Cashbox Interview with Chubby Checker

Interviewed by Mike Peace

Interviewing Chubby Checker(1) 6:16 minutes Interviewing Chubby Checker (2) 10:36 minutes Interviewing Chubby Checker (3) 6:50 minutes

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Chubby Checker is the stage name of Ernest Evans (born October 3, 1941), an American Rock and Roll singer best known for popularizing the dance The Twist with his 1960 song "The Twist". He was born in Spring Gulley, South Carolina, and raised in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended South Philadelphia High School with Frankie Avalon and Fabian. The wife of American Bandstand's host Dick Clark suggested the name "Chubby Checker" to Evans as a take-off on then-popular singer Fats Domino. In 1964, he married the Dutch Catharina Lodders, who was Miss Universe in 1962. Read More at: www.chubbychecker.com