Chubby Checker -This Months Oldies Legend        

I was Born Ernest Evans on October 3, 1941 in Spring Gully South Carolina, later moving to South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While in high school I worked after school as a chicken plucker at Fresh Farm Poultry Store and at the Produce Market, where I would often entertain customers with songs and jokes as I worked. My boss, Henry Colt, was so impressed that he and colleague Karl Mann arranged for a private recording session for American Bandstand. It was there that Barbara Mallery, the wife of Dick Clark of American Bandstand, asked me what my name was. I replied "well my friends call me Chubby. Since he had just completed a Fats Domino impression  she asked "as in Checker"?

That little play on words ( Chubby Checker / Fats Domino ) got an instant laugh and from then on I was known as "Chubby Checker" and my first hit was "The Twist" which went on to sweep the nation and and reached #1 one in 1960. Favorite Solid Gold Oldies Chubby Checker is still actively performing and has a full  concert schedule for 2013.

Factoids.

• Chubby went to South Philadelphia High School and was a freind and classmate of Fabian Forte "Fabian" who also went on to show business success.

• Chubby Checker is the only artist to have 5 albums in the top 12 all at once.

• Chubby Checker is the only recording artist to have the same song be #1 twice - "The Twist"

• Chubby Checker is the only recording artist to have 9 double-sided hits.

• Chubby Checker formed a street corner harmony group when he was only 11 years old.