roll, R&B
Length 2:05
Label Atlantic 45-2115
Writer(s) Bert Berns, Phil Medley
Producer(s) Phil Spector
The Top Notes singles chronology
"Hearts of Stone"
(1961)
"Twist and Shout"
(1961)
"Wait For Me Baby"
(1962)
"Twist and Shout"
Twist and Shout by The Isley Brothers US vinyl 1962.jpg
A-side label of the US vinyl single
Single by The Isley Brothers
B-side "Spanish Twist"
Released June 16, 1962
Format 7" single
Recorded New York, 1962
Genre Rock and roll, R&B
Length 2:27
Label Wand 653
Writer(s) Phil Medley, Bert Russell
Producer(s) Bert Russell
The Isley Brothers singles chronology
"Shout"
(1962 reissue)
"Twist and Shout"
(1962)
"Twistin' With Linda"
(1962)
"Twist and Shout"
Song by the Beatles from the album Please Please Me
Released March 22, 1963
Recorded February 11, 1963, EMI Studios, London
Genre Rock and roll
Length 2:32
Label Parlophone
Writer(s) Phil Medley, Bert Russell
Producer(s) George Martin
"Twist and Shout"
Twist and Shout - Beatles (single).jpg
Single by The Beatles
from the album Introducing... The Beatles
B-side "There's a Place"
Released March 2, 1964
Genre Rock and roll
Label
Writer(s) Phil Medley, Bert Russell
Producer(s) George Martin
The Beatles US singles chronology
"I Want to Hold Your Hand"
(1963)
"Twist and Shout"
(1964)
"Can't Buy Me Love"
(1964)
TheBeatles UK singles chronology
"The Beatles Movie Medley"
(1982)
"Twist and Shout"
(1986)
"Baby It's You"
(1995)
"Twist & Shout"
Single by The Who
from the album The Isle of Wight Festival and Who's Last
B-side "I Can't Explain"
Released 1970 and November 1984
Format 7"
Recorded December 17, 1982
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Canada
Genre Rock
Label MCA Records
Writer(s) Phil Medley and Bertrand Russell Berns
Producer(s) David "Cyrano" Langston
The Who singles chronology
"It's Hard"
(1982)
"Twist and Shout (live)"
(1984)
"Real Good Looking Boy"
(2004)

"Twist and Shout" is a 1961 song written by Phil Medley and Bert Berns (later credited as "Bert Russell"). The song was originally recorded by The Top Notes. It first became a chart hit as a cover single by the Isley Brothers in 1962. The song has since been covered by several artists, including the Beatles on their first album Please Please Me (1963), as well as the Tremeloes in 1962 and the Who in 1970 and 1984.

In 1961, one year after Phil Spector became a staff producer at Atlantic Records, he was asked to produce a single by an up-and-coming vocal group, The Top Notes. This was before Spector perfected his "Wall of Sound" technique, and the recording, at the Atlantic Studios on February 23, 1961, arranged by Teddy Randazzo with musicians including saxophonist King Curtis, guitarist John Pizzarelli, and drummer Panama Francis, with backing vocals by the Cookies, lacked much of the energy the Top Notes exhibited in their live performances.

The Top Notes included singers Howard "Howie" Guyton (also known as Guy Howard), a cousin of Dave "Baby" Cortez; and Derek Martin, also known as Derek Ray. Guyton provided the lead vocals on "Twist and Shout". Guyton, Martin and Cortez had previously all been members of vocal groups the Pearls (also known as the Five Pearls) in their home city of Detroit, and then of the Sheiks in New York; and Guyton and Martin later recorded as members of Jimmy Ricks & the Raves. Derek Martin later recorded a succession of singles, mostly on the Roulette label, in the 1960s and early 1970s, including a version of Otis Blackwell's "Daddy Rollin' Stone", before moving to live in France where he has continued to perform. Guyton later sang in a touring version of the Platters, and died of a heart attack in 1977, aged 39, while touring in Argentina.


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