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| "Meet Me at the Twistin' Place" | ||||
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| Single by Johnnie Morrisette | ||||
| Released | February 1962 | |||
| Studio | January 4, 1962 | |||
| Genre | Rock and roll, R&B | |||
| Length | 2:45 | |||
| Label | SAR | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Sam Cooke | |||
| Composer(s) | René Hall | |||
| Johnnie Morrisette singles chronology | ||||
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'Meet Me at the Twistin' Place' is a 1962 song written by Sam Cooke and performed by the Brazillian-born American singer Johnnie Morrisette, and was released as a non-album single early that year.[1] The song was a minor hit on the charts and an R&B hit that summer.[2] The song was adpated into French later that year by Georges Aber as "Madison Twist", which was first performed by French musican Johnny Hallyday and a hit for him (being a Number One hit in his home country), and was covered by fellow singer and Hallyday's later wife Sylvie Vartan around the same time, whose version reached Number 35 on the French Belgian charts.[3] In the French versions, depending on the versions, the two performers call each other out and arrange to meet each other at the place where one dances the Madison that was popular at the time.[4] Morrisette's original version would reach the Tip position on the French Belgian charts in August 1962 following the sucess of Hallyday's and Vartan's versions.[5] Cooke himself recorded the song in 1964 for his eleventh and final studio album Ain't That Good News as "Meet Me at Mary's Place", with lyrics slightly changed to be about Mary Trap, a gospel promoter in Charlotte, North Carolina[6] where it would be posthumously released as a single in 1966 as the sixth and final single from that album but failed to chart.[7]
References
- ^ "Johnnie Morisette - Meet Me At The Twistin' Place - ultratop.be". www.ultratop.be. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
- ^ tolsen (2013-01-02). "Billboard Hot 100™". Billboard. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
- ^ "Sylvie Vartan - Madison Twist - ultratop.be". www.ultratop.be. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
- ^ Jouffa, François (1979). Johnny Story (in French). p. 61.
- ^ "Johnnie Morisette - Meet Me At The Twistin' Place - ultratop.be". www.ultratop.be. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
- ^ "Meet Me At Mary's Place". web.archive.org. 2007-03-19. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
- ^ "Sam Cooke - Meet Me At Mary's Place - ultratop.be". www.ultratop.be. Retrieved 2024-11-30.