Chubby Checker is forever immortalized in North Las Vegas on Checker Way. The street is appropriately a few blocks away from Twist Circle in a neighborhood near the corner of North Decatur Boulevard ...

Quick, who is the only recording artist to have five albums in the Top 12 all at once? It’s Chubby Checker. And that’s a surprise twist, because when you think Chubby Checker, most just think of one ...

“The Twist” by Chubby Checker was the first song to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on two different occasions. And, for many years, it was the biggest-selling single in U.S. recording history.

ATLANTA -- Despite many hits in the 1960s, 76-year-old Chubby Checker is well aware that one single song has defined his lengthy career: "The Twist." Over six decades of the rock era, the infectious ...

Make way for a cultural phenomenon. Then “come on baby,” as Chubby Checker sang famously, “let’s do the twist.” Twist again like they did in 1960 when Checker will punctuate the 64th Annual Washington ...

John Johnson Jr. and Joel Selvin with Dick Cami. St. Martin’s/ Dunne, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-58178-7 In the years just before a new dance called the Twist turned popular music around and created ...

He sang the No. 1 song of the 1960s and began a dance performed at millions of weddings. Chubby Checker created a craze in 1960 when he sang "The Twist" on the television show "American Bandstand"and ...

"The Twist" is back in vogue in D.C. but Republican lawmakers are fleeing the dance floor. Today, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is rumored to announced a plan dubbed "Operation Twist," in ...