Twist with Bobby Darin

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Twist with Bobby Darin
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Studio album by
Released1961
Genre Pop
Length26:29
Label Atco
Producer Ahmet Ertegün
Bobby Darin chronology
Love Swings
(1961)
Twist with Bobby Darin
(1961)
Bobby Darin Sings Ray Charles
(1962)

Twist with Bobby Darin is an album by American singer Bobby Darin, released in 1961. It reached number 48 on the Billboard 200 and remained there for 31 weeks. [1]

Contents

Five of the songs were previously released the year before on For Teenagers Only and the first six were written by Darin himself.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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In his Allmusic review, critic JT Griffith wrote "The dance album is a collection of rock songs, all of which have backbeat suitable for, obviously, twisting... Twist with Bobby Darin was something of a stop-gap album." [1]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Bullmoose" (Bobby Darin) – 2:31
  2. "Early in the Morning" (Darin, Woody Harris) – 2:17
  3. "Mighty Mighty Men" (Darin) – 1:40
  4. "You Know How" (Darin) – 2:07
  5. "Somebody to Love" (Darin) – 2:19
  6. "Multiplication" (Darin) – 2:18

Side two

  1. "Irresistible You" (Al Kasha, Luther Dixon) – 2:34
  2. "Queen of the Hop" (Harris) – 2:14
  3. "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" (Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren) – 2:11
  4. "Keep a Walkin'" (Howard Greenfield, Neil Sedaka) – 1:59
  5. "Pity Miss Kitty" (Harris) – 2:08
  6. "I Ain't Sharin' Sharon" (Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman) – 2:11

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Griffith, JT. "Twist with Bobby Darin > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved May 15, 2015.