Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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".
Limbo Party is the sixth album by Chubby Checker and was released in 1962 by Parkway ... "Somebody Bad Stole the Wedding Bell" (David Mann, Bob Hilliard) "The Bossa ...
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]
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]
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]
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
"Dancin' Party" is a song written by Kal Mann and Dave Appell and performed by Chubby Checker. [1] In 1962, the track reached No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 19 on the Canadian and UK Singles Charts. [2] [3] It was featured on his 1963 compilation album, Chubby Checker's Biggest Hits. [4]
"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.