Believing Chubby Checker’s The Twist is an iconic pop song worth not just remembering but replaying, Ridgefielder Gary Lefkowith has remixed and remastered the song, which was re-released as a CD ...

Chubby Checker didn't think he'd live to see the day his hit song got knocked out of its top spot.

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 ...

Chubby Checker is heading to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but it wasn't always this way. More than 20 years ago, he famously protested the very museum that will now celebrate him. "Back in the day," ...

Not all old rock is classic rock. “The Twist” singer Chubby Checker did not make classic rock, and yet he might get into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. That’s just a silly idea and isn’t doing anything ...

“The Twist” by Chubby Checker was the first song to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on two different occasions. And, for many years, it was the biggest-selling single in U.S. recording history.

Checker laughs about that protest now. In an interview, he actually brings it up, chuckling, before anyone else can. But his worthiness is not a laughing matter. There’s an argument to be made that he ...

Chubby Checker, the legendary rock and roll performer who taught America to dance the Twist, will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In July, the Rock Hall awarded Checker his trophy at ...