Chubby Checker himself has always had a somewhat different explanation for the success of the Twist: "You didn't have to be a great dancer to do the Twist. All you needed to do was a few steps, a ...

“The Twist” eventually topped the Hot 100 in September, thanks to Clark’s constant promotion and — as Checker has noted ever since — the accompanying dance move.

Quick, who is the only recording artist to have five albums in the Top 12 all at once? It’s Chubby Checker. And that’s a surprise twist, because when you think Chubby Checker, most just think ...

Chubby Checker leads Conway Twitty and Dick Clark through the dance the Twist. Bettmann Archive Checker’s first song release, “The Class,” achieved modest success, charting in the top 40 ...

The dance floor is Chubby Checker, and the Twist is what we do to everybody’s music.” He believes that anyone who calls him a one-hit wonder is “sick.” “I’ve had 34 hits,” he said ...

When Chubby Checker performed at a subsequent CADA fundraiser, Earl Minnis would be sitting next to him at dinner. That was, as both men have attested, the beginning of a beautiful friendship. “He is ...

Just out of his teens, Chubby Checker began popularizing different dancing styles with catchy songs, starting with "The Twist." How “The Twist” Creator, Chubby Checker, Got His Name About ...

So he's not a one-hit wonder, but if you did want to consider him such, what a one hit that was: Chubby's 1960 version of the Hank Ballard-penned "The Twist" was placed atop Billboard‘s list of ...

What everybody dances to since Chubby Checker went on ‘American Bandstand’ in 1959, 1960, that style of dance is still with us. It never left. "I’m looking at the girl and the girl is ...

Checker, 82, is known for creating and popularizing new and lively dance styles in the 1960s: the Pony; the Hucklebuck; the Fly; and, most famously, the Twist.

You should check out the history of television, and see what happened before Chubby Checker and after Chubby Checker did his 2:52 singing “The Twist” on “American Bandstand” (on Aug. 6, 1960).