Chubby Checker

Chubby Checker (Born: Ernest Evans; ) is an American singer and dancer. 
==History==
Checker was born Ernest Evans in Spring Gully, South Carolina. He was raised in the projects of South Philadelphia, where he lived with his parents, Raymond and Eartle Evans, and two brothers. By age eleven, Evans formed a street-corner harmony group. By the time he entered high school, Ernest had learned to play the piano a little at Settlement Music School. He entertained his classmates by performing vocal impressions of popular entertainers of the day, such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley and Fats Domino. https://www.biography.com/musician/chubby-checker One of his classmates and friends at South Philadelphia High School was Fabian Forte, who would become a popular performer of the late 1950s and early 1960s as Fabian. http://www.chubbychecker.com/bio.asp
After school Evans would entertain customers at his various jobs, including Fresh Farm Poultry in the Italian Market with songs and jokes. It was his boss at the Produce Market, Tony A., who gave Evans the nickname "Chubby". The owner of Fresh Farm Poultry, Henry Colt, was so impressed by the boy's performances for the customers that he, along with his colleague and friend Kal Mann arranged for young Chubby to do a private recording for American Bandstand host Dick Clark. After hearing Chubby's Fats Domino impression, Clark's wife Barbara suggested that Chubby be called "Chubby Checker" in homage to Fats Domino. https://americansongwriter.com/the-story-behind-how-the-twist-creator-chubby-checker-got-his-name/
In December 1958, Checker privately recorded a novelty single for Clark in which the singer portrayed a school teacher with an unruly classroom of musical performers. The premise allowed Checker to imitate such acts as Fats Domino, The Coasters, Elvis Presley, Cozy Cole, and The Chipmunks, each singing "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Clark sent the song out as his Christmas greeting, and it received good response that Cameo-Parkway signed Checker to a recording contract. http://archive.org/details/twiststoryofsong0000daws Titled "The Class", the single became Checker's first release, charting at No. 38 in the spring of 1959. https://www.billboard.com/artist/chubby-checker/
Checker introduced his version of "The Twist," originally by Hank Ballard and The Midnighters', at the age of 18 in July 1960, in Wildwood, New Jersey at the Rainbow Club. "The Twist" went on to top the Billboard Hot 100 not just once in 1960, but yet again in a separate chart run in late 1961. The first success was attributed to teens, and the unprecedented second number-one Billboard ranking was driven by older audiences following a spirited live performance of the song by Checker on The Ed Sullivan Show, seen by over 10 million viewers. https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/TheTwist.pdf
==Discography==
===Albums===
*Twist with Chubby Checker (1960)
*For Twisters Only (1960)
*Let's Twist Again (1961)
*It's Pony Time (1961)
*For 'Teen Twisters Only (1961)
*Limbo Party (1962)
*Beach Party (1962)
*Twistin' Round the World (1961)
*Let's Limbo Some More (1963)
*Chubby Checker in Person (1963)
*Chubby's Folk Album (1964)
*At the Discotheque (1965)
*Chequered! (1971)
*The Change Has Come (1982)
*The Texas Twisting (1994)
*Towards The Light (2001)
===Compilation Albums===
*All the Hits (For Your Dancin' Party) (1962)
*Chubby Checker's Biggest Hits (1963)
*Chubby Checker's Greatest Hits (1973)
=== Singles ===
* Whole Lotta Laughin (1959)
* Dancing Dinosaurs (1959)
* Black Cloud (1963)
* What Do Ya Say! (1963)
* Rosie (1964)
* Lovely, Lovely (Loverly, Loverly) (1964)
* Everything's Wrong (1965)
* You just Don't Know (What You Do To Me) (1965)
* Hey You! Little Boo-Ga-Loo (1966)
* Looking at Tomorrow (1966)
* Karate Monkey (1966)
* Back in the U.S.S.R. (1969)
* Reggae My Way (1973)
* She's a Bad Woman (1974)
* The Rub (1976)
* The Twist (Yo, Twist! Version) (1988)
* Changes (2013)
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