Key Club Shows:

• Earl Bostic, November 14, 1961
• International Jazzmen, November 20, 1961
• The Flamingos, November 24-December 3, 1961
• Bill Doggett, December 4, 1961

In December 1961 the Twist had hit and the Key Club was on top of it.  Will Jones reported on December 18 that:

It was a wild, wild night at the Key Club.  Bill Doggett’s twist music proved so infectious one woman patron jumped onstage and began to strip which isn’t exactly the idea.  The management hustled her off.

On December 22, 1961, an ad in the Minneapolis Spokesman says “It’s Twisting Time at the Key Club – Learn to Dance the Twist with the Hortense Allen Dancers and the Bill Pinkard Combo.  Dance on the largest nite club dance floor in the Twin Cities.”  Also featured was Harold Connors, blues singer formerly with B.B. King.