PHILADELPHIA -- Fifty years to the day after the release of the hip-swiveling tune "The Twist," the man who made it famous celebrated the occasion in his home town. Chubby Checker performed Friday at ...

Chubby Checker can still twist like a champ! The '60s music icon, born Ernest Evans, is known best for classic dance hits like “The Twist,” “The Fly,” and “The Hucklebuck.” But decades after those ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Chubby Checker’s recording of “The Twist,” which spawned a dance craze that still permeates every style of rock ’n’ roll dancing out there today.

It’s not often that we get to talk to a legend, an icon, but last week, I had that opportunity. I interviewed Ernest Evans — we all know him as Chubby Checker. Chubby was to headline Joe Nardone’s “Oh ...

Chubby Checker will sing and dance “The Twist” in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. Checker headlines “Oh What A Night of ’60s Rock and Roll” at the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts, with artists of ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chubby Checker removes his overcoat, bends his knees slightly and slowly swivels his hips. Sign up here. The big guy is getting into it, lightly snapping his fingers, pointing his ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." Sign up here. It's that famous moment of discovery, spoken by telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell to assistant Thomas A. Watson, ...