It seems comical, definitely archaic now, but there was once a time when The Twist was banned in Singapore. Andy shares this bit of censorship history from 1960s Singapore.

Why was The Twist banned? Andy explains:

Hey, you may not know this. Not only were songs banned in Singapore in 1959 but a dance too. In the early years of Independence, saw the banning of The Twist, a dance fad from Western pop culture. As explained in an another *posting the Helen Shapiro/Billy Fury movie Play It Cool was banned because of its ‘undesirable song and dance sequences’.

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So in Singapore, three other films which featured the dance were not allowed screenings. These movies were, Hey, Let’s Twist, Twist Around The Clock and The Teenage Millionaire (images 1,2). This was a cinema clean-up because there was a policy that where books or films were detrimental to morals…

Read the full story on Andy’s blog here.