Chubby Checker: Nobel Laureate...Huh?

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wha?

― fred solinger, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

link...huh?

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hey, here it is! has he lost his ever-twistin' mind?

― fred solinger, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dylan is enough of an outside shot as it is.

― Josh, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Dancing Apart to the Beat is the dance that we do when we dance apart to the beat of anybody's music..."

FUCKING CLASSIC. I'd give him a Nobel prize solely on the basis of that line.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

that's fucking awesome... finally, somebody who is absolutely sure they are the end-all, be-all top-shit-dog, and not afraid to admit it. Here is a man who wants his flowers NOW! Twist on, Chub.

― Andy, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Very funny, but also sad. Aren't megalomaniacs tragic? Chubby seems to forget that he didn't write "(Do) The Twist;" it had already been an R&B hit for Hank Ballard, the composer, before Chubby covered the song a couple years later--if I remember correctly. Still, the idea of dancing apart to pop music was revolutionary, as quaint as that idea might seem today.

― X. Y. Zedd, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oops--I read too fast and missed the crucial paragraph; Chubby is gracious enough to mention Hank Ballard (who died last year, I think). By the way, trivia buffs, did you know Chubby's real name was Ernest Evans until Dick Clark rechristened him fo "American Bandstand"? (No, I didn't google for that fact; it's just another ridiculous bit of information I have in my head, crowding out all those nice Shakespeare quotations.)

― X. Y. Zedd, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm desperately trying to fight back a mental image of Chubby "giving birth" to aerobics.

― Toby, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

perfect nuance to description of elvis' position in rock: "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."

'dancing apart to the beat' DAMN I wish I knew what that is.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What about the Leather Nun for the prize? "Let's fist again, fist and shout!"

― dave q, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

Twist pioneer Chubby Checker, now a rapper, seeks world record
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Singer Chubby Checker wants a new record — a Guinness world record.
Checker, who now goes by the name Chubby C to reflect his reinvention as a rap artist, vied for the distinction in a dance event Saturday sponsored by Myrtle Beach radio station WWXM-FM. Nearly 190 people took part as Checker played his 1960 dance hit The Twist.
“It’s so nice to be here,” he said. “This old eagle is laying some new eggs.”
As part of the event, at least 114 people did the electric slide and then 151 did the cha-cha. The crowd grew to 188 as dancers did The Twist while Checker sang his famous song.
The Guinness Book of Records currently does not have a category for the most people participating in a dance.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 April 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Chubby C? WTF?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 12 April 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

“This old eagle is laying some new eggs.”

My new catch-phrase.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 April 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

goes by the name Chubby C to reflect his reinvention as a rap artist

I guess that cover of The Twist he did with the Fat Boys gave him some funny ideas...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 April 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Old Eagle: New Eggs, understand?

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 April 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

eight years pass...

Chubby Checker sues Hewlett-Packard over app to measure penis size
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/feb/14/chubby-checker-sues-hewlett-packard?intcmp=ILCMUSTXT9385

― acid in the style of tenpole tudor (NickB), Thursday, 14 February 2013 12:47 (twelve years ago)

"Where is my more money and my more fame?" is something Aerosmith sometimes says when we encounter e.g. a backstage that smells like no-one's cleaned it since the Kennedy administration

― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 14 February 2013 13:31 (twelve years ago)

once did a sorta private party sponsorship thing with CC and he just twisted the hell outta the place. Very fun time.

― Even by Zales standards, that's sad. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 February 2013 16:33 (twelve years ago)

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