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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 ".
On 12 December 1963, as a 21-year-old Dutch model and former beauty queen from Haarlem, the Netherlands, [3] Lodders accepted the marriage proposal [4] of 22-year-old American singer/songwriter/dancer Chubby Checker. [5] Checker said he met Lodders in Manila the prior January. (Checker's song "Loddy Lo", a
Chubby Checker released a remix of the song in 2003, titled "Limbo Rock (Remixes)", produced by Mike Rogers and Gary Lefkowith and featuring Inner Circle.Phil Sweetland, writing for the New York Times stated that at "age 62 and 43 years after 'The Twist,' Chubby Checker has once again comes up with a top-five single: a hip-hop-flavored version of another of his 1960's hits, 'Limbo Rock.'"
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Some of the artists that performed at Zivko's include Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Joe Walsh, Robin Trower, Ted Nugent, Cheap Trick, Ricky Nelson and Chubby Checker. Today, the building, now known as the Chandelier Ballroom, is used mainly for wedding receptions. [1] [2] [3]
Don't Knock the Twist is a 1962 comedy musical film starring Lang Jeffries, directed by Oscar Rudolph and produced by Sam Katzman for release by Columbia Pictures. It is a sequel to the 1961 film Twist Around the Clock, featuring musical artists including Chubby Checker.
Twist with Chubby Checker is the debut album by Chubby Checker and was released in 1960 by Parkway Records. [2] Track listing. Side A "Twistin' U.S.A." "The "Ooh Poo ...
Chubby Checker's 1960 cover version of the song reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 19, 1960, where it stayed for one week, and setting a record at the time as the only song to reach number 1 in two different hit parade runs when it resurfaced and topped the popular hit parade again for two weeks starting on January 13, 1962. [5]