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    You Can't Sit Down: Cameo Parkway Dance CrazesVarious Artists

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      • 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.

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