Chubby Checker
Chubby Checker was originally Ernest Evans, but was re-named
because of his resemblance to a young Fats Domino.
He scored a minor hit with The Class, but his
recording of The Twist (originally recorded by Hank
Ballard as a 1959 B-side) took off like a whirlwind after prime
time TV exposure.
It became the biggest dance craze since the Charleston, and the
steps were so easy that anyone could do The Twist . . . and
everybody did.
Checker spent the next few years achieving more hit records
based on further dances such as The Hucklebuck, The Limbo and The
Hitchhike.
None succeeded like the original however, and after Let's
Twist Again rekindled the fire, a re-issue of The Twist
returned to Number One at the end of 1961.
By the end of 1965 Checker was running out of ideas.
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