You Can't Sit Down: Cameo Parkway Dance Crazes

UMC

Funk/Soul Compilations

2×LP (Coloured Vinyl) 7187791

Limited coloured vinyl edition

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Tracklist

1 Chubby Checker – The Twist

2 The Orlons – The Wah-Watusi

3 The Dovells – Bristol Stomp

4 Dee Dee Sharp – Mashed Potato Time

5 The Dovells – You Can’t Sit Down

6 Bobby Rydell – The Third House (In From The Right)

7 Dee Dee Sharp – Do The Bird

8 Chubby Checker / Dee Dee Sharp – Slow Twistin’

9 The Orlons – Shimmy Shimmy

10 Candy & The Kisses – The 81

11 The Marlins – (Everybody Do) The Swim (Part 1)

12 Don Covay – The Popeye Waddle

13 The Dovells – Do The New Continental

14 The Dardenelles Featuring Little Bo – Baby, Do The Froog

15 The Applejacks – Rocka-Conga

16 Chubby Checker – The Hucklebuck

17 Tony Young & The Hippies – The Mash

18 The Applejacks – Mexican Hat Rock

19 Bobby Rydell – The Cha-Cha-Cha

20 The Turbans – When You Dance

21 The Taffys – Everybody South Street

22 Chubby Checker – Twistin’ USA

22-track collection containing some of the biggest dance craze hits from the Philadelphia label that got the world dancing in the early 1960sIncludes tracks by Cameo Parkway’s biggest stars: Chubby Checker, Bobby Rydell, Dee Dee Sharp, The Orlons and The Dovells as well as R&B greats Don Covay and The Turbans. Twelve Top 40 hits including three number 1 chart toppers! Chubby Checker’s original hit version of “The Twist,” which has the distinction of being the only single of the rock era to reach number 1 twice in two consecutive years, is included. Features an essay by acclaimed rock & roll and R&B historian John Broven.