Hank Ballard's "The Twist" sounds almost exactly like Chubby Checker's later hit record; Chubby and his musicians obviously copied Hank and the Midnighters just as closely as they possibly could. Chubby's voice even sounds remarkably like Hank's.

As a white kid in suburban New Jersey in the late 50s'early 60s, The one and only Hank Ballard song I remember hearing on rock 'n' roll radio (WABC New York) was "Finger Poppin' Time." Boy, did I love that song! I know it was summertime when it was on the radio; I can still picture the girls in their bathing suits playing that song on the jukebox at the swimming pool.

And, oh yeah: it was Louis Jordan and the Tympani Five.