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• REAL NAME: Ernest Evans
• BIRTHDAY: October 3, 1941
• BIGGEST POP SINGLE: "The Twist" (1960 and 1962)

• August 6: Chubby performed "The Twist" for the first time on American Bandstand.

• September 19: Chubby topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 1 week with "The Twist."
  from the LP Twist With Chubby Checker
  Billboard chart run: 11 - 8 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 4 - 5 - 5 - 3 - 4 - 24 - 29 - off
  Year-End Chart Position: # 7
  Rolling Stone: '500 Greatest Songs of All-Time': # 451
  VH1: '100 Greatest Rock Songs': # 73
  VH1: '100 Greatest Dance Songs': # 8

• February 27: Chubby topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 3 weeks with "Pony Time."
  from the LP It's Pony Time
  Billboard chart run: 31 - 15 - 9 - 4 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 4 - 11 - 15 - 23 - 30 - off
  Year-End Chart Position: # 7

• January 13: Chubby topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart (again) for 3 weeks with "The Twist."
  from the LP Twist With Chubby Checker
  Billboard chart run: 27 - 16 - 6 - 4 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 3 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 13 - 24 - 32 - off
  Year-End Chart Position: # 1

• Chubby hit the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with "Let's Do The Freddie."
  Year-End Chart Position: # 309

• July 9: Chubby hit the Top 40 helping out The Fat Boys on their version of "The Twist."
  from the LP Coming Back Hard Again
  ARC chart run: 37 - 28 - 21 - 19 - 16 - 15 - 30 - off
  Year-End Chart Position: # 159
  
  
  
  
  

Top Pop Singles:

1. "The Twist" 1(3) / 33 (1960 and 1962)
2. "Limbo Rock" 2 / 17 (1962)
3. "Pony Time" 1(3) 14 (1961)
4. "Let's Twist Again" 8 / 15 (1961)
5. "Slow Twistin'" 3 / 12 (1962)
6. "The Fly" 7 / 11 (1961)
7. "Popeye The Hitchhiker" 10 / 9 (1962)
8. "Hooka Tooka" 17 / 8 (1964)
9. "Loddy Lo" 12 / 9 (1963)
10. "The Hucklebuck" 14 / 9 (1960)
11. "Dancin' Party" 12 / 7 (1962)
12. "Birdland" 12 / 7 (1963)
13. "The Twist" (with The Fat Boys) 15 / 7 (1988)
14. "Twenty Miles" 15 / 7 (1963)
15. "Let's Limbo Some More" 20 / 8 (1963)
16. "Hey, Bobba Needle" 23 / 5 (1964)
17. "Twist Up" 25 / 5 (1963)
18. "Dance The Mess Around" 24 / 4 (1961)
19. "Let's Do The Freddie" 40 / 1 (1965)
20. "The Class" 38 / 2 (1959)
21. "Lazy Elsie Molly" 40 / 1 (1964)

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• "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" (1960)
• "Good, Good Lovin'" (1961)
• "Twsting' U.S.A." (1961)
• "La Paloma Twist" (1962)
• "Surf Party" (1963)
• "Black Cloud" (1963)
• "She Wants T' Swim" (1964)
• "Lovely, Lovely (Loverly, Loverly) (1965)
• "Hey You Little Boo-Ga-Loo" (1966)
• "Back In The USSR" (1969)