You should check out the history of television, and see what happened before Chubby Checker and after Chubby Checker did his 2:52 singing “The Twist” on “American Bandstand” (on Aug. 6, 1960).

“Back in the day,” Chubby Checker tells Billboard from his home in New Jersey, “I said, ‘I don’t want to be in the Rock Hall when I’m dead. I want to smell my flowers when I’m here.’ ...

Chubby Checker’s mother had a dream about an angel Checker looked to the divine for guidance. “So I said, ‘Mom, you know, you have a close hook up with the Lord.

And Chubby Checker, whose first single was a parody and whose very name was a facsimile, knocked the song out of the park. He dug into it with a teen’s enthusiasm, turing Ballard’s “ eee-yah ...

Chubby Checker headlines the Sigur Civic Center in Chalmette on Saturday, Aug. 14. “The Twist” hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart in both 1960 and 1962, a unique achievement.

Read more on CNET: Chubby Checker in twist over app The app, which was called "The Chubby Checker," was an unauthorized use of Checker's name and trademark, the lawsuit alleges.

Chubby Checker: Making 'The Twist' famous (continued) Released in 1960 by a 19-year-old baby-faced kid who was born in Spring Gully, “The Twist” went to No. 1 on the Billboard magazine charts.

Chubby Checker and The Wildcats, The Duprees, Jay Siegel’s Tokens and The Capris State Theatre New Jersey 15 Livingston Ave, New Brunswick. Tickets: $35-85, available online at stnj.org. Nov. 2.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- When Chubby Checker talks about the impact of his 1960 hit cover of "The Twist," it sounds like he's reading his own biography. The rock 'n' roll icon likes to refer to himself ...

No, Chubby Checker didn’t write “The Twist.” Nor was he the first person to record the tune -- both honors are held by Hank Ballard, who had a minor hit with the song in 1959. But Checker ...

“Chubby Checker was the man who memorialized all of these non-touch type of dances,” said Terry Stewart, president of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.

The actual Chubby Checker, whose real name is Ernest Evans, is suing Hewlett-Packard for half a billion dollars because, apparently, measuring genitalia is not what Checker does “if daddy is ...