Tuesday, May 28, 2002 1:44:04 AM
Rock 'n' Roll Artists A-Z...Re: Chubby Checker
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http://members.aol.com/oldies1/chubby.htm
http://www.classicbands.com/checker.html
http://www.execpc.com/~suden/check.html
http://www.rambles.net/chubby_checker.html
http://www.tsimon.com/checker.htm
http://www.barberusa.com/nostal/checker_chubby.html
This is my message to the Nobel Prize nominators and the nominators of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Should you choose me I'll consider it honorable. However, I have conditions for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
To Place the "Twist" symbol that's on Chubby Checker's Beef Jerky, this statue on top of a thirty foot or so pedestal in the courtyard of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. I would like to be alone thank you. I changed the business. I am often call the wheel that Rock rolls on as long as people are dancing apart to the beat of the music they enjoy. Before "Alexander Graham Bell" … no Telephone. Before "Thomas Edison" … no Electric light. Before "Dr. George Washington Carver" … no Oil from seed or cloning of plants. Before "Henry Ford" … no V-8 Engine. Before "Walt Disney" … no Animated cartoons. Before Chubby Checker … no "Dancing Apart to the Beat." What is "Dancing Apart to the Beat?" Dancing Apart to the Beat is the dance that we do when we dance apart to the beat of anybody's music and before "Chubby Checker" it could not be found!
Elvis Presley is the King of Rock & Roll, no doubt, and we love him. However, Rock & Roll was already here. He just became the King of it. The Beatles, who we all love so dearly, their likeness was done by the Beach Boys, Buddy Holly and the Crickets. But it's evident that they did it much, much better. Hank Ballard wrote and recorded the "Twist". The inner city kids made a dance to that song. The record died on the radio. Radio stopped playing the record. The "Twist" was dead. No one was going to hear the record and no one was ever going to see the dance. We re-recorded the record and campaigned the song and the dance at DJ record dance parties in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Radio stations started to play the "Twist" by Chubby Checker. We finally made it to American Bandstand and showed the world what it was. Chubby Checker changed everything. He gave movement to a music that never had this movement before. The styles changed. The nightclub scene is forever changed. Chubby Checker gave birth to aerobics.
He game to music a movement that could not be found unless you were trained at some studio learning something other than dancing apart to the beat. It's easy. It's fun. The "Twist" the only song, since time began, to become number one twice by the same artist. Oh yes, we're talking about the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. But lets face the truth. This is Nobel Prize Territory.
The "Twist" is very recognizable when you dance apart to the beat. But "The Pony", two on one side and two on the other side, the dance that I introduced in 1961 is the biggest dance of the century. They do it to everything, in the 70's, 80's, 90's and now 2000's. And what about my "Fly"? To explain it better, throw your hands in the air and wave them like you just don't care. If you "Fly" you automatically do the "Shake". From 1959 to this moment it's either the "Twist", the "Pony", the "Fly", the "Shake" or some other nasty stuff in between.
Please I urge you not to look upon my comments as self-centered, proud love thy self. This is not what this is about. Since I have such a unique situation in the music business, I feel only I can explain it. If the music industry knew or understood this reoccurring phenomenon, that's renewed every time the beat begins, they would have explained it through the decades. Yes, "Dancing Apart to the Beat" is Chubby Checker. Everybody is doing it everyday, every month, every year, since its discovery in 1959. Chubby Checker's given the music business something great. Now he wants his greatness returned.
I want my flowers while I'm alive. I can't smell them when I'm dead. The people that come to see the show have given me everything. However I will not have the music business ignorant of my position in the industry. Dick Clark said, and I quote, "The three most important things that ever happened in the music industry are Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Chubby Checker". Now I ask you. Where is my more money and my more fame? God bless and have mercy. You know I Love You.
Yours truly,
Chubby Checker
If all the people who have seen Chubby Checker perform through the years stood side by side they would encircle the globe many times over. And, no matter who among them was asked, there would be no question that Chubby Checker is the most dynamic, charismatic entertainer in he world today.
His ability to electrify an audience puts him in a class of his own. His showmanship, energy and charm captivates everyone, pleasing crowds of every age group. He spends an average of 300 days a year on the road, traveling around the world making audiences happy.
Chubby Checker exploded onto the music scene in 1960 and never looked back. Known as “King of the Twist”, Chubby Checker is one of the few entertainers who has successfully sustained a career over three and a half decades. He is as popular today as he was in 1960 when the Twist first came out. Chubby is a record breaker who has sold over 250 million records to date. This has placed him in then number 56 spot in record sales of all time. He is the only person on the planed who has had the same single record go number one twice in different years as well as the only artist ever to have nine double sided hit records.
Chubby Checker was born Ernest Evans on October 3, 1941 in Spring Gulley, South Carolina. He later moved to Philadelphia. As a teenage, Ernest found a job opening in a produce market on 9th Street in Philadelphia. When he applied for the job, Tony Anastasi who was the boss called him Chubby. Ernest said, “Who’s Chubby? I’m not Chubby.” Tony replied, “You are if you want the job”... and Ernest Evans became Chubby. Soon after that, Chubby found another job working in a chicken store. The man who owned the shop, Henry Colt, liked to set up a microphone so his young employee could sing songs of the fifties while people shopped. Coincidentally, Colt had a friend, Kal Mann who was a songwriter associated with the most recognized recording studio in the Philadelphia area.
So when Dick Clark asked Mann to write a song and recommend a singer for a musical Christmas card based on Jingle Bells, Mann suggested Chubby. While in the studio, Clark’s wife, Barbara walked in and said to him, “Chubby... Chubby Checker. You’re going to be Chubby for Fats and Checker for Domino.”
And Ernest Evans received yet another new name and became Chubby Checker for the rest of time.
A few months later, while still attending South Philadelphia High School, Chubby made his first record called “The Class”. Just before Chubby graduated from high school, the record company told him they had a song that had been done by someone else, but they wanted him to record it over again. The song was the Twist. It had been written and originally recorded by Hank Ballard in 1958 and had made a little noise, but was no hit record by any means. Chubby went in the studio and recorded the tune. Before Chubby graduated high school, the Twist was a hit and so was he. History was made. The music world had changed forever and would never be the same again. While Chubby is not the King of Rock and Roll, he is the king of the music business.
Top 40 Hits
1 (#38)...The Class-1959
2 (#1)...The Twist-1960
3 (#14)...The Hucklebuck-1961
4 (#1)...Pony Time-1961
5 (#24)...Dance The Mess Around-1961
6 (#8)...Let's Twist Again-1961
7 (#7)...The Fly-1961
8 (#1)...The Twist (re-release)-1961
9 (#21)...Jingle Bell Rock (with Bobby Rydell)-1961
10 (#3)...Slow Twistin' (with Dee Dee Sharp)-1962
11 (#12)...Dancin' Party-1962
12 (#2)...Limbo Rock-1962
13 (#10)...Popeye The Hitchhiker-1962
14 (#20)...Let's Limbo Some More-1963
15 (#15)...Twenty Miles-1963
16 (#12)...Birdland-1963
17 (#25)...Twist It Up-1963
18 (#12)...Loddy Lo-1963
19 (#17)...Hooka Tooka-1964
20 (#23)...Hey, Bobba Needle-1964
21 (#40)...Lazy Elsie Molly-1964
22 (#40)...Let's Do The Freddy-1965
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http://www.chubbychecker.com/
http://members.aol.com/oldies1/chubby.htm
http://www.classicbands.com/checker.html
http://www.execpc.com/~suden/check.html
http://www.rambles.net/chubby_checker.html
http://www.tsimon.com/checker.htm
http://www.barberusa.com/nostal/checker_chubby.html
This is my message to the Nobel Prize nominators and the nominators of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Should you choose me I'll consider it honorable. However, I have conditions for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
To Place the "Twist" symbol that's on Chubby Checker's Beef Jerky, this statue on top of a thirty foot or so pedestal in the courtyard of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. I would like to be alone thank you. I changed the business. I am often call the wheel that Rock rolls on as long as people are dancing apart to the beat of the music they enjoy. Before "Alexander Graham Bell" … no Telephone. Before "Thomas Edison" … no Electric light. Before "Dr. George Washington Carver" … no Oil from seed or cloning of plants. Before "Henry Ford" … no V-8 Engine. Before "Walt Disney" … no Animated cartoons. Before Chubby Checker … no "Dancing Apart to the Beat." What is "Dancing Apart to the Beat?" Dancing Apart to the Beat is the dance that we do when we dance apart to the beat of anybody's music and before "Chubby Checker" it could not be found!
Elvis Presley is the King of Rock & Roll, no doubt, and we love him. However, Rock & Roll was already here. He just became the King of it. The Beatles, who we all love so dearly, their likeness was done by the Beach Boys, Buddy Holly and the Crickets. But it's evident that they did it much, much better. Hank Ballard wrote and recorded the "Twist". The inner city kids made a dance to that song. The record died on the radio. Radio stopped playing the record. The "Twist" was dead. No one was going to hear the record and no one was ever going to see the dance. We re-recorded the record and campaigned the song and the dance at DJ record dance parties in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Radio stations started to play the "Twist" by Chubby Checker. We finally made it to American Bandstand and showed the world what it was. Chubby Checker changed everything. He gave movement to a music that never had this movement before. The styles changed. The nightclub scene is forever changed. Chubby Checker gave birth to aerobics.
He game to music a movement that could not be found unless you were trained at some studio learning something other than dancing apart to the beat. It's easy. It's fun. The "Twist" the only song, since time began, to become number one twice by the same artist. Oh yes, we're talking about the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. But lets face the truth. This is Nobel Prize Territory.
