The Starliters First TV Performance - 1956

For those who like their music raw, it doesn’t get much rawer than this! From August 1956, the Starliters make their first TV appearance on the program Amateur Hour. Although the blurb running across the video states that Joey Dee (that’s Joey playing the sax) and The Starliters 1961 song “Peppermint Twist“ made the Twist dance a national fad, that isn’t entirely accurate. The Twist caught fire in 1960 after Chubby Checker released his version of Hank Ballard’s earlier rendition of “The Twist.“ But it’s cer