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The Shirelles and King Curtis Give a Twist Party

1962 studio album by King Curtis and The Shirelles

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 22, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Shirelles and King Curtis Give a Twist Party is a 1962 collaborative album between American blues and rhythm and blues saxophonist King Curtis and girl group The Shirelles. In 1968, the album was re-released as Eternally Soul.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Shirelles and King Curtis Give a Twist Party” as 1962 studio album by King Curtis and The Shirelles. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962, 1968—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Shirelles, King and Curtis can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as 1962 studio album by King Curtis and The Shirelles. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 22, 2025. The first chronological checks are 1962 and 1968.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “The Shirelles and King Curtis Give a Twist Party” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.