Twist and Shout

Twist and Shout is a standard of the rock'n'roll and Rhythm and blues, which was in particular interpreted by the Isley Brothers and the Beatles.

Original version

The song is written in 1961 by Phil Medley and Bert Berns, under the pseudonym of Bert Russel. It is recorded by the vocal group The Top Notes, under the direction of Phil Spector, which did not invent yet its famous “Mur of sound”. The disc meets little echo.

The following year, Bert Berns entrusts the song to the group of rhythm & blues The Isley Brothers, and decides this time to produce it itself. This version gains one big hit. It is classified n°2 charts R&B with the the United States, and n°17 of the charts pop It is the first tube of Isley Brothers.

The Beatles

Fab Four decide to take again Twist & Shout for their first album Please Please Me . The recording takes place in the studios of Abbey Road the February 11th 1963. It is John Lennon which sings. Captured at the end of the meeting which lasted more than nine hours, this version is very Rock “roll, as they were accustomed to playing it in their concerts.

The album leaves to the the United Kingdom the April 26th 1963. The song is reproduced also on the American version Introducing… The Beatles appeared the July 22nd 1963. And one still finds it on a EP English published the July 12th precisely entitled Twist And Shout .

An interpretation as a public of Twist and Shout remained very famous. November 4th, 1963, the four musicians of Liverpool occur in front of the royal family with Prince off Wales Theater of London for the Royal Command Performance, where a John Lennon, disrespectful, lance this title in the following way: “One the next number, would those in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest off you, yew you' L just rattle your jewelry! /For our next title, can the people installed in the least expensive places type in their hands? And all the others, agitate your jewels! ”

The March 2nd 1964, the song is published in individual in the United States by the label Vee Jay. It is classified in the second place of the American Hit-parade the April 4th, just behind Can' T Buy Coils Me.

Recoveries

Following this success, the song was the subject of a great number of recoveries. Brian Poole and the Tremeloes (group signed by Decca in the place of Beatles) records a version of it four months after the band of Liverpool. This one is classified with the 4ère place of the English charts.

The Kinks or Bruce Springsteen often interpreted it on scene. The Troggs recorded it on a Medley with Louie Louie and Hang one Sloopy .

Johnny Rivers recorded the medley Bamba /Twist And Shout ; Twist And Shout resembles besides much the version of Ritchie Valens.

One finds of them also versions by The Shangri-Mow, Ike & Tina Turner, Billy Lee Riley, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Jack Nitzsche, Salt-N-Pepa, Chaka Demus & Pliers, etc

It was adapted in French by Sylvie Vartan in 1963 pennies the title Twiste and sings . The english language version was taken again in particular by Dick Rivers and Matmatah. Bidochons made a parody entitled of it Triste Cat .

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