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  • Twistin' The Night Away
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  • CD single
  • Maxi single
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  • eng
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  • 1961 songs
  • 1985 singles
  • 1973 singles
  • 1962 singles
  • 1987 singles
  • Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one singles
  • RCA Victor singles
  • Rod Stewart songs
  • Sam Cooke songs
  • Song recordings produced by Hugo & Luigi
  • Songs written by Sam Cooke
  • Divine (performer) songs
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  • %22Twistin' the Night Away%22 is a song written and recorded by Sam Cooke. It was released as a single in 1962 and became very popular, charting in the top ten of both the Billboard Hot 100 (#9) and Billboard's R&B chart (#1). %22Twistin' the Night Away%22 was successful overseas as well, peaking at #6 on the UK Singles Chart.The song was recorded with The Wrecking Crew as session musicians, including Rene Hall as band leader, Red Callender on bass, Earl Palmer on drums, Tommy Tedesco and Clifton White on guitars, Ed Beal on piano, John Kelson, John Ewing and Jewell Grant on saxophone and Stuart Williamson on trumpet.The Shins titled their third album Wincing the Night Away in an apparent reference to the song.The song was also covered by the Motown group, the Marvelettes. Their version of the song appeared on the 1962 album, The Marvelettes Sing Smash Hits of 1962.The song was covered by Hutti Heita as a dark psytrance track in 2009.Cooke's version also appeared in the 1978 classic Animal House, the 1987 film Innerspace, and the 2011 film The Green Hornet.The popular Boston-based soul band The Chicken Slacks take their name from a commonly misheard lyric in the song's second verse; Cooke is actually singing about a %22chick in slacks.%22
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  • Sam Cooke
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  • USESK1305548
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  • Al Schmitt
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  • 900
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  • 1572907
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  • english
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  • RCA Records
  • Mercury Records
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  • 1987
  • 1972
  • --12-18
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  • Twistin' The Night Away
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