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Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans; October 3, 1941) is an American singer and dancer.He is widely known for popularizing many dance styles, including the Twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters' R&B song "The Twist", and the pony dance style with the 1961 cover of the song "Pony Time".
Jim Dawson wrote a 1995 book about the song and the Twist phenomenon called The Twist: The Story of the Song and Dance That Changed the World for Faber and Faber. In 2000, the 1960 recording by Chubby Checker on Parkway Records was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. [34]
But the simple dance that we now know as the Twist originates in the late fifties among teenagers, and was popularized by Chubby Checker in his preparation to debut the song to a national audience on August 6, 1960, on The Dick Clark Show, a Saturday night program that, unlike disc jockey Clark's daytime American Bandstand, was a stage show ...
"The Twist" (Hank Ballard) – originally released by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters as a B-side, but going to No. 1 in the US upon being covered by Chubby Checker (released 1959, charted in 1960 and 1962), [1] who would become the artist most associated with the Twist phenomenon.
Checker’s 1961 hit “Let’s Twist Again” is included in a new PSA from the NYC Department of Transportation. Chubby Checker Wants You to Do “The New York Twist” to Avoid Dooring Cyclists ...
Sep. 17—WILKES-BARRE — In the fall of 1961, record industry history was made when Checker's original hit record — "The Twist" — re-entered the charts, and by January 1962, it was back in ...
Twist with Chubby Checker is the debut album by Chubby Checker and was released in 1960 by Parkway Records. [2] Track listing. Side A
"The Twist" Chubby Checker: 10 "Soldier Boy" The Shirelles: 11 "Hey! Baby" Bruce Channel: 12 "The Wanderer" Dion: 13 "Duke of Earl" Gene Chandler: 14 "Palisades Park" Freddy Cannon: 15 "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" Neil Sedaka: 16 "Wolverton Mountain" Claude King: 17 "Slow Twistin'" Chubby Checker & Dee Dee Sharp: 18 "It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin ...