Australian singles chart:
Limbo Rock entered the Kent charts on 6 October 1962 and peaked at #8. It was #22 on the Top 100 of 1962.
Album:
The song is on Chubby’s 1962 album Limbo Party.
Songwriters:
Kal Mann (as Jan Sheldon), Billy Strange
Record label of Australian release:
Columbia
Wikipedia:
The song Limbo Rock, about the then-popular craze of limbo dancing, was written by Kal Mann (under the pseudonym Jan Sheldon) and Billy Strange. An instrumental version was first recorded by The Champs in 1961, then the first vocal version was recorded by Chubby Checker in 1962. Checker followed that in 1963 with a sequel called Let’s Limbo Some More.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo_Rock
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