Billy Joe & The Checkmates - Percolator (Twist)

Instrumental Oldies

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Music

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• Oldies
• Dore
• Records

[tiptoncathcart]

I still have a vinyl single of this little master and remember jiving with my sister in front of the mirror back in '62!

[srercrcr22]

I'm sorry to say....I remember this

[sauquoit13456]

SON-OF-GUN; JUST MADE IT!!! In 1962 "Percolator Twist" peaked at No. 10 thus just making the Billboard's Top 10 and it spent a total of 13 weeks in the Top 100...

This was the groups only record to make Billboard'S Top 100...

[appapo3]

@SpudMills People today use drip coffee makers .They might not connect the music to the commercial that showed the coffee percolating in time with the music.

[dago1256]

@tiptoncathcart My sister just told this was a favorite song when I 6 we would dance together, I love all those old songs here on youtube.

[itsNOTreallyMYfault]

@yedon68 Percolator Twist on the Dore label reached # 10 in 1962. According to That Old Time Rock and Roll -- A Chronicle of an Era 1954-1963 by Richard Aquila.

[yedon68]

...this was a minor hit on pop radio...1963 ?

[musicfreak1967]

this song was heard often in the 70s in the German radio. Class music that is heard today the best! Thank you for uploading from Germany.

[stoogeswoman]

YAY!! My favorite version of this happy little song - thank you!

[nomiclas]

@SpudMills good to the last drop.but it was an advertizing gimmic.the song is true to the concept and is a really good instrumental.

[SpudMills]

According to other sites, this song was "based on" the Maxwell House jingle. It's similar, but not really the same. (And who knows where the other sites' info came from?)

[Valdevious]

@phunkyjunction Billy Joe, aka Lou Bideu, aka Lew Bidell was an interesting man. I had the pleasure of knowing him the last 4 years before his passing. Around 1998 he remastered some of his "best" artists consisting mostly from the comedy days and some of his own bits. I had the honor of helping him with this, I believe his final hands-on project. I even made the liner notes! He married a Barrymore sister and was an uncle to Drew Barrymore. Interesting man...