Billy Joe And The Checkmates - Songs

ABOUT

Billy Joe & The Checkmates were a pop group formed by Lew Bedell (March 21, 1919 - July 6, 2000, b. Lewis Bedinsky), a music business executive and comedian who also went by the names of Louis Bideu and Billy Joe Hunter. This group had one instrumental hit in 1962, "Percolator (Twist)," which reached #10 on the Billboard Hot 100. This song is a rock and roll version of an early 1960s Maxwell House coffee TV commercial which was famous for the slogan, good to the last drop.

During the 1950s, Bedell hosted "The Lew Bedell Show" on WOR-TV in New York City, and he also co-founded the Dore and Era record labels. ("Percolator (Twist)" was released on the Dore label.)

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Billy Joe And The Checkmates

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