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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
She is the daughter of rock and roll singer and dancer Chubby Checker. [7] [8] She is married to former football player Shane Boyd [9] and has two children. [10]
"Loddy Lo" is a song written by Kal Mann and Dave Appell and performed by Chubby Checker. [1] In 1963, the track reached No. 4 on the U.S. R&B and No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. [2] In Canada the song reached No. 5. [3] It was featured on his 1963 album, Chubby's Folk Album. [4] The song was written about Checker's wife Catharina Lodders.
Her first job was with Willa Ward Moultrie and was soon singing backup vocals for the likes of Lloyd Price, Chubby Checker, Bobby Rydell, Frankie Avalon and Jackie Wilson. [1] [4] [2] [3] In 1962, she was signed by Cameo/Parkway and was re-christened Dee Dee Sharp by producers Kal Mann and Bernie Lowe.
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]
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 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.'"