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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".
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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]
"Birdland" is a song written by Kal Mann and Huey "Piano" Smith and performed by Chubby Checker. [1] In 1963, the track reached No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 18 on the U.S. R&B chart. [2] In Canada "Birdland" and "Black Cloud" co-charted reaching No. 14, [3] It was featured on his 1963 album, Beach Party. [4]
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.'"
"Let's Twist Again" is a song written by Kal Mann and Dave Appell, and released as a single by Chubby Checker. One of the biggest hit singles of 1961, it reached No.8 on the U.S. Billboard pop chart (No.3 on Cash Box) in August of that year and subsequently reached No.2 in the UK in the spring of 1962.
"The Class" is a 1959 novelty song by American rock and roll recording artist Chubby Checker. It peaked at number thirty-eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and was his first entry on the chart. [ 3 ] In the song, Checker plays a music teacher who asks his class (Checker doing impressions of various musicians) for their homework, which are ...
Checker's version was featured in the 1962 film Don't Knock the Twist and was included on the soundtrack. Checker's version was featured in the 1988 film Hairspray, however, due to licensing restrictions with Cameo-Parkway Records, was not included on the soundtrack. The song was mentioned in the Ernie Mareska song "Shout! Shout!