Apr. 16—PEMBROKE — Chubby Checker is a living legend with more than 50 years of performing on stage and in film. The legendary performer is appearing on May 6 at the Givens Performing Arts Center on ...

"The Twist" is a testament to the notion that a hit song can come from anywhere, and that a song's hold on the collective imagination can't always be predicted. By Brad Shoup Contributing Writer As ...

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 of one ...

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 kind of a surprise because when you think Chubby Checker, most just think of one ...

Rock ‘n’ roll icon Chubby Checker is on the phone from a tour stop near Binghamton, N.Y., trying to explain the impact his 1960 hit “The Twist” and the dance it spawned had on the music industry. ” ...

Long-time Main Line resident Chubby Checker had hundreds of people twisting in front of Philadelphia’s City Hall Friday afternoon. The free concert was a celebration of the 50th anniversary of his ...

The Weeknd has dethroned Chubby Checker‘s 1960 hit “The Twist” as Billboard’s No. 1 Greatest Hot 100 Song of all time with the 2019 release “Blinding Light.” The song spent 90 weeks on the Hot 100 ...

Born October 3, 1941, in Spring Gully, South Carolina, and raised in Philadelphia, singer, songwriter, and dancer Ernest Evans would go on to popularize several dance styles in American culture ...