Such a joyful crowd! This song rocks and rolls because of the answering call that involves the singers. Fantastic stuff! Written in 1961 by Phil Medley and Bert Berns. Recorded by the Isley Brothers but most people remember the Beatles' version.
When “Twist and Shout” by the Isley Brothers was first released, it was just one of innumerable songs of the huge Twist craze. By the time the Beatles version became popular in the US in early 1964, the Twist as a dance was outmoded and ignored even though anything by the Beatles was a hit then. The song’s continuing fame today comes from when it appeared in the 1980s in the finale of the film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” when a big crowd of people watching a parade in Chicago joyously sing and dance to it.
@@Eugene_Connor The Isley Brothers were the second group to record "Twist and Shout", but theirs was the version that was a major hit; the previous one was unsuccessful and remains unknown.
