I was recently unpacking a box and ran across a page from the Jissue of Billboard Magazine. Why?”Īfter all but dropping off the music charts in 1969, Chubby came back hard in a poignant 1988 duet with The Fat Boys:“The Twist (Yo, Twist!).”Ĭhubby certainly is an important figure in rock history, and no one thinks so more than Chubby. The song kicked off a nationwide dance craze, and Checker followed it up with such diverse hits as “Twistin’ USA,” “Let’s Twist Again,” “Slow Twistin’,” “Twistin’ Round the World,” “Twist It Up,” and (not really, but according to a bit of hilarious wikipedia vandalism) “You Stopped Twisting. Evans was given the name “Chubby Checker” by ( American Bandstand host) Dick Clark’s wife, as a play on “Fats Domino,” whom Evans did impressions of in his act.Ĭhecker’s recording of “The Twist” was a number one Billboard Hot 100 smash in 1960-and again in 1962. ![]() Chubby Checker, born Ernest Evans, holds a place in rock history as the man who popularized “The Twist,” a song originally a minor hit for Hank Ballard.
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