Chubby Checker

Chubby Checkerborn Ernest Evans, (Andrews, 3 October 1941) is an American singer.



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[hide] *1 early life  ==Young years[ Edit] == He was born Ernest Evansin Spring Gulley, Andrews or South Carolina, but grew up in Philadelphia with his parents and two brothers. Already at a young age he learned to play the piano, he drummed and imitated various singers. At South Philadelphia High School where he was also Frankie Avalon , Fabian Forte, along with his school friend dances for school performances. Initially worked at a poultry dealer, where owner Ernest (Henry Colt) by using every opportunity to demonstrate to Ernests singer. After he relatiegeschenk the end of 1958 on a Christmas picture appeared with an imitation of various stars (Fats Domino, the Coasters, Elvis Presley, Cozy Cole and The Chipmunks), he was beginning 1959 a contract with Cameo-Parkway offered where the picture "The Class" was directly released on single. His stage name was formed by the fact that he by his friends all "Chubby" (English for MK) was called and are Fats Domino imitations, which resulted in the Nice pun Chubby Checker. ==The break-through[ Edit] == Hank Ballard and the Midnighters took 11 november 1958 the original version of The Twist on the b-side of "Teardrops On Your Letter". At this plate heard a little dance to their action in The Peacock Club in Atlanta what cheer up. Although the song at the audience seemed to catch on ran various attempts here to do something with it to nothing. Also when Chubby the number in June 1959 inzong was made the Cameo-Parkway only good enough for a b-side. By Checkers perseverance he lost by many occur not only 15 pounds, but The Twist in the end was a number one hit in 1960, and remained the record over 16 weeks quoted. The number concerned Checker are breakthrough and his title as uncrowned king of the twist. In 1961 The Twist rose to first place for a second time and remained 18 weeks.
 * 2 the break-through
 * 3 Trivia
 * 4 discography (selection)
 * 4.1 Singles
 * 5 the dances in which he played a role
 * 6 external link

The success was followed by numerous variations on the twist and similar dances. When Don Covay and John Berry "Pony Time" released in 1960 with "The Goodtimers" and here some local success with it was covered by Chubby Checker this almost immediately booked. Checkers version rose to number 1 and stayed 16 weeks listed in 1961.

After 1963 was the dance hype a bit about and Checker focused on Europe in terms of music a little behind the us. During this time he learned on the German Bierfesten the Dutch Catharina Lodders, the 1962 Miss World of common. En passant he took in imitation of Elvis Presley with ' Muss I denn (Wooden heart) ' the German children's folksong ' Good old Schwäbische Eisenbahn ' on troola, Troola, troola, better known as ' la '. The b side is ' Autobahn Baby '.

He married in 1964 with Lamont and the couple had three children, the family lived in a suburb of Philadelphia. He also took along with the Dutch pop group ZZ and the masks in 1965 the hits "Baby Baby Balla Balla" and "stopping in Las Vegas" on, which earlier recordings as "ZZ and the masks Sloppin' in Las Vegas".

On 23 June 1970, Checker along with three others arrested at Niagara Falls, when drugs were found in their car.

In 1983, his illegitimate daughter, Mistie Williams born which it later to professionalbasketball player with the Houston Comets in the women's National Basketball Association kicked off.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1988, The Twist for the third time a hit, however, now with the Fat Boys. This time the song reached the 16th place in the charts. In 2007, "Knock Down The Walls" a hit in the us. He still occurs and has since celebrated the 50 anniversary of The Twist. ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Checker could the rest of his life on his musical popularity. In 2000 he started a wholesale in snacks called The Last Twist Chubby Checker, Inc. and Snacks. He also introduced the Checkerlicious Express, a moving snack Roadshow with Checker itself at the wheel. ==Discography (selection)<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Singles<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==The dances in which he played a role<span class="mw-editsection" len="357" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * The only artist with simultaneously for five albums in the top 12
 * The only artist with 9 double-sided hits
 * The first artist with a no. 1 listing twice with the same plate "The Twist".
 * Platinum – "Let's Twist Again".
 * 1) The Class-1959 (No. 38)
 * 2) The Twist-1960 (No. 1)
 * 3) The Hucklebuck-1961 (No. 14)
 * 4) Pony Time-1961 (No. 1)
 * 5) Dance The Mess Around-1961 (No. 24)
 * 6) Let's Twist Again-1961 (No. 8)
 * 7) The Fly-1961 (No. 7)
 * 8) The Twist (re-release)-1961 (No. 1)
 * 9) Jingle Bell Rock (with Bobby Rydell)-1961 (No. 21)
 * 10) Slow Twistin' (with Dee Dee Sharp)-1962 (No. 3)
 * 11) Dancin' Party-1962 (No. 12)
 * 12) Limbo Rock 1962 (No. 2)
 * 13) Popeye The Hitchhiker-1962 (No. 10)
 * 14) Let's Limbo Some More-1963 (No. 20)
 * 15) Twenty Miles-1963 (No. 15)
 * 16) Birdland-1963 (No. 12)
 * 17) Twist It Up-1963 (No. 25)
 * 18) Kashef Lo-1963 (No. 12)
 * 19) Hooka Tooka-1964 (No. 17)
 * Hey, Bobba Needle-1964 (No. 23)
 * 1) Lazy Elsie Molly-1964 (No. 40)
 * 2) Let's Do The Freddy-1965 (No. 40)
 * 1) The Twist
 * 2) The Pony
 * 3) The Fly
 * 4) The Limbo
 * 5) The Limbo Rock
 * 6) The Watusi
 * 7) The Hamza Gully
 * 8) The Stroll
 * 9) The Mashed Potatoes
 * 10) The Shimmy
 * 11) The Freddy