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 ...

Chubby Checker, a diminutive Fats Domino, sort of, came out with “The Twist” in the summer of 1960, just as I was starting college. It was in the nick of time for me, since I didn’t, or couldn’t, ...

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 ...

In 1960, Chubby Checker released a song called “The Twist” that changed the face of music forever and started a dance craze that still exists today. Fifty years later, the man is still twisting and ...

After six hours of school, as the Beach Boys sang in 1964, American teens had enough for the day, they hit the radio dial, turned it up all the way, and started to dance, dance, dance. Their dances?

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 ...

WILDWOOD — The Twist, the worldwide dance craze in the 1960s, is turning 50 years old and will be celebrated during the 7th annual Wildwoods’ Fabulous '50s Weekend Oct. 15 to 17. The weekend will also ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — 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 hometown. Chubby Checker performed Friday ...

Hank Ballard, the singer and songwriter whose hit "The Twist" ushered a nationwide dance craze in the 1960s, has died. Ballard, who was suffering from throat cancer, died Sunday at his home, friends ...