Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Liebestraum von Liszt-als twist...
...dance band can squeeze in more than one quick waltz or fox trot before the crowd begins chanting "Tvist! Tvist!" The bands quickly oblige. In less than two months, German record companies have spun out 300,000 twist disks, hope to triple their sales in six months. Of 100 different twist tunes, none on the market is more popular than a weirdie called Liebestraum von Liszt Twist, which is selling nearly 30,000 platters a week. Sample lyrics...
...Liebestraum von Liszt-als twist...
...could hear what has happened to his schöne, weltbekannte melody, Papa Liszt no doubt would be writhing, not twisting. And he would have plenty of company-solid German doctors who warn against "accelerating one's hips and legs in opposite directions," parents and churchmen who deplore "the overt sexual implications of the dance." But some German intellectuals defend the twist. It is, says one Munich psychiatrist, "a proper cure for working off frustrations." And a psychiatrist in Berlin, where the cold war takes the rap for all sorts of aberrations, sees it as a byproduct...
...abbreviated translation: "This is the Liebestraum by Liszt-done as a twist. But nobody can do it as well as Papa Liszt. Yes, this is the beautiful, world-renowned Liebestraum by Liszt-done as a twist...