Fun Music Information -> Chubby Checker
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Misspellings and other Alternate Names:
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Chubby Checkers, Chubby Checker & Bobby RydellBand Name Origins:
- A takeoff on the then-popular Fats Domino. Submitted by: Dr. Bristol
Performer Pseudonyms:
Also known as: Earnest Evans. Submitted by: A Mazzara
Also known as: Ernest Evans. Submitted by: Rick Clarke
Use a Song Title to Answer a Different Song:
Song & Band Name | Song & Band Name | Comments & Submittor Name |
| "Hey, Hey What Can I Do" | "The Twist," Chubby Checker | hamburger456 |
| "The Twist" | "Let's Twist Again," Chubby Checker | How about that! He makes a sequel to his own song! - Kathy |
| "The Twist" | "Let's Twist Again," Chubby Checker | how about that, he makes a sequel to his own song! - Kathy |
| "The Twist" | "Let's Twist Again," Chubby Checker | How about that! He makes a sequel to his own song! - Kathy |
| There are additional songs titles that answer other songs available. | ||
Add a Letter To a Song Title:
"Phony Time" originally "Pony Time"
Amber Malone
Change a Letter In a Song Title:
"Toe Twist" originally "The Twist"
Ingrid McCannless
"Sony Time" originally "Pony Time"
Edward
"Bony Time" originally "Pony Time"
Natalie Snortman
Song Parodies:
Original Song Name | Parody Song Name | Parody Author |
| "The Twist" | "The Mist" | malcolm higgins |
| "The Twist" | "The Tryst" | John A. Barry |
| "Let's Twist Again" | "I'm Pissed Again" | Airfarcewon |
| "The Twist" | "The Bris" | Stan Hall |
| "Limbo Rock" | "Bimbos Rock" | Alvin Rhodes |
| "Let's Twist Again" | "Let's Wrist Again" | Airfarcewon |
| "Limbo Rock" | "Writer's Block" | Michael Pacholek |
| "Limbo Rock" | "Akimbo Rock" | Lionel Mertens |
| "Limbo Rock" | "Bimbo Rock" | Michael Pacholek |
| "The Twist" | "The Wrist" | Airfarcewon |
There are additional song parodies available. | ||
Duets Not Yet Performed:
First Band/Song Name | Second Band/Song Name | New Song Name | Submittor |
| Like A Rock Bob Seger | Limbo Rock Chubby Checker | Like A Limbo Rock I'd like to see Bob do the limbo. | rocky |
| Soul Limbo Booker T & the MG's | Limbo Rock Chubby Checker | Soul Limbo Rock How low can you go? I don't know! | crazydon |
| Mama Tried The Everly Brothers | The Twist Chubby Checker | Mama Tried The Twist | Marian |
| When It's Nighttime In Italy,It's Wednesday Over Here the Everly brothers | It's Pony time Chubby checker | When It's Nighttime In Italy, It's Pony Time Over Here | Marian |
| There are additional duets that haven't been done yet available. | |||
Misheard Lyrics:
"The Twist"
Misheard Lyrics: Come on, little b****
And do The Twist. Original Lyrics: Come on, Little Miss
And do The Twist. | "The Twist"
Misheard Lyrics: Come in, the little b****
or Come on, little b****. Original Lyrics: Come on, let's twist.
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"Birdland"
Misheard Lyrics: We like Bert Lance
We like Bert Lance! Original Lyrics: We like Birdland
We like Birdland! | "Do The Twist"
Misheard Lyrics: Come on little b****
Original Lyrics: Come on little miss
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| There are additional misheard lyrics available. | |
Misheard Lyrics Story:
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"Birdland"
Misheard Lyrics: We like Bert Lance
We like Bert Lance! Original Lyrics: We like Birdland
We like Birdland! |
Story about this misheard lyric by: Frank When I first heard this back in the 1970's (and I think it was already pretty old then), Bert Lance was a member of then-President Carter's Cabinet and his name was always in the news. |
Songs That Open With Their Titles:
"Pony Time"
Opening Lines: It's pony time, get up Boogety, boogety, boogety shoo.
Comments: So, starts Checker's second #1 song (in spring 1961, and only other #1 besides "The Twist"). Again, Checker went back to introducing a dance craze for his second #1, this time, "The Pony".
Submitted by: Peter
| "The Twist"
Opening Lines: Come on baby let's do the twist.
Comments: So starts one of the most important introduction to a dance craze songs of the rock era. "The Twist" was a #1 for Chubby Checker twice (summer 1960 and winter 1962) and is the definite template as to how all other introduction to dance craze songs in the rock era would be done. But Chubby Checker did not originate "The Twist" (although he definitely popularized it). "The Twist" was written by Hank Ballard in 1958, and was originally released as a single by Ballard and his group the Midnighters (but didn't get very far). Checker heard Ballard's version and loved it and the rest became popular history, as well as legend.
Submitted by: Peter
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Song Title Space Change:
"Let's Twist A Gain" originally "Let's Twist Again"
Like maybe twist truth to extract some advantage?
Submitted by: U. Carrie Oats
Songs That Are Banned:
"The Twist"
In 1962, Catholic school students in New York are forbidden to Chubby Checker's version of "The Twist", by Bishop Burke, who considers it and other dance craze songs to be "un-Christian".
Submitted by: Peter
Song Title Acrostics:
LEM: "Lazy Elsie Molly"
LEM = Lunar Excursion Module
Submitted by: Meredith Corpening