The "Twist" is very recognizable when you dance apart to the beat. But "The Pony", two on one side and two on the other side, the dance that I introduced in 1961 is the biggest dance of the century. They do it to everything, in the 70's, 80's, 90's and now 2000's. And what about my "Fly"? To explain it better, throw your hands in the air and wave them like you just don't care. If you "Fly" you automatically do the "Shake". From 1959 to this moment it's either the "Twist", the "Pony", the "Fly", the "Shake" or some other nasty stuff in between.
Please I urge you not to look upon my comments as self-centered, proud love thy self. This is not what this is about. Since I have such a unique situation in the music business, I feel only I can explain it. If the music industry knew or understood this reoccurring phenomenon, that's renewed every time the beat begins, they would have explained it through the decades. Yes, "Dancing Apart to the Beat" is Chubby Checker. Everybody is doing it everyday, every month, every year, since its discovery in 1959. Chubby Checker's given the music business something great. Now he wants his greatness returned.
I want my flowers while I'm alive. I can't smell them when I'm dead. The people that come to see the show have given me everything. However I will not have the music business ignorant of my position in the industry. Dick Clark said, and I quote, "The three most important things that ever happened in the music industry are Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Chubby Checker". Now I ask you. Where is my more money and my more fame? God bless and have mercy. You know I Love You.
Yours truly,
Chubby Checker
If all the people who have seen Chubby Checker perform through the years stood side by side they would encircle the globe many times over. And, no matter who among them was asked, there would be no question that Chubby Checker is the most dynamic, charismatic entertainer in he world today.
His ability to electrify an audience puts him in a class of his own. His showmanship, energy and charm captivates everyone, pleasing crowds of every age group. He spends an average of 300 days a year on the road, traveling around the world making audiences happy.
Chubby Checker exploded onto the music scene in 1960 and never looked back. Known as “King of the Twist”, Chubby Checker is one of the few entertainers who has successfully sustained a career over three and a half decades. He is as popular today as he was in 1960 when the Twist first came out. Chubby is a record breaker who has sold over 250 million records to date. This has placed him in then number 56 spot in record sales of all time. He is the only person on the planed who has had the same single record go number one twice in different years as well as the only artist ever to have nine double sided hit records.
Chubby Checker was born Ernest Evans on October 3, 1941 in Spring Gulley, South Carolina. He later moved to Philadelphia. As a teenage, Ernest found a job opening in a produce market on 9th Street in Philadelphia. When he applied for the job, Tony Anastasi who was the boss called him Chubby. Ernest said, “Who’s Chubby? I’m not Chubby.” Tony replied, “You are if you want the job”... and Ernest Evans became Chubby. Soon after that, Chubby found another job working in a chicken store. The man who owned the shop, Henry Colt, liked to set up a microphone so his young employee could sing songs of the fifties while people shopped. Coincidentally, Colt had a friend, Kal Mann who was a songwriter associated with the most recognized recording studio in the Philadelphia area.
So when Dick Clark asked Mann to write a song and recommend a singer for a musical Christmas card based on Jingle Bells, Mann suggested Chubby. While in the studio, Clark’s wife, Barbara walked in and said to him, “Chubby... Chubby Checker. You’re going to be Chubby for Fats and Checker for Domino.”
And Ernest Evans received yet another new name and became Chubby Checker for the rest of time.
A few months later, while still attending South Philadelphia High School, Chubby made his first record called “The Class”. Just before Chubby graduated from high school, the record company told him they had a song that had been done by someone else, but they wanted him to record it over again. The song was the Twist. It had been written and originally recorded by Hank Ballard in 1958 and had made a little noise, but was no hit record by any means. Chubby went in the studio and recorded the tune. Before Chubby graduated high school, the Twist was a hit and so was he. History was made. The music world had changed forever and would never be the same again. While Chubby is not the King of Rock and Roll, he is the king of the music business.
Top 40 Hits
1 (#38)...The Class-1959
2 (#1)...The Twist-1960
3 (#14)...The Hucklebuck-1961
4 (#1)...Pony Time-1961
5 (#24)...Dance The Mess Around-1961
6 (#8)...Let's Twist Again-1961
7 (#7)...The Fly-1961
8 (#1)...The Twist (re-release)-1961
9 (#21)...Jingle Bell Rock (with Bobby Rydell)-1961
10 (#3)...Slow Twistin' (with Dee Dee Sharp)-1962
11 (#12)...Dancin' Party-1962
12 (#2)...Limbo Rock-1962
13 (#10)...Popeye The Hitchhiker-1962
14 (#20)...Let's Limbo Some More-1963
15 (#15)...Twenty Miles-1963
16 (#12)...Birdland-1963
17 (#25)...Twist It Up-1963
18 (#12)...Loddy Lo-1963
19 (#17)...Hooka Tooka-1964
20 (#23)...Hey, Bobba Needle-1964
21 (#40)...Lazy Elsie Molly-1964
22 (#40)...Let's Do The Freddy-1965
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