Happy Birthday Chubby Checker!
Happy Birthday Chubby Checker!Today is Chubby Checker's 64th birthday, and according to the Academy of Rock and Roll Science, Chubby has twisted to the moon and back seven times, and expended enough twistenergy to light up Times Square for a week in 1961, when it was what it was, and was pretty dark.
I think most people believe Chubby to be just the keeper of the flame of a cool, but short lived craze from the early 60's, but he, and the Twist were so much more than that, and he does deserve the music industry's beatification from the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
Chubby was one of a small handful of rock and roller's that kept the music from totally degenerating into a hideous pile of Paul Ankas, Bobby Rydells, and a bunch of other white bread heartthrobs that were popular between the deaths of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, The Big Bopper, the imprisonment of Chuck Berry (Mann Act...fell in with a 14 year old girl), Elvis entering the army and THOSE movies, Little Richard taking off the cloak of Rock and holy rolling for Jesus, and the breakout of the Beatles and the British invasion of the mid-sixties.
Rock was sick in 1960. And Chubby Checker brought to music an excitement, and new style of dancing, where couples could dance apart and swing like never before. Chubby helped keep the music together between the end of the original rockers and the onrush of the real 60's music. And he could do a mean folk song (see below)
He is far, far more than an oldies act. He is a cultural icon and deserves membership in the Hall Of Fame. It is to their discredit that he has not been invited into the club.Check out Chubby sometime if he comes to a town near you. He is a fine entertainer and even at the age of 64 can twist most people up and down until they can twist no more.
Long live the champ! Chubby Checker!I go crazy for twisting. Send me to 1961, and I'll be happy.
Enjoy Hooka Tooka, one of Chubby's great folk songs!
Joey "Hey Let's Twist Around The Clock" Postove
I think most people believe Chubby to be just the keeper of the flame of a cool, but short lived craze from the early 60's, but he, and the Twist were so much more than that, and he does deserve the music industry's beatification from the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
Chubby was one of a small handful of rock and roller's that kept the music from totally degenerating into a hideous pile of Paul Ankas, Bobby Rydells, and a bunch of other white bread heartthrobs that were popular between the deaths of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, The Big Bopper, the imprisonment of Chuck Berry (Mann Act...fell in with a 14 year old girl), Elvis entering the army and THOSE movies, Little Richard taking off the cloak of Rock and holy rolling for Jesus, and the breakout of the Beatles and the British invasion of the mid-sixties.
Rock was sick in 1960. And Chubby Checker brought to music an excitement, and new style of dancing, where couples could dance apart and swing like never before. Chubby helped keep the music together between the end of the original rockers and the onrush of the real 60's music. And he could do a mean folk song (see below)
He is far, far more than an oldies act. He is a cultural icon and deserves membership in the Hall Of Fame. It is to their discredit that he has not been invited into the club.Check out Chubby sometime if he comes to a town near you. He is a fine entertainer and even at the age of 64 can twist most people up and down until they can twist no more.
Long live the champ! Chubby Checker!I go crazy for twisting. Send me to 1961, and I'll be happy.
Enjoy Hooka Tooka, one of Chubby's great folk songs!
Joey "Hey Let's Twist Around The Clock" Postove
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