Other hit version by Chubby Checker (US #1/R&B #2/UK #44/AUS #20 1960 |US #1/R&B #4/UK #14/AUS #3 1962). From the wiki: “Songs about doing ‘the twist’ date back to nineteenth-century minstrelsy, including ‘Grape Vine Twist’ from around 1844. In 1938 Jelly Roll Morton,...
全部播放 专辑名:Chubby - Hit After Hit 歌手:Chubby Checker 发行时间:2012-10-29 简介:<Chubby - Hit After Hit> - 歌曲列表 全部播放播放 全选 01Chubby Checker、dee dee sharp - The Twist 02Chubby Checker、dee dee sharp - Dancin' Party 03Chubby Checker、dee dee sharp - The Hucklebuck 04...
Surf Party (Original Mix) - Chubby Checker There's a surfing party At the shore tonight Everybody's here Well I brought my baby And she's outta sight Yes she disappeared I see them surfing twisting Loving kissing Well I got nobody now To hold me tight Where in the ...
Chubby Checker was an early rock 'n' roller who had a hit with the song and dance sensation "The Twist."
Chubby CheckerChubby Checker was the unrivaled king of the rock & roll dance craze; although most of the dances his records promoted the Pony, the Fly, and the Hucklebuck, to cite just three have long since faded into obscurity, his most famous hit, The Twist, remains the yardstick against...
As for Checker, he was both made and ruined by “The Twist”. He hung around the charts with a series of dance songs (“Let’s Twist Again,”“Slow Twist,”“Pony Time,”“The Hucklebuck,”“Limbo Rock”), and his fame was such that he married Catharina Lodders, a Dutch model and...
Chubby Checker: The Icon Behind "The Twist" and a Rock 'n' Roll Legend Chubby Checker, born Ernest Evans on October 3, 1941, is an American singer-songwriter best known for popularizing the Twist dance style with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard's "The Twist." The song became a ...
Chubby Checker's The Twist has been knocked off its perch at the top of Billboard's all-time greatest song chart by The Weeknd's viral hit Blinding Lights. Checker's 1960 hit has been atop the table since its inception in 2008, after spending several weeks at...
(CBS News) And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: January 13th, 1962, 51 years ago today, the day "Hit Parade" lightning struck twice. For that was the day Chubby Checker's version of "The Twist" hit Number One, AGAIN, more than a year after it hit number one the FIR...
A popular tune by Simon and Garfunkel written after John F. Kennedy’s assassination and Chubby Checker’s 1960s dance hit “The Twist” will be among 25 recordings selected for preservation at the Library of Congress. These are just a few sounds of the 20th century being added t...