Record:Do the Twist! with Ray Charles

Ray Charles often receives credit as the artist most responsible for shaping soul music. Charles started his career in the late 1940s by singing smooth pop before segueing into more soulful singing, reaching a new level of popularity with 1955's R&B hit "I Got a Woman." Atlantic Records packaged this 1961 compilation disk to link earlier songs by Ray Charles to the dance craze for the Twist. For slow learners who had not yet caught on to the dance's movements, the album cover conveniently includes diagrams and written instructions by Don Pallini, credited as "a well known dance instructor who opertes a fashionalbe chain of dance studios."