Peppermint Twist: The Mob, the Music, and the Most Famous Dance Club of the ’60s By Joel Selvin & John Johnson, Jr. with Dick Cami As far as dance crazes go, the Twist might go down (swiveling, of ...

John Johnson Jr. and Joel Selvin with Dick Cami. St. Martin’s/ Dunne, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-58178-7 In the years just before a new dance called the Twist turned popular music around and created ...

As the story goes, it was 1962 and I was on my high school senior trip to New York City. I had my list of things to do: See Times Square, climb the Empire State Building, have a hot dog at Yankee ...

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. The first song ...