Hammer,Jack Twistin King: Best Of Jack Hammer 1958-1962 CD

Earl Solomon Burroughs - aka Jack Hammer - was one of America's most enduring and versatile talents. A multilingual singer, songwriter, poet, pianist, dancer, actor, comedian, impressionist, playwright and artist, he enjoyed success across all these fields in a long, rewarding life/career. Although remembered rather more for songwriting ('Great Balls Of Fire', 'Peek-A-Boo') than singing, Jack also, nonetheless, enjoyed success as a mainstream Pop star in Europe during the early 60s, as "The Twistin' King"!This compilation presents the Very Best of his record releases between 1958-1962, including a trio of sides from his 1960 jazzy 'concept album', "Rebellion", which is nowadays a huge collectors' item. Also included are his European Twistin' successes, most notably his biggest sellers, 'The Kissin' Twist', 'Twist Talk', 'The Wiggle' and, of course, our title track.

1. Girl, Girl, Girl 2. Little-Bitty Goose Pimples 3. The Hawks and the Crowns 4. Concrete Desert 5. Mean and Evil Me 6. Good Gravy (As Tommy Hawke) 7. Juliette 8. The Kissin' Twist 9. Melancholy Boy 10. Let's Twist Again 11. The Twistin' King 12. Boogie Woogie Twist 13. Twist Talk 14. Crazy Twist 15. Don't Let Baby Know 16. The Wiggle 17. The Wiggling Fool 18. Stop-Slop 19. Can't You Do It 20. Electricity 21. Espana Te Quiero 22. Ali Ben Ghazi 23. Sugar Boy 24. It's Good 25. Fire Baby 26. Number 2539 27. Twist and Shout 28. Spelling Twist 29. Twist in the Morning 30. Twist Turn and Twirl 31. Come Twist Around the Clock 32. Twistin' Blues